ADE Support Analyst
New York, New York
New York City, New York - Onsite 5 days per week; must be local.
About the Role
Seeking a Contract Trade Support Analyst to provide front office technology support for Equities trading, middle office, and Compliance teams. The role supports mission-critical trading applications in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and requires onsite work in New York City five days per week.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct front office technology support to Equities traders, middle office users, and Compliance teams on the trading floor.
- Monitor trading platforms and FIX network connectivity to maintain system stability and availability.
- Diagnose and resolve real-time trading issues, including detailed investigations of compliance-related inquiries.
- Communicate major incidents, business impacts, and resolution status clearly to key stakeholders and senior management.
- Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from traders, ensuring appropriate tracking, prioritization, and transparency.
- Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications for vendor and internal development teams.
- Share end-to-end business workflows with Support and QA teams to improve regression testing and operational readiness.
- Maintain and continuously improve the knowledge base, support runbooks, scripts, and technical documentation.
- Collaborate across front office, middle office, Compliance, control functions, Support, QA, vendors, and development teams.
Required Qualifications
- More than 5 years of experience supporting mission-critical front office trading applications within Equities.
- Experience with U.S. Market Making, ETFs, Electronic Trading, Global Program Trading, and Convertible Bonds.
- Strong understanding of high-touch trading workflows, FIX protocol, OMS platforms, IOI processing, market data, and CTM flows.
- Experience with Tidal or other scheduler systems.
- Experience handling regulatory and compliance-driven requests and inquiries involving Reg NMS, Reg SHO, CAT, ACT, ORF, and TRACE.
- Proficiency with SQL querying, JIRA for issue tracking, and Microsoft Excel for operational analysis and reporting.
- Computer Science degree.
- Strong analytical, critical-thinking, troubleshooting, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical issues to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to build effective relationships and collaborate across front office, middle office, and control functions.
- Ability to work independently on complex issues and projects in a fast-paced, high-pressure trading environment.
- Highly self-motivated, dependable, accountable, adaptable, and reliable, with strong teamwork skills.
- Strong documentation and reporting capabilities.
- Must be local to New York City and available to work onsite five days per week.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with scripting and automation tools.