Trading Operations Analyst

Optiver • Chicago, IL

4h

About The Position

We're a small Options operations team focused on Operational Excellence across the trading desk. Our scope spans positions and bookings, reference data, recurring operational processes like corporate actions, and trading system stability. All of this needs to work reliably so traders can focus on markets. We sit between Traders, QRs, Developers and Application Engineers, and partner closely with them to identify and drive improvements. Optiver invests heavily in giving trading teams first-class access to the latest AI tooling. You'll have the environment and support to build agentic workflows that would be hard to replicate elsewhere.

Requirements

• A graduate or professional with up to 2 years of working experience, preferably with a degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent (STEM).
• Strong analytical mindset and problem decomposition skills.
• Solid Python skills.
• Curiosity about AI tooling and interest in applying LLMs or agentic workflows to operational problems.
• Good communication skills and comfortable collaborating with multiple stakeholders.
• Fluent in English.
• Interest in financial markets.

Nice To Haves

• Internship or prior exposure to trading operations or related fields.
• Experience thinking about automation and tooling at scale.

Responsibilities

• Own recurring operational processes end-to-end (corporate actions, expiries, early exercises, onboarding new underlyings).
• Build and maintain validation, reconciliation and monitoring for positions, bookings and reference data.
• Deliver automation and tooling in Python that removes manual work and scales our operational coverage.
• Apply AI and agentic workflows to operational problems.
• Drive larger improvement projects, sometimes owning delivery directly, sometimes representing trading on cross-team initiatives with Developers and Application Engineers.
• Coordinate with Application Engineers on incidents and system upgrades.
• Participate in an on-call rota.

Benefits

• A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 50 different countries.
• Training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, and fully paid first-class commuting expenses.
• Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and dinner, world-class barista coffee, in-house physio and chair massages, organized sports and leisure activities, and Friday afternoon drinks.
• Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level