Director, Connectivity Specialist

Clear Street LLC•New York, NY

52d•$175,000 - $210,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Clear Street is modernizing the brokerage ecosystem. Founded in 2018, Clear Street is a diversified financial services firm replacing the legacy infrastructure used across capital markets. We started from scratch by building a completely cloud-native clearing and custody system designed for today's complex, global market. Our platform is fully integrated with central clearing houses and exchanges to support billions in trading volume per day. We've agonized about our data model abstractions, created horizontal scalability, and crafted thoughtful APIs. All so we can provide a best-in-class experience for our clients. By combining highly-skilled product and engineering talent with seasoned finance professionals, we're building the essentials to compete in today's fast-paced markets. The Connectivity team will be responsible for learning how various sets of infrastructure communicate with each other.. This can range from internal Clear Street connectivity, Client connectivity and Vendor connectivity. You will be exposed to all areas of the firm and work with Sales, Trading and Operations plus our engineering team. This role will sit within the Tech organization. The team works with third party service provider systems, Broadridge, FlexTrade and Nasdaq and we orchestrate technical solutions to aggregate data from those platforms that allows our stakeholders to utilize it for reporting, dashboards, regulatory responses and business decisions. As an experienced Connectivity Specialist, you will work with a team of passionate and highly collaborative engineers and the business to build and connect systems that service our clients. The candidate will be involved in Front to Back connectivity changes that impact our Electronic Trading and Prime Services team. This will be a client facing role with a lot of exposure across the value chain

Requirements

You have at least 10+ years of professional experience with Connectivity across different areas of a bank. This includes Front, Middle and Back office Connectivity.
You have client facing experience
You have experience Project Managing and can deliver projects on time and manage expectations if there are obstacles that cause the project to be delivered late
You are a self-starter with a sense of urgency and an eagerness to learn and explore new technologies as appropriate to solve business problems.
You are a strong communicator who can interact in a clear and concise manner with non-technical business stakeholders, product managers as well engineers.
You have the ability to troubleshoot and logically assess problems and determine solutions.
You have professional experience with FIX protocol with deep knowledge and understanding
You understand the post-trade process and how trades allocate, book, clear and settle
You have experience with SWIFT
You have experience with PB client portal and can walk clients through a demo
You have experience in the Stock Loan process and how locates are obtained
You are inquisitive by nature and a team player