Market Operations Analyst

Ocho People; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Health cover

Paid time off

Client exposure

Job summary

Ocho People is seeking a Market Operations Associate for Live Events in Belfast. The role covers real-time client support, market monitoring and collaboration with engineers and product leaders in a hybrid Belfast office, Thursday to Sunday shifts, with weekend work.

You will gain exposure to trading systems, market surveillance and data services while helping maintain a fair and orderly market and supporting partners across the firm's trading ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience.
• 1+ years' experience in trade support, middle-office operations or compliance within an institutional setting.
• Strong communication skills with attention to detail and initiative.
• Availability for a shift-based schedule (Thu–Sun) and on-call duties.

Responsibilities

• Develop expertise across trading systems, market functionality and interfaces.
• Support market participants on access, trading, clearing or data services.
• Synthesize user feedback and escalate critical issues to engineering.
• Monitor system integrity and maintain the trading environment.
• Maintain listed event contracts, including specifications and settlement terms.
• Execute and improve operational procedures across Market Operations.
• Design and maintain automation scripts for team use.
• Collaborate with Technology Operations, Product, Sales, QA, Compliance and Regulation.

Skills

Strong communication

Empathy

Adaptability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Market Operations Associate - Live Events (UK)

At a Glance

• Market Operations role at a high-growth prediction markets trading firm, Belfast (hybrid)
• Core exposure: trading systems, market surveillance, client and partner support, Python/SQL
• Shift-based schedule covering Thursday to Sunday, including weekend working
• Competitive base salary plus discretionary annual incentive bonus
• 1+ years' experience in trade support, middle-office operations or compliance welcomed. Would suit a recently qualified Graduate.

About the Company

Our client is a specialist prediction markets trading firm, operating at the frontier of financial markets in partnership with major institutional players. They are building the premier prediction market platform, empowering traders to take positions on real-world events and generating market-driven forecasts for decision makers. The engineering and operations teams are lean, highly skilled, and building infrastructure and processes that operate at genuine exchange scale.

The Role

As Market Operations Associate you will provide real-time support to clients and key internal stakeholders, helping to maintain a fair and orderly market and monitoring the stability of the firm's trading systems. You will work directly with clients, engineers, product managers and executive leaders to resolve mission-critical questions as they arise. This role suits someone adaptive, highly empathetic and motivated to learn, who takes the initiative to understand partners' priorities and guide their adoption of the firm's trading, clearing and data services. You will work in-person hybrid from the Belfast office, on a shift pattern that runs Thursday through Sunday, so weekend working is a core part of this role.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop expertise across trading systems, market functionality, order types and external interfaces
• Support market participants, including futures commission merchants, clearing banks and other industry partners on market access and trading, clearing or data services
• Synthesise user feedback and coordinate communications when escalating critical system issues to engineering
• Monitor system integrity and maintain control of the trading environment
• Maintain listed event contracts, ensuring accurate product specifications, trading parameters and settlement terms
• Execute and maintain operational procedures across the Market Operations function
• Design, build and maintain automation scripts used by the team
• Collaborate with Technology Operations, Product Management, Sales, Quality Assurance, Compliance and Regulation

What You'll Need

Essential:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
• 1+ years' experience in trade support, quantitative trade consulting, middle-office operations, compliance or system engineering within an institutional trading or exchange environment
• Disciplined attention to detail and the initiative to go beyond surface-level answers
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly pick up new concepts, for example beginner-level Python or SQL
• Availability and commitment to a shift-based schedule covering Thursday to Sunday, including weekends, plus an on-call environment
• Right to work in the UK on a permanent, indefinite basis (no visa sponsorship available)

Desirable / Nice to Have:

• Professional exposure to, or familiarity with, electronic trading or exchanges
• Python programming experience, for example writing simple scripts to automate manual processes
• Some ability to query large datasets and analyse results

Why Apply?

• Competitive base salary plus participation in a discretionary annual incentive bonus
• Pension plan with employer match, plus health, vision and dental cover
• Generous paid time off
• Front-row seat to real-time trading and market operations at a firm partnering with Robinhood and Susquehanna International Group
• Direct exposure to clients, engineers, product managers and executive leadership from day one
• Genuine career runway, with individualised training and milestone-based project work outside core shift coverage
• Inclusive, values-led workplace that welcomes candidates from all backgrounds