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Key Responsibilities:The Futures & Options (F&O) Client Enablement Associate plays a critical role in supporting electronic execution across Global Markets. This is a front office-facing position, responsible for enabling, onboarding, and supporting Futures & Options clients across the Electronic Trading and Client Connectivity stack.The role sits at the intersection of clients, trading desks, vendors, and technology teams, ensuring new and existing clients can access F&O electronic trading services reliably, efficiently, and in line with business requirements. The successful candidate will combine strong technical expertise with a service oriented mindset and the ability to operate in a fast paced trading environment.________________________________________Client Enablement & Connectivity

• Act as a primary point of contact for Futures & Options electronic trading client enablement, supporting both new client onboarding and existing client change requests.

• Gather and analyze requirements from clients, trading desks, and vendors to support new connectivity setups, business flows, and enhancements.

• Manage FIX certifications for new vendor connections and incremental business flows, ensuring timely and high quality delivery.

Testing, Change & Production Readiness

• Implement requested changes in pre production and UAT environments, coordinating and executing testing with clients and external vendors.

• Deploy daily configuration and connectivity changes across the Electronic Trading stack in line with business and change management processes.

• Perform proactive health checks and readiness monitoring to ensure applications and client flows remain stable and production ready.

Operational Excellence & Process Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives within Electronic Trading Client Enablement, with a strong focus on automation, efficiency, and operational resilience.

• Maintain accurate project level documentation, metrics, and production support procedures.

Cross team Collaboration

• Work closely with development teams to support new functionality, enhancements, and defect remediation.

• Coordinate with network and infrastructure teams to enable connectivity changes (e.g. firewall rules, ports) in non production and production environments.

• Maintain clear and timely communication with global project teams, providing transparent updates on progress, risks, and delivery timelines.

Trading Desk Support

• Respond to data requests and queries from Futures & Options trading desks.

• Support business users directly, demonstrating strong ownership and accountability for client issues and enablement outcomes.

• Project Management

• Work within and manage high level projects such as client connection migrations and client wide configuration changes.

**This is a hybrid role with onsite expectations of 3 days a week in either NYC or Chicago, IL

**This role has mandatory 5 days away per quarter

Basic Qualifications:

• A minimum of 5 years of industry experience or equivalent in FIX client onboarding, electronic trading connectivity, or client enablement.

• High School Diploma or GED

Preferred Qualifications: ?

• Bachelor's or Associate's degree

• Strong knowledge of FIX protocol FIX 4.2 and FIX 4.4 .

• Solid understanding of Futures and Options products and electronic markets.

• Experience working in front office or trading desk facing environments.

• Experience with UNIX Linux environments and shell scripting.

• Database experience e.g. Oracle Exadata, SQL Server, Sybase . Experience with the BTCS ULLINK and the Trading Technologies TT platforms desirable.

• Working knowledge of XML or similar markup languages.

• Familiarity with ITIL concepts, including Incident, Change, and Release Management.

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