Senior Trade Desk Specialist

Cboe Global Markets•Overland Park, MO

13d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Trade Desk Specialist role is served by experienced financial technologists who bring advanced subject matter expertise and take ownership of production-level operational oversight across multiple real-time low latency Cboe exchange trading platforms (e.g., BYX, BZX, C1, C2, CFE, EDGA, EDGX) and asset classes (e.g., equities, foreign currencies, futures, options). This role serves as an escalation point for complex, high-impact issues, solving problems, monitoring systems, and ensuring systems maintain a healthy state and troubleshooting when they are not. Senior Trade Desk Specialists act as a trusted liaison between stakeholders including global and regional banks, buy side firms, corporates, prime brokers, and vendors along with internal business and technology teams. A Senior Trade Desk Specialist works independently with minimal supervision, exercises sound judgment on matters with organization-wide and external impact, and mentors more junior staff. Individuals in this role regularly lead components of project lifecycles and directly influence the success of the team and the greater organization.

Requirements

High School Diploma, GED, Trade, Technical or Vocational School
FINRA Security Industry Essentials Examination (SIE) and Series 57 licenses required, or ability to obtain within first 3 months of service
At least 5+ years experience in a security related or technical support position, or a Master’s degree and at least 3 years of relevant experience
At least 3+ years with UNIX Shell
At least 3+ years with SQL
At least 3+ years with Agile Development Methodology

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s Degree preferred in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Business, Financial Services, Communications, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

Provide customers and sales support and training related to platform behavior, order processing behavior, market structure, and feature/functions.
Perform daily system checks and periodically review audit logs to verify system changes.
Monitor active production, disaster recovery, and certification/test environment systems and ensure Cboe platforms and systems are operating as expected.
Take direct action to resolve known issues.
Provide customers, regulators, and the business with live updates related to systems and trading issues.
Provide exchange platform support including equity listing process management; service cancel order requests; conduct clearly erroneous and obvious error trade reviews; support voluntary price adjustments; service clearing support requests; declare Self Help on away exchanges when warranted; execute real-time order routing changes; conduct futures settlement price verifications; service and support block trade and ECRPs; and monitor auctions/rotations.
Lead engagement with business associates, customers, and software engineers to define and design new features and functions, representing the team’s perspective on cross-functional initiatives.
Test changes to systems and platform functionality prior to deployment and work with software engineering team to resolve systemic issues that are identified.
Participate in internal and industry-wide weekend testing as needed.
Serve as the primary Subject Matter Expert across multiple areas critical to production operations support, mentoring, coaching, and training junior Trade Desk Specialists and other Cboe staff.
Liaise with vendors and operators of facilities supporting critical financial infrastructure.
Perform analytical functions to troubleshoot and explain complex technical and/or trading issues, conduct root cause analysis as well as impact analysis studies, and resolve customer issues for Cboe trading systems and other platforms related to Cboe’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). E.g. market data, order entry, web service APIs.
Participate in operational on-call support rotations as needed.
Utilize SQL to conduct data mining against databases, a UNIX shell to examine log files, or Cboe proprietary tools in support of gathering and analyzing data to provide reports to and service the needs of customers and business teams.
Update internal technical and operations procedures within the Operations team’s Confluence space.
Draft technical notices and updates to technical specifications.
Onboard new clients establish client access to platforms, provision new services, assist customers with establishing default settings (e.g. order entry, routing, entitlements, risk management) based on their usage of a given Cboe platform, and conduct API certification testing and support.
Regular attendance at the workplace in a traditional office environment may be required
Performs other related duties as required or requested.

Benefits

Fair and competitive salary and incentive compensation packages with an upside for overachievement
Generous paid time off, including vacation, personal days, sick days and annual community service days
Health, dental and vision benefits, including access to telemedicine and mental health services
2:1 401(k) match, up to 8% match immediately upon hire
Discounted Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Tax Savings Accounts for health, dependent and transportation
Employee referral bonus program
Volunteer opportunities to help you give back to your communities
Complimentary lunch, snacks and coffee in any Cboe office
Paid Tuition assistance and education opportunities
Generous charitable giving company match
Paid parental leave and fertility benefits
On-site gyms and discounts to other fitness centers