Job Purpose
As Product Development Analyst, you will be responsible for managing the reference data for ICE's energy, agriculture and financial derivatives markets and distributing that data across multiple systems to the trading and clearing platforms. You will be responsible for ongoing product maintenance as well as generating and executing deployment plans for new product launches, and you will serve as a subject matter expert and escalation contact for operations incident resolution.
Additionally, the Product Development Analyst will draft functional requirements for software enhancements to improve daily productivity of the team and serve as a stakeholder representing the configuration team on new derivatives market initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Create and execute workflow processes for reference data management
- Work within team to validate change promotion in production environment and configure change sets in non-production environments
- Investigate inbound data inquiries from external and internal stakeholders and escalate as needed
- Extract and analyze product reference data using different tools (SQL, Excel, etc.)
- Construct customized methods to update product reference data according to business needs
- Work with the project team and stakeholders to configure, test and deploy new products
- Assist project management with prioritizing, tracking, and improving the deployment of new product initiatives
- Assist operations with incident resolution
- Develop requirements and analysis artifacts including use-cases, activity diagrams, user-interface schematics, business rules, technical specifications, and process flow for ICE's derivatives reference data systems.
Knowledge and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Analytics, CS, MIS or related discipline
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Must possess excellent communication skills, written and oral
- General interest in markets. 2+ years of experience with banking, trading, clearing, or related industry highly preferred
- Basic PL/SQL knowledge preferred. Moderate or advanced skills a plus
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio) - Strong Excel skills required, experience with VBA a plus
- Ability to proactively identify, report, and attack risks to project delivery using principles of iterative management
- Demonstrates strong technical aptitude and understanding of how technologies impact delivery
- Must be results-oriented and self-motivated
- Ability to work independently and as a part of a team
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Ability to effectively facilitate requirements gathering sessions, reviews and issue resolution involving multiple stakeholders
- Ability to enforce change control procedures to ensure requirements changes aren't ad hoc and are realized by the release team and stakeholders
- Experience with object-oriented applications and relational databases a plus
- Experience with API development a plus
- Experience working on systems with high transaction volume management a plus
