Belvedere Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm proudly headquartered in downtown Chicago. Our traders work hard to provide liquidity to the market through their market-making activities and are the masters of a diverse set of commodities, interest rates, exchange-traded funds (ETF), and equity index options. From the beginning, we began iteratively investing in our proprietary technology and committing to building our systems from the ground up. Our trading models and software systems are continually re-engineered, optimized, and maintained to stay on top of the industry. This wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated efforts of our technology teams who utilize and perfect our innovative technology solutions.
High-performance proprietary development is the source of our success and competitive advantage at Belvedere, further fueling our passion for performance. We are a team driven by intellectual curiosity, seeking answers that will change not only how we trade in this technological age, but also the future landscape of the trading industry. We place a high premium on defining, developing, and deploying high-performance trading software using a team-based, holistic development approach. We look for passionate team members that excel and their contribution is critical to our continued success.
Belvedere is looking for someone passionate about delivering the high-quality and reliable data that our business depends on. You will be instrumental in working with end users to develop and refine data pipelines, dashboards, and operational processes. You will be challenged to pick up industry knowledge and technical skills to expand your capabilities.
You must be ready to dig deeply into complex problems, adapt to changes in technologies and business requirements, and voice your perspective on improving the team experience and outcomes.
What you’ll do
- Design and operate the analytics and pipelines for the metrics and dashboards that drive critical decisions across the firm
- Act as a centralized resource for data requests by understanding what data is available and how to retrieve it
- Set expectations on effort and complexity for introducing new pipelines and data sources
- Implement requests for both Trading and Technology metrics and analyses
- Work with stakeholders to iterate through analyses to find issues and improvements in their data platform use
- Monitor and proactively resolve performance and quality issues in continuous pipelines and processes
- Collaborate with Data Engineers to improve legacy processes and roll out new capabilities
- Set time aside to learn more about our data, quantitative analysis, and existing dashboards to deepen your understanding of our business and industry
- Ensure quality and integrity via automation and manual review
- Develop a working mastery of our data sources through efficient querying and self-learning
What you’ll do
- 2 years of experienced preferred
- Proficiency with SQL and data models (other query languages a plus)
- Experience operating and supporting data orchestration tools like Airflow, Dataform, etc.
- Exposure to working in modern cloud data warehouses and tools
- Experience with data visualization tools, especially Power BI or Looker
- Comfort using or learning to use development languages and tools, esp. Python
- Attention to detail and curiosity to understand data
- Unrelenting desire to get to the bottom of the problem and get it right
- Excellent verbal and written communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Passionate about providing quality support for pipelines and users during working hours
- A desire to work in a fast-paced environment
Core Values
The secret to our award-winning culture is our Core Values: Team Belvedere, Me In Team, Own It, Iterative Innovation, and Passionate Discourse. We live and breathe these values every day.
Our Stance
Belvedere is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a non-discriminatory employment environment for its employees. Discrimination against employees and applicants due to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, military, and veteran status is prohibited. Belvedere encourages initiatives to increase diversity and provide equal opportunity to all applicants and employees. Belvedere is committed to providing a positive environment in which team members are treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy. Our firm believes in a dynamic culture of inclusion and diversity, where people thrive on individual and organizational characteristics, values, experiences, and backgrounds.
Please note that Belvedere Trading does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Any unsolicited resumes will become the property of Team Belvedere. No phone calls, please.
Through our efforts to provide a safe environment for you and our team members, all interviews for this position will be conducted virtually via phone or video. We will continue to actively hire and onboard new team members virtually through the remainder of the year unless otherwise noted. Any questions regarding the virtual recruiting process, please reach out to recruiting@belvederetrading.com.
Work Schedule: Regular and reliable attendance during standard business hours with the ability to be on-site prior to the start of business on occasion
Amount of Travel Required: None
Sponsorship: Not available for this position
