Join the INTERACTIVE BROKERS Team!
Interactive Brokers has been at the forefront of the Fintech space for over 42 years and we pride ourselves on being primarily a technology company. We continue to challenge the status quo and push boundaries to offer the best trading platform with the most sophisticated features all for the lowest cost to our customers.
We are looking for IT Support Specialist to join our Technical Clearing Operations team. In order to provide the best online trading experience in the world, Interactive Brokers software, systems, and business technology must be maintained, monitored and supported across the globe 24/7. To achieve that goal, Interactive Brokers maintains a team of operations associates around the world to monitor and troubleshoot all issues pertaining to the clearing system. The operations associate job involves interacting with business and development teams to provide ongoing support to our automated systems, to provide an enhanced customer experience and to ensure that all systems are functioning properly on a daily basis.
As an IT Support Specialist your key responsibilities are to:
- Monitoring all aspects of the Interactive Brokers automated Clearing System.
- Analyze, address, escalate and resolve clearing system operational issues.
- Interacting with various departments within the organization to communicate problem status and resolution.
- Analyzing existing business workflows to develop new monitoring tools and automate process monitoring.
- Acting as a primary escalation point for all post trade technical issues.
- Working with our external vendors on connectivity, migrations, and new system setups.
- Maintaining optimum daily clearing system processing flows.
Qualifications, Skills, & Attributes
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business, finance, or technology
- Prior experience in the financial industry is a plus, but not required.
- Experience with Unix / Linux style command line interfaces
- Knowledge of UNIX operating systems, Shell Scripting, PERL.
- A keen desire to explore and learn new concepts, systems and technologies.
- The ability to analyze and solve problems promptly and accurately in a fast-paced changing environment.
- Self-starter who can handle a problem from start to finish.
- Effective communication skills written and verbal.
Company Benefits & Perks
- Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant
- Retirement plan (401k) with competitive company match
- Excellent health and welfare benefits including medical, dental, and vision benefits
- Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Paid time off and a generous parental leave policy
- Daily company paid lunch and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack
- Corporate events including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams
- Education reimbursement and learning opportunities
- Modern offices with multi-monitor setups
Company Overview
Interactive Brokers LLC, a subsidiary of Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (Ticker: IBKR) is a direct access electronic broker serving professionals, frequent traders, institutional investors, financial advisors and introducing brokers. Our clients have access to more than 150 market centers around the world from a single integrated account. Our employees are part of a dynamic, multi-national, fast-paced, results-oriented team that has spent four decades focused on advanced technology and automation that equips our clients with a uniquely sophisticated platform to manage their investment portfolios. We provide our clients with advantageous execution prices, risk and portfolio management tools, research facilities and investment products, at low or no cost, positioning them to achieve superior returns.
Headquartered in Greenwich, CT, USA. IBKR has offices in more than 15 countries across the world.
IBKR is a member of NYSE, FINRA, and SIPC. Interactive Brokers Group brokerage affiliates are regulated by securities and commodities agencies around the world.
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