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Due to remarkable growth and new product initiatives, Trading Technologies wants to add a Head of IT to our Chicago office. This position will be responsible for leading our Internal technology and business systems department. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing our Internal IT infrastructure and ensuring the smooth operation of our business systems. They will also be responsible for leading a team of IT professionals, developing IT policies and procedures, and identifying opportunities for technology innovation and improvement.

What Will You Be Involved With?
  • Develop and implement the company’s Internal IT and business systems strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and objectives.
  • Oversee the management of the company’s Internal IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network systems, to ensure they are reliable, secure, and efficient.
  • Collaborate in the development and implementation of IT policies, procedures, and standards that comply with relevant regulations and best practices.
  • Develop and manage the IT budget, ensuring the effective use of resources and the delivery of cost-effective solutions.
  • Manage and mentor a team of IT professionals, including setting goals and objectives, providing feedback and coaching, and conducting performance evaluations.
  • Identify opportunities for technology innovation and improvement, including evaluating new technologies, assessing their potential impact, and recommending solutions.
  • Work closely with other departments to ensure that technology and business systems are aligned with their needs and objectives.
  • Monitor and report on IT and business systems performance, including uptime, security, and user satisfaction.
  • Ensure that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and regularly tested.

What You Bring to the Table
  • Develop and implement the company’s Internal IT and business systems strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business goals and objectives.
  • Oversee the management of the company’s Internal IT infrastructure, including hardware, software, and network systems, to ensure they are reliable, secure, and efficient.
  • Collaborate in the development and implementation of IT policies, procedures, and standards that comply with relevant regulations and best practices.
  • Develop and manage the IT budget, ensuring the effective use of resources and the delivery of cost-effective solutions.
  • Manage and mentor a team of IT professionals, including setting goals and objectives, providing feedback and coaching, and conducting performance evaluations.
  • Identify opportunities for technology innovation and improvement, including evaluating new technologies, assessing their potential impact, and recommending solutions.
  • Work closely with other departments to ensure that technology and business systems are aligned with their needs and objectives.
  • Monitor and report on IT and business systems performance, including uptime, security, and user satisfaction.
  • Ensure that disaster recovery and business continuity plans are in place and regularly tested.

What We Bring to the Table
  • Competitive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, FSA, 401(k), and pre-tax transit/parking
  • Flexible work schedules – with some remote work
  • 22 PTO (paid time off) days per year with the ability to roll over days into the following year, robust paid holiday schedule with early dismissal, generous parental leave (for all genders and staff, including adoptive parents) and backup child care as well as tutoring services
  • Company provided top-of-the-line tech resources and a tech accessories budget for monitors, headphones, keyboards, and office equipment.
  • Stipend and subsidy contributions toward personally-owned cell phones and laptops, gym memberships, and health/wellness initiatives (including discounted healthcare premiums, healthy meal delivery programs or smoking cessation)
  • Casual dress code and inspiring, motivating office environment
  • Forward-thinking, a culture-based organization with collaborative teams that promote diversity and inclusion through efforts such as TT Women in Tech and a committee dedicated to making TT a great place to work for everyone
  • The office is conveniently located close to various public transportation
Company Overview:
Trading Technologies is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes the Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.
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Trading Technologies (TT) is an equal opportunity employer. Equal employment has been, and continues to be a required practice at the Company. Trading Technologies’ practice of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train, promote and base all employment decisions on ability, rather than race, color, religion, national origin, sex/gender orientation, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other protected status. Additionally, TT participates in the E-Verify Program for US offices.

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Our corporate culture is innovative and fast-moving. Our talented employees, situated globally, innovate, develop, design, and support our TT products, leveraging the most cutting edge technologies up and down the stack. In this ever-challenging...

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August 5, 2023

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