Senior Brokerage Operations Architect

Aries.com; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Aries is seeking a Senior Brokerage Operations & Controls Analyst to own daily controls, reconciliations, and investigations across Aries and external partners. You will help design tools, workflows, dashboards, and scalable controls to enable growth without manual bottlenecks.

The role focuses on root-cause analysis, resolution, and building durable processes for a scalable brokerage operation. Strong data skills and cross-functional collaboration are essential.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in brokerage operations, clearing operations, trading operations, securities operations, or a similar broker-dealer function.
• Strong understanding of the U.S. securities trade lifecycle, including execution, clearing, settlement, and account servicing.
• Hands-on experience investigating position, cash, trade, settlement, or reconciliation breaks.
• Working knowledge of equities and listed options.
• Understanding of margin, buying power, settled and unsettled funds, corporate actions, trade corrections, exercises, assignments, and account restrictions.
• Strong analytical, reconciliation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to independently investigate complex issues and clearly explain what happened, why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again.
• Strong Excel or Google Sheets skills.
• Comfortable working with large datasets, operational reports, and multiple systems.
• Strong written documentation and attention to detail.
• Comfortable working directly with external vendors and driving issues through resolution.
• Interest in improving processes and building better operational tools, not just working an existing queue.
• Ability to provide coverage during U.S. market hours.

Responsibilities

• Own daily operational controls, reconciliations, and exception reviews.
• Investigate discrepancies involving positions, trades, cash, settlement, margin, buying power, and customer account activity.
• Resolve trade breaks, settlement issues, rejected activity, corporate action discrepancies, and other operational exceptions.
• Track outstanding issues through resolution and maintain clear documentation and escalation paths.
• Support complex cash movement, account servicing, restriction, and asset movement issues.
• Identify recurring operational problems and help eliminate them through stronger controls or automation.
• Help design and improve the operational processes used to run the brokerage.
• Build or help define dashboards, exception reports, reconciliation tools, and monitoring workflows.
• Partner with Product and Engineering to automate manual processes and improve operational visibility.
• Translate brokerage requirements into clear technical and operational requirements.
• Help define scalable workflows for new products, features, and operational capabilities.
• Develop procedures and controls that can scale as trading volume, customers, and product complexity increase.

Skills

Brokerage operations

Analytical thinking

Excel/Sheets

Data analysis

Problem solving

Tools

Apex Clearing

Sterling Trading Technology

SQL

CSV/JSON APIs

Job description

Aries is seeking a Senior Brokerage Operations & Controls Analyst to own daily controls, reconciliations, and investigations across Aries and external partners. You will help design tools, workflows, dashboards, and scalable controls to enable growth without manual bottlenecks.

The role focuses on root-cause analysis, resolution, and building durable processes for a scalable brokerage operation. Strong data skills and cross-functional collaboration are essential.