Locations:- Chicago, IL (within 50 miles)
W2 Candidates (minimum 12 month validity)
Hybrid/ Onsite: Hybrid
Note: min 6+ years of experience as a Risk Analyst.
Job Description
The FICC Risk support role requires someone who can work in high pressure trading environment and assimilate information from multiple sources quickly. The role requires a good problem solver, and someone who can adhere to strict procedures and guidelines which include incident, service request and change management.
Role Responsibilities
The following are key responsibilities fulfilled by a Risk MAPS Analyst (although not limited to):
- First point of contact for business requests and reported impact
- Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments
- Release implementation and post-release testing
- Build and maintain strong partnerships with business stakeholders, application development personnel, and infrastructure contacts
- Troubleshooting of complex systems issues
- Proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots
- Development of tools and driving efficiency/stability improvements
Responsibilities
The core set of skills that are needed in the role are:
- Comfortable leading daily technical change meetings managing global resources through the banks change process
- Report generation through presentation and analysis tools like: Tableau and MS Office
- Well-rounded understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
- Adherence to written procedures and policies for Change Management
The Ability To Develop Expertise Quickly And Independently Is a Highly Valued Attribute Of The MAPS FICC Risk Support Analyst. An Effective Analyst Commonly Exhibits The Following Behaviors
- The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
- An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and the environment
- An intuitive problem-solving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analyst’s diverse foundation of knowledge, skills and experiences
- The confidence, focus, and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for high-impact technology incidents
The core set of technical skills that are beneficial in the role are:
- Operating systems: Solaris, Linux, Windows
- Scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python, SQL (Intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, etc...)
- Grid computing and batch management
- Well rounded understanding of infrastructure disciplines (network, server, storage, messaging
Other Skills Required
- The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
- An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and their environment
- An intuitive problem-solving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analyst’s diverse foundation of knowledge, skills and experiences
- The confidence, focus, and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for high-impact technology incidents
Personal Skills - must be resilient and confident working in a high-pressure FO trading environment. Excellent communication skills essential. Leadership.
Python
Incident, Problem and Release management ITRS Enterprise monitoring. Experience supporting traders.
