Principal Systems Analyst

We are currently sourcing for a Principal Systems Analyst to work in Boston, MA!

The Team

The Wealth Trade Management Engineering group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for the Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced systems analyst to help with the design and development of next-generation trading analytics systems. This role is focused on helping build scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You'll collaborate across teams, work closely with developers and product owners, a variety of business and technology groups, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment.

• Become a subject matter expert for the applications that provide electronic trading analytics capabilities.
• Learn the electronic trading domain.
• Represent the development team in discussions with business stakeholders.
• Understand low-level details of the applications, understand source code, and be able to communicate how the application works to a non-technical audience.
• Learn new technologies and use GenAI tools to help understand and document source code.
• Be able to build architectural and system workflow diagrams.
• Gather data by writing queries (KDB/Q) and be able to drill into business scenarios by understanding data from a very large dataset along with the system architecture.
• Lead system design and translate business requirements into technical details while working with developers and product owners.
• Break down and manage work items (Jira epics and stories) for developers and QA.
• Facilitate discussions with different stakeholders on team initiatives.
• Support production and non-production environments and be able to answer inquiries from business support teams.

The Expertise You Have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 9+ years of Systems Analyst and Project Management experience.
• Prior hands-on software development experience.
• Experience in complex distributed systems, especially trading systems.
• Experience with SDLC tools like Jira, Confluence, etc.
• Experience with collaboration tools.
• Experience crafting architecture and system workflow diagrams using tools like Visio, Draw.io, etc.
• Data modeling and design background.
• Experience with SQL and working with large datasets for data analytics.
• Experience with applications in Linux/Unix environments and familiarity with user commands or scripting.
• Experience with cloud patterns and deployments, especially in AWS.
• Familiarity with AI developer-assist tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
• Experience in Capital Markets or brokerage systems, especially trading analytics, is a big plus.
• KDB+/Q experience is a plus.

The Skills You Bring

• Ability to understand complex, end-to-end systems and identify performance, scalability, or resilience bottlenecks.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a collaborative team environment.
• Self-driven innovation and comfort working with leadership.
• Willingness to support production systems and application releases, including occasional weekend support.