Trading Technology Business Analyst

Artisan Partners•San Francisco, CA

4h•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Trading Technology Business Analyst to elevate automation, controls, and quality standards across our global trading platform. This role sits directly alongside traders and engineers in a live market environment. You will play a central role in strengthening the infrastructure that supports portfolio implementation — ensuring trading workflows are transparent, systematically validated, and built to scale. The position requires strong investment domain knowledge, technical fluency, and the judgment to identify control gaps before they become production risk. This position offers meaningful ownership over workflow design, testing discipline, automation strategy, and production resilience across a global trading organization.

Requirements

2–5 years of experience in financial services, ideally supporting trading or front-office technology
Working knowledge of the trade lifecycle across equities and fixed income
Experience with order management systems (Charles River and/or Aladdin preferred)
Demonstrated experience writing structured requirements and executing formal test plans
Proficiency in Python for automation or data analysis; working knowledge of SQL
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in a fast-moving environment
Ability to operate independently and collaborate effectively with traders and developers
Professional maturity to challenge assumptions and elevate control standards
Comfortable challenging requirements or control frameworks when risks are identified

Responsibilities

Partner with director of trading technology and traders to translate workflow needs into clear functional requirements, validation criteria, and control standards.
Collaborate closely with developers through design, build, testing, release, and post-production stabilization.
Document and maintain end-to-end trading workflows, system logic, controls, integrations, and key dependencies.
Develop dashboards and reporting that provide transparency into workflow performance, validation metrics, and exception trends.
Create and execute structured test plans for system enhancements, upgrades, and integrations.
Lead user acceptance testing, including script development, execution oversight, defect tracking, and documentation.
Expand automated regression coverage for high-risk trading workflows in partnership with development.
Define and enforce release validation standards prior to production deployment.
Design and implement automated production checks to validate trade accuracy, workflow integrity, and data quality, reducing reliance on manual monitoring.
Provide production support, perform root cause analysis, and strengthen controls, documentation, and automation frameworks based on operational learnings.