Markets Access Administrator

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

As a Markets Access Administrator, you will become the primary resource for administering our logical access to an expansive list of trading venues. You will be responsible for keeping centralized records of all connectivity, using that information to help guide support teams and manage firmwide risk. This involves working with our trading desks and in-house teams of developers, PBs and FCMs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage Exchange/Venue session and risk administration via customer portals, broker relationships, etc.
• Maintain internal session repository, normalizing attributes and data access the vast array of markets DRW participates in.
• Define operational runbooks to guide your teammates in an ever-evolving, fast-paced environment.
• Work with trading desks to optimize their fee liability.
• Manage trading venue ACLs.
• Interface with internal risk stakeholders.
• Analyze data from session repository and script data driven rules to enrich related platforms.
• Maintain catalog of execution capabilities across DRW entities and PB/FCM relationships

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience working with regional equity, futures, and options exchanges.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Proficiency with administration of exchange/market portals
• Understanding of differences in exchange protocols
• Familiarity with market colocation sites.
• Experience in scripting tools.
• Exposure to working with large data sets.
• Technical understanding of exchange order processing/matching and market data distribution topologies
• Understanding networking fundamentals like Unicast vs Multicast, IP subnetting/CIDR, and routing tables.
• Must be very detail-oriented and have strong organizational skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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