Senior GCC Tech Analyst - Weekend support

Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Hybrid Working

Job summary

CME Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior GCC Tech Analyst to provide front-line support across Futures & Options, Cash FX, and weekend event contracts. You will analyze outages, assist with market data, and guide customers via phone and electronic channels, delivering advanced technical assistance on trading platforms and match engines.

The role emphasizes problem solving, strong communication, and a customer-first approach, with hybrid working and opportunities to influence policy and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in information systems, computer science or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in front office trade floor support, production/application support, and technical support.
• Experience with Bloomberg, Trading Technologies, and Eikon Refinitiv.
• Extensive customer-facing experience.
• Good grasp of full trade life cycle from execution to front and back office.
• Exposure to Grafana/Kibana/Putty/SSH/SecureCRT/Monitoring dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Develop ad-hoc queries and perform complex data analysis for data-driven solutions.
• Field customer inquiries related to market events, connectivity, and products.
• Decide appropriate actions to solve technical problems and escalation needs.
• Evaluate and monitor market activity and order flow for efficiency and anomalies.
• Conduct investigations for internal and external clients and articulate solutions to varied audiences.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Customer facing

Problem solving

Unix logs reading

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in information systems/CS

Tools

Grafana

Kibana

Putty

SSH

SecureCRT

Monitoring dashboards

Corvil

Wireshark

Splunk

Job description

This role is a Wed-Sun or Sat-Wed shift.

Description:

The Senior GCC Tech Analyst provides front-line support to customers of CME Group across all platforms and asset classes Futures & Options, Cash FX & Interest Rate products as well as the weekend events contracts. In addition, this analyst provides relevant investigation and analysis for any major outages to management and other business stakeholders. In this role, the Senior GCC Tech Analyst works regularly in a customer facing capacity to deliver informational assistance via telephone and electronic means. In this role, the GCC Tech Analyst will have passion for solving problems and delivering excellent customer service. The candidate will deliver advanced market and technical assistance for front-end trading platforms, post-trade, market data and match engine functionality. Successful candidates will possess a majority of the below Qualifications, Experiences and be comfortable with the Responsibilities.

Responsibilities will include and not be limited to the following:

• Develop ad-hoc queries and perform complex data analysis to create data driven solutions to support or change policy, process procedures and technologies.
• Field customer enquiries related to market events, connectivity, business technologies and products.
• Decides appropriate course of action when speaking with a customer, such as which actions would accurately solve their technical problem. Decides when problems need to be escalated to a higher-level resource.
• Evaluate and monitor market activity and order flow for efficiency and anomalous behaviour.
• Perform investigations for both internal and external clients - be able to articulate challenging and complex problems and solutions to a broad range of audiences.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in information systems, computer science a related field from a recognized university.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in front office trade floor support, production/application support and technical support.
• Experience with leading industry charting/news platforms and front ends, such as Bloomberg, Trading Technologies and Eikon Refinitiv.
• Extensive customer facing experience.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good grasp of full trade life cycle from execution to front and back office (STP/Murex/MT300) processing.
• Exposure to Grafana/Kibana/Putty/SSH/SecureCRT/Monitoring dashboards.

Experience:

• Advanced understanding and previous experience within electronic trading, production/operation support, and market analysis.
• FIX protocol/API connectivity knowledge alongside experience with trading GUI features to help with troubleshooting.
• Ability to read and understand user's Unix logs.
• Experience with raw market data.
• Experience with Linux/Unix commands.
• Experience with a scripting language (Python/Unix).
• Experience with SQL or any database (like Oracle or KDB).
• Ability to perform order tracing, order analysis and ability to identify latency/rejections/slippage/mismatch.
• The candidate must be able to demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Prior customer support experience via telephone and electronic means.
• Exposure to Corvil, Wireshark and Splunk is good to have.

Company Benefits:

• Bonus Programme
• Equity Programme
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Mental Health Benefit Programme
• Group Pension Plan
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Cycle To Work
• EV Car Benefit Scheme
• Gym Membership
• Family Leave
• Education Assistance - MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
• Hybrid Working

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