Technology Solution Analyst (IT Business Analyst)

CME Technology Support Services Ltd; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Belfast seeks a Technology Solutions Analyst to join its global solutions team. The role involves providing technical analysis to enhance trade execution and post-trade systems, requiring 3-5 years of analysis experience and strong communication skills. The position offers a hybrid working arrangement and a comprehensive benefits package including a bonus program, employee stock purchase plan, and ongoing development training.

Benefits

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Hybrid Working

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical analysis activities.
• Performing impact analysis, test distillation, and functional design.
• Defining and designing detailed technical artifacts.

Skills

Analysis experience

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

Technical specification

Education

Degree in information systems or computer science

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Unix command line

Job description

Overview

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 provides technical analysis to drive the evolution and growth of CME's core trade execution and post trade systems, powering major electronic trading platforms across Futures & Options, EBS and BTEC markets. The team aims to continuously deliver new features while maintaining low-latency, highly reliable systems.

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

Core Technical Responsibilities and Delivery

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

Responsibilities

• Requirements Discovery and Definition: Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis activities, including 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 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, which may have differing levels of technical exposure. Strong facilitation, negotiation, explanatory, and influencing skills.
• Education: A degree in information systems, computer science, or similar; relevant experience may substitute for non-technology qualifications such as business and/or finance.

Highly Beneficial Knowledge

• 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: 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 (desirable, not required).

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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