System Analyst

Job Responsibilities: • Work as a Technical Lead / System Analyst, overseeing IT application development, maintenance, delivery, and infrastructure setup. • Lead requirement analysis for Equities trading systems (e.g., OMS/EMS, execution, post-trade processing). • Work closely with front office, trading desks, operations, and risk teams to gather and refine business requirements. • Translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications (BRD, FRD, user stories). • Provide domain expertise on market workflows: order lifecycle, trade execution, allocations, settlement, and reconciliation. • Define end-to-end functional solutions across trading platforms and integrated systems. • Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, data models, and integration frameworks. • Validate system design against business needs, ensuring scalability and regulatory compliance. • Collaborate with architects and developers to ensure accurate implementation of functional requirements. • Execute projects using both traditional (waterfall) and Agile (Scrum) methodologies. • Collaborate across application teams to manage and resolve operation process and technical dependencies. • Provide SME-level guidance on Equities trading workflows, including: • • Order Management Systems (OMS) • Execution Management Systems (EMS) • Market connectivity (FIX protocol, exchange connectivity) • Pre-trade and post-trade processing • Corporate actions, margining, and settlement processes • Act as the key liaison between business users and technology teams. • Facilitate workshops, requirement sessions, and solution walkthroughs. • Provide clear communication to stakeholders, including senior management and project governance forums. • Provide regular status updates on technical progress to the Project/Program Manager. • Work closely with System Analysts and Business Solution Specialists to gather, refine, and finalize functional and technical requirements. • Partner with Architects and Development Leads to ensure solutions aligned with enterprise architecture, security, and control standards. • Work closely with development and QA teams to ensure accurate delivery of requirements. • Support SIT/UAT phases, including test case validation and defect resolution. • Ensure traceability from requirements to delivery and testing. • Set standards for documentation, analysis quality, and best practices. • Ensure consistency across project deliverables and adherence to delivery frameworks. • Liaise with vendors on specifications, delivery, testing, and implementation. • Define system interfaces and data flows across trading platforms, middle-office, and back-office systems. • Ensure data integrity across trade lifecycle events. • Work with integration technologies (e.g., APIs, messaging queues, FIX) • Deliver and support systems for Group Retail-Wealth and Global Markets • Manage end-to-end testing between vendor systems and internal platforms. • Work with Change Management teams to ensure controlled and successful deployment of changes. • Collaborate with infrastructure and security teams to support implementation activities. Job Requirements : • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline. • Over 12 years of professional experience, including at least 8 years in software development, business analysis, system analysis, technology/infrastructure upgrades, and project or change implementation within the financial industry. • Hands-on experience with Equity and FX trading systems, market data platforms, SaaS/cloud implementations, and mobile application development. • Strong technical and platform expertise in Equity/FX trading systems, market data platforms, SaaS/cloud implementations, and mobile application development. • Hands-on experience with MS SQL Server, Oracle, Windows, Linux, shell scripting, messaging queues, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Java, J2EE, JSP/Servlets, FIX messaging, CORBA, React Native, iOS/Android deployment, DevOps tools (Jenkins, Bitbucket), monitoring tools (Splunk, Geneos), and scheduling tools (Control-M). • Skilled in setting up applications within newly provisioned environments, including network, storage, agents, databases, Aldon, Control-M, Splunk, Geneos, and other monitoring tools. • Experience establishing integrations with external systems, including interface systems, batch processing, and IBM MQ. • Extensive hands-on experience in system development, including coding, functional and technical specifications, and testing (totaling more than 8 years). • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure. • Proven experience in analyzing and implementing retail applications across multiple entities. • Experience in technology and infrastructure upgrades, as well as data center migration projects. • Experienced in end-to-end system implementation, from project initiation through to go-live. • Experience collaborating with security, network, infrastructure provisioning, and architecture teams. • Track record in upgrading and migrating end-of-life platforms to modern technology stacks. • Experience delivering large-scale, high-availability systems and complex project implementations. • Familiar with Agile and hybrid delivery methodologies, supporting iterative development and continuous improvement. • Strong software development background with comprehensive SDLC and documentation experience. • Results-driven professional with a strong focus on delivery outcomes. • Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle. • Strong problem-solving, analytical, synthesis, systems thinking, and solution design capabilities. • Over 8 years of leadership experience managing IT delivery teams. • Strong ability to engage and communicate with senior stakeholders. • Effective communicator with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. • Working knowledge of RFP processes, combined with full lifecycle project…