Principal Systems Analyst

Dexian; Massachusetts; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Dexian is seeking an experienced Principal Systems Analyst to join our remote, long-term contracting team supporting electronic trading analytics for a Capital Markets client. The role focuses on designing scalable, low-latency trading infrastructure, collaborating with developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into practical technical designs.

You will drive architecture discussions, model data flows, and oversee production and non-production

Qualifications

• 9+ years of Systems Analyst and Project Management experience.
• Hands-on software development experience.
• Experience in complex distributed systems, especially trading systems.
• Experience in SDLC tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experience in Linux/Unix environments and scripting.
• Experience in AWS cloud patterns and deployments.
• Familiarity with AI developer assist tools and CI/CD tools.
• Capital Markets or trading analytics experience is a big plus.
• KDB+/Q experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Become a subject matter expert for electronic trading analytics applications.
• Lead system design and translate business requirements to technical details.
• Gather data by writing queries (KDB/Q) and analyze large data sets.
• Represent the development team in discussions with business stakeholders.
• Build architectural and system workflow diagrams.
• Break down and manage work items (JIRA epics and stories) for developers and QA.
• Support production and non-production environments and assist business support teams.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Team collaboration

Self-driven innovation

Production support experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Visio

Draw.io

KDB+/Q

CI/CD tools

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Job Title: Principal Systems Analyst,

Location: 100% Remote

Long term contract with extension

Our client's group is responsible for building world-class electronic trading solutions for client's Capital Markets division. We are a high-performing, fast-paced technology team working with cutting-edge tools to deliver low-latency, high-throughput trading platforms. Our work spans across internal and external teams to build seamless, end-to-end electronic trading workflows.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced systems analyst to help with the design and development of next-generation trading analytics systems. This role is focused on helping build scalable, resilient, and high-performance trading infrastructure. You'll collaborate across teams, work closely with developers and product owners, variety of business and technology groups, and drive innovation in a mission-critical environment.

• Become a subject matter expert for the applications that provide electronic trading analytics capabilities.
• Learn the electronic trading domain
• Represent the development team in discussions with business stakeholders
• Understand low level details of the applications, understand source code, be able to communicate how the application works to non-technical audience
• Learn new technologies and use GenAI tools to help understand and document source code
• Be able to build architectural and system workflow diagrams
• Gather data by writing queries (KDB/Q) and be able to drill into business scenarios by understanding data from a very large data set along with the system architecture
• Lead system design, translate business requirements to technical details working with developers and product owners
• Breakdown and manage the work items (JIRA epics and stories) for developers and QA
• Facilitate discussions with different stakeholders on team initiatives
• Support production and non-production environments, be able to answer inquiries from the business support teams

The Expertise You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 9+ years of Systems Analyst and Project Management experience
• Prior hands‑on software development experience
• Experience in complex distributed systems, especially trading systems
• Experienced in SDLC tools like JIRA, Confluence, etc.
• Experienced in collaboration tools
• Experienced in crafting architecture and system workflow diagrams, using tools like Visio, Draw.io, etc
• Data modeling and design background
• Experienced in SQL and worked on large data sets for data analytics
• Experience in applications on Linux/Unix environments and experienced in user commands or scripting
• Experience in cloud patterns and deployments especially in AWS
• Familiarity with AI developer assist tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, Artifactory, and uDeploy.
• Experience in Capital Markets or Brokerage systems, especially trading analytics is a big plus
• KDB+/Q experience is a plus

The Skills You Bring:

• Ability to understand complex, end-to-end systems and identify performance, scalability, or resilience bottlenecks.
• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and thrive in a collaborative team environment.
• Self-driven innovation and comfort working with leadership.
• Willingness to support production systems and applications releases, including occasional weekend support.

Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority‑owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting‑edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.

Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory‑changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit https://dexian.com/.

Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.