Technology Solution Analyst (IT Business Analyst)

CME Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in Belfast seeks a Technology Solutions Analyst to enhance core trade systems. You will collaborate with diverse teams to deliver innovative solutions and ensure high performance. Candidates should have 3-5 years of analysis experience and a relevant degree. This role offers extensive company benefits and a hybrid working model.

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

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of analysis experience in business systems or quality assurance.
• Experience in product development and Agile methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Support elicitation and technical business analysis activities.
• Perform impact analysis and logical design.
• Contribute to product vision and technical specifications.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Business Systems Analysis

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Agile Methodologies

Education

Degree in Information Systems or Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

RESTful APIs

Unix

Job description

Technology Solutions Analyst (IT Business Analyst)

The CME markets technology portfolio seeks a Technology Solutions Analyst to join the global solutions and architecture team. This role is vital for providing the technical analysis necessary to drive the evolution and growth of CME's core trade execution and post trade systems. These systems power major electronic trading platforms across Futures & Options, EBS and BTEC markets. The mission of the team is to continuously deliver new features while maintaining systems that are both low latency and demonstrate high reliability.

This role will involve working closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development, Testing and Architecture stakeholders to provide creative solutions that meet the functional business needs whilst strictly maintaining the required performance profile, along with other non-functional requirements.

Core Technical Responsibilities and Delivery

The Technology Solution Analyst performs essential execution delivery activities aimed at empowering the team to deliver. The primary goal is to create shared understanding and pressure test ideas as new features are prepared for production.

Typical Responsibilities include:

• Requirements Discovery and Definition: Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis activities, including performing project analysis work such as detailed requirement build out and user story analysis.
• Execution Delivery: Performing impact analysis, scenario creation, test distillation, functional design, and logical design.
• Technical Specification: Defining and designing detailed technical artifacts, including messaging protocols, data and mapping specifications, and solution interfaces.
• Application Design: Discovering, defining, and designing detailed application behaviors, logic, data modelling, flows, and mappings between components for either front‑end or back‑end systems.
• Product Vision: Contributing to the product vision and impact assessment for both new projects and enhancements.
• Knowledge Management: Contributing to and managing an ever‑evolving knowledge base.

Required Experience and Skills

• Experience: 3‑5 years of analysis experience in areas such as business systems, quality assurance, or architecture.
• Methodology: Experience in product development, SDLC, and Agile methodologies and practices.
• Project History: Prior experience in supporting and implementing technology‑based projects.
• Communication and Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication abilities. The ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels of the organization, external customers, and vendors, all of which may have differing levels of technical exposure. The role requires great facilitation, negotiation, explanatory, and influencing skills.
• Education: A degree in information systems, computer science, or similar, though relevant experience may substitute particularly for non‑technology qualifications such as business and/or finance.
• Highly beneficial knowledge includes:
  • Industry Experience: Experience in Financial Markets, such as Futures, Options, Cash, OTC, exchange‑based, FCM, brokerage, middle and back office, private equity, or proprietary trading.
  • Financial Technology: Knowledge of financial products, electronic trading, order management, market data, clearing, or post‑trade processing.
  • Technical Environment: (All of the following are desirable, not required) Unix command line, virtual machines, cloud computing experience/exposure, relational databases, NoSQL databases, Protocols (e.g., FIX/P, WebSocket, SBE, TCP, UDP), Messaging Middleware (e.g., Kafka, Tibco FTL, PubSub), RESTful APIs, XML, JSON, ProtoBuf, JIRA, FIGMA, Confluence, Splunk.

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

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

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