Technology Solutions Analyst I

The CME Post Trade and Risk analysis team is looking for a Technology Solution Analyst to join the global Technology solutions and architecture team. The team is responsible for providing technical analysis that drives the evolution and growth of CMEs post trade and risk systems. Our systems need to be both low latency and have high reliability while continuously delivering new features. The role will collaborate with the business, operations, development, and testing teams to provide creative solutions that meet the needs of our business and maintain our performance profile. The analyst will perform execution delivery activities like impact analysis, requirements discovery, scenario creation, test distillation, data mapping and modeling, functional and logical design, as well as any other activity that empowers the team to deliver. Our primary goal is to create shared understanding and pressure test ideas while getting new features ready for production.
The ideal candidate:

• Consistently demonstrates positive energy and strong work ethic by getting things done
• Is the type of person people are naturally drawn to and enjoy working with
• Embodies high ethical character and makes good decisions

Typical responsibilities:

• Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis activities
• Performing project analysis work such as detailed requirement build out, user story analysis, and messaging/interface specifications
• Contributing to the product vision and impact assessment for new projects and enhancements
• Developing acceptance criteria to support our automated testing and behavior driven development (BDD)
• Establishing trusted working relationships with your stakeholders, delivery teams and sponsors
• Creating data design, flows and mappings between components
• Partnering with DEV and QA on solution assessment and validation
• Contributing to and managing an ever-evolving knowledge base

Youd be a good fit if you have:

• 1-3 years of business systems analysis, architecture, or related experience
• Experience in product development, SDLC, Agile methodologies and practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Prior experience in supporting and implementing technology based projects
• The ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organization as well as external customers and vendors
• Great facilitation, negotiation and influence skills
• Excellent problem solving thought process and mentality
• A degree in business, information systems, computer science or similar. Relevant experience could also substitute

Great, but not required:

• Experience in Financial Markets (e.g. Futures, Options, Cash, OTC, exchange-based, FCM, brokerage, middle and back office, private equity, proprietary trading)
• Knowledge of financial products, electronic trading, order management, market data, clearing, or post-trade processing
• Understanding of acceptance test driven development (ATDD), behavior driven development (BDD) or domain specific language (DSL) automated testing
• Experience with visual modeling, message design + flow, process modeling, and/or data modeling tools (FIX, SBE, GPB, FAST, XML)
• Knowledge of relational databases, XML, JSON, object oriented programming languages, cloud based integrations and tools
• Prior experience using Atlassian products (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)