Technology Solution Analyst (IT Business Analyst)
CME Group – Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Overview
The CME markets technology portfolio seeks a Technology Solutions Analyst to join the global solutions and architecture team. The role is pivotal for providing the technical analysis necessary to drive the evolution and growth of CME’s core trade execution and post‑trade systems that power major electronic trading platforms across Futures & Options, EBS and BTEC markets. The mission is to continuously deliver new features while maintaining systems that are both low‑latency and highly reliable.
Core Responsibilities
* Requirements Discovery and Definition: Support elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis activities, including detailed requirement build‑out and user story analysis.
* Execution Delivery: Perform impact analysis, scenario creation, test distillation, functional design, and logical design.
* Technical Specification: Define and design detailed technical artifacts, including messaging protocols, data and mapping specifications, and solution interfaces.
* Application Design: Discover, define, and design detailed application behaviours, logic, data modelling, flows, and mappings between components for both front‑end and back‑end systems.
* Product Vision: Contribute to the product vision and impact assessment for new projects and enhancements.
* Knowledge Management: Contribute to and manage an evolving knowledge base.
Required Experience & Skills
* Experience: 3‑5 years of analysis experience in business systems, quality assurance, or architecture.
* Methodology: Experience with product development, SDLC, and Agile methodologies and practices.
* Project History: Prior experience supporting and implementing technology‑based projects.
* Communication & Collaboration: Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, negotiation, explanatory, and influencing skills. Ability to work with individuals at all levels, including external customers and vendors.
* Education: A degree in information systems, computer science, or similar; relevant experience may substitute.
Highly Beneficial Knowledge
* Industry Experience: Financial markets experience (Futures, Options, Cash, OTC, exchange‑based, FCM, brokerage, middle & back office, private equity, or proprietary trading).
* Financial Technology: Knowledge of financial products, electronic trading, order management, market data, clearing, or post‑trade processing.
* Technical Environment: Unix command line, virtual machines, cloud computing, relational and NoSQL databases, protocols (FIX/P, WebSocket, SBE, TCP, UDP), messaging middleware (Kafka, Tibco FTL, PubSub), RESTful APIs, XML, JSON, ProtoBuf, JIRA, FIGMA, Confluence, Splunk.
Benefits
* Bonus Programme
* Equity Programme
* Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
* Private Medical and Dental Coverage
* Income Protection
* Life Assurance
* Cycle To Work
* Family Leave
* Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
* Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
* Hybrid Working
Equal Opportunity Employer
At CME Group, we embrace the unique experiences and skills of our employees, ensuring that everyone’s perspectives are acknowledged and valued. We consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.
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