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Locations: Chicago IL (within 50 miles)
W2 Candidates (minimum 12 month validity)
Hybrid/ Onsite: Hybrid
Note: min 6 years of experience as a Risk Analyst.
Job description:
The FICC Risk support role requires someone who can work in high pressure trading environment and assimilate information from multiple sources quickly. The role requires a good problem solver and someone who can adhere to strict procedures and guidelines which include incident service request and change management.
Role Responsibilities:
The following are key responsibilities fulfilled by a Risk MAPS Analyst (although not limited to):
First point of contact for business requests and reported impact
Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments
Release implementation and postrelease testing
Build and maintain strong partnerships with business stakeholders application development personnel and infrastructure contacts
Troubleshooting of complex systems issues
Proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots
Development of tools and driving efficiency/stability improvements
Responsibilities:
The core set of skills that are needed in the role are:
Comfortable leading daily technical change meetings managing global resources through the banks change process
Report generation through presentation and analysis tools like: Tableau and MS Office
Wellrounded understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
Adherence to written procedures and policies for Change Management
The ability to develop expertise quickly and independently is a highly valued attribute of the MAPS FICC Risk support analyst. An effective analyst commonly exhibits the following behaviors:
The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and the environment
An intuitive problemsolving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analysts diverse foundation of knowledge skills and experiences
The confidence focus and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for highimpact technology incidents
The core set of technical skills that are beneficial in the role are:
Operating systems: Solaris Linux Windows
Scripting languages: Unix Shell Perl Python SQL (Intermediate level: multitable joins grouping results etc...)
Grid computing and batch management
Well rounded understanding of infrastructure disciplines (network server storage messaging
Other skills required:
The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and their environment
An intuitive problemsolving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analysts diverse foundation of knowledge skills and experiences
The confidence focus and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for highimpact technology incidents
Personal Skills must be resilient and confident working in a highpressure FO trading environment. Excellent communication skills essential. Leadership.
Python
Incident Problem and Release management ITRS Enterprise monitoring. Experience supporting traders.
Full Time