Campus: Technical Operations Analyst (2020 Start)
Optiver's Technical Operations team works closely with the Trading, Development, and Operations teams in an effort to keep a healthy balance between risk and reward in our production trading systems, while still facilitating consistent technical advancement. We firmly believe in balancing a safe, orderly production environment with profitability and sustainable growth.
As the Technical Operations Analyst, you will help us achieve that goal. You will be trusted to handle a broad suite of tasks across all facets of the business. The person we seek is always mindful of risk yet still able to facilitate fast-paced innovation across the firm. If you are interested in gaining experience with both the business and technical sides of a market making trading firm, this role will provide that opportunity.
What you’ll do:
- Manage multiple operational tasks to facilitate trading, including administration of trading access rights and 3rd party access privileges during the on-boarding and off-boarding process
- Facilitate connectivity requirements with various exchanges and 3rd party vendors
- Coordinate fire drill testing of various operational procedures
- Help to manage all technical changes taking place in the environment and gauge the level of risk associated with the daily changes
- Investigate technical incidents to understand and identify the root cause and proper follow-up actions
- Track and analyze daily incidents and trends and work with development, operations, and trading to implement short and long term fixes
- Provide feedback on the state of technical operations/operational risks to management on a regular basis
- Work closely with Compliance, Risk, and Back Office to review new trading initiatives, new products, and strategies
- Work in tandem with Trading, Development, and Operations teams to drive critical cross-team projects to completion
- Drive risk based initiatives across the firm to understand and mitigate automated risks, operational risks and cyber risks through a number of controls and disaster recovery planning
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- The ability to multitask and drive several technical projects simultaneously
- Risk awareness and the ability to identify imminent risks
- A high aptitude for understanding how technical applications interact with one another
- Ability to work autonomously
- Strong communication skills
- Strong organizational and analytical skills
- High attention to detail
- Knowledge of financial exchanges and financial instruments is preferred
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for
- employment authorization for this job opening
Who we are:
Optiver is a leading global electronic market maker specializing in pricing, execution and risk management. Working together, our traders and software engineers design proprietary systems and execute strategies to provide liquidity and increase market efficiencies.
Put simply, we improve the markets. That’s not merely an aspiration, but our reason for being. It requires intelligence, obviously. But in this industry, that’s table stakes. We’re seeking traders, software engineers and interns who up the ante with nerve, with guts and, most importantly, with heart. We’re looking for the bold. Does that describe you? Then opt in.
*We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to the Technical Operations Analyst position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can reapply once the next recruitment season begins in 2020.