Hiring: Trading Application Specialist Company: DRW Location: Chicago, IL Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:12:00 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Derivatives, Equities, Fixed Income, Risk Management, Vendor Management About the job Experience: •Operational familiarity with Ai-native toolkits to ingest and analyze trading data •Knowledge of the trading industry, particularly covering a breadth of trading strategies •Knowledge of execution, market data and risk management terminology and concepts •A background of working with order and execution management systems (OMS/EMS), either through Front Office, Front Office IT, or vendor/third party roles facing these teams •Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple, unrelated requests from the business in a short timeline Required Skills: •Contribute to the build out of analytical dashboards to track and compare vendor and counterparty performance based on established industry metrics •Initiate and maintain communication with vendors representing queries, requests and issues on behalf of DRW that fall outside of the scope of front-line production support duties •Provide analysis to the business regarding platform options to support new trading opportunities, including analysis of cost, feature set and support requirements •Traders and Portfolio Managers •Trade messaging support (FIX, API) •Back Office (Accounting/Investment Book of Record) •Project Managers and Business Management •Provide platform demos to potential users, focusing on their specific trade Compensation: •$150,000 - $200,000 / year •We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!