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Princeton, New Jersey

We are currently seeking Full Stack Application Developer with deep expertise in Java, web, and database technologies. As a full stack Java Application developer of the Business Systems Development team, you will participate in designing, developing and implementing exchange systems that directly support trading, help desk, surveillance, clearing, business intelligence, finance and other complex middle and back office operational systems.

Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

Summary of Key responsibilities include:

• Analysis and assessment of business and system requirements in direct collaboration with business users covering a variety of functional disciplines
• Hands-on application development (this is a coding position, candidates should have a strong desire to be in-the-code) of high-quality, performant and feature rich web applications that provide first-class operational capabilities to the MIAX Exchange Group
• Define the back-end REST APIs for the features of the services being built.
• Write unit, integration and end-to-end tests and work with the team for defining test cases.

Organizational Structure

The Application Developer will report directly to the Sr. VP of Business Systems Development.

Qualifications

• Expert in core Java and JEE technologies
• Deep understanding of web application architecture and design principles
• Must have in-depth knowledge of one or more application frameworks such as Spring Boot, Spring MVC and Spring Web Flux
• Strong experience with web development tools and languages such as Angular, HTML5, CSS and Javascript
• Strong database design and SQL expertise
• Experience with Linux and shell scripting
• Experience with CI/CD practices.
• Experience with Container technologies (Docker & Kubernetes) a plus.
• Experience with Cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud a plus.
• Well versed in industry standard architecture design methodologies and processes
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced team-oriented environment

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 5+ or more years of experience using Java technologies to build large-scale business applications.
• Financial industry experience is a plus.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $120,000 - $170,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com. 

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications.

Princeton, New Jersey

The MIAX Exchange Group (“MIAX”) of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is currently looking for a Market Data Operations Specialist to join the MIAX Data Services Team.  
The Data Services Team at MIAX is responsible for all aspects of the market data management lifecycle - from customer onboarding, licensing and entitlement creation, and usage reporting oversight to data revenue management. The Market Data Operations Specialist will be involved in all aspects of market data operations.
MIAX places a high-value on providing industry leading customer service and the Market Data Operations Specialist will be involved in client interface for all facets of market data management.
The MIAX Data Services Team collaborates with our Sales, Products and Business Strategy, Trading Operations, Finance and Legal Teams to ensure best-in-class support.
The Market Data Operations Specialist will have the opportunity to make an immediate impact by providing critical support for the onboarding of a new asset class and customers to a new MIAX market data customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Post CRM platform migration, the Market Data Operations Specialist will be primarily responsible for the day to day management of the platform, including with respect to equities, options and futures data. 

Main responsibilities include

• Oversee day-to-day market data management functions, including but not limited to, customer licensing and entitlements, monthly invoice reconciliation and monthly data usage reporting.
• Develop detailed knowledge of the market data CRM platform and assist external customers as well as advise internal team members on the details of the platform.
• Proactively educate external customers around reporting requirements and how to access and interact with the market data CRM platform.
• Work with internal stakeholders and global market data team to collate ongoing data needs and identify access/entitlement requirements.
• Act as an integral part of a data market data platform migration to onboard a new asset class. Oversee customer onboarding and support, customer profile creation and licensing and entitlement setup.
• Communicate with external customers as appropriate to provide industry leading support regarding data reporting and market data CRM platform interaction.
• Ongoing monitoring of internal usage and evolving data requirements to mitigate potential risk.
• Provide monthly growth and revenue analysis with respect to market data services.

Organizational Structure
The Market Data Operations Specialist will report directly to the Vice President, Head of Data Services.

Industry Experience and Qualifications

• 4+years of experience in market data operations at an exchange, market data vendor or buy- or sell-side firm.
• Strong understanding of capital markets, especially the equities, options and futures markets.
• Hands on experience with market data management systems and inventory tools, preferably DataBP.
• Solid understanding of licensing and entitlements related to exchange data including, reporting obligations, fee structures and unit of count.
• In-depth knowledge of market data vendor landscape and buy/sell side use case requirements, including but not limited to, internal and external data distribution. methods, raw versus normalized feeds, non-display versus display data use cases and how use cases differ by type of market participant.
• Strong analytical capabilities; ability to synthesize and distill large quantities of data to extract revenue and usage trends and insights.

Education and Other Qualifications

• 4-year degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting, similar field or equivalent.
• Reliable and organized with a strong attention to detail.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks on an on-going basis and work both in a team environment and independently.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to liaise effectively with external customers.
• Highly organized self-starter and independent worker.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $110,000 - $150,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com. 

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications.

Princeton, NJ

The MIAX Exchange Group (“MIAX”) of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is currently seeking to fill a Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS role on our Business Systems Development team.  This is a hands-on-keyboard, highly technical, IC role. In this role, you will own the buildout of various applications and infrastructure in AWS and engineering of hybrid environments connecting our on-prem and cloud in a secure, resilient manner.  

This role will work in close collaboration with Network Engineering, Information Security and Application teams with a clear remit of a cloud-first thinking and supporting both on-prem and cloud roadmaps. Strong written and oral communication skills are essential and candidates should be self-directed and motivated to work in a fast paced, team-oriented environment.

Summary of Key Responsibilities Include

• AWS Solutions Architect SAA-C02 Certification required.
• Deep experience is expected on IAM.
• Architecting cloud solutions using VPCs, Direct Connect, IAM and AWS Control Tower. Experience with multi-account implementations and RCPs/SCPs (Resource and Service Control Policies) is highly desirable.
• Work with SecurityHub and establishing best practices around remediation and ongoing observability.
• Partner with the software architects and network engineers in designing and improving CI/CD processes, and using infrastructure-as-code.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, implement preventive measures.
• Work with the AWS CDK IaC frameworks in Python or NodeJS.
• Participate in applying SRE principles such as availability SLIs, error budgets, incident reviews, alerting and be part of an on-call ROTA.

Organizational Structure

The Senior Cloud Engineer – AWS will report directly to the Director of DevOps in the Business Systems Development department.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms.
• Familiarity with implementing a hybrid networking architecture in a highly regulated environment– such as establishing data perimeters.
• AWS EKS, Load Balancers, EC2 Instances, S3 Storage, Direct Connect Gateways, VPCs, RDS, DynamoDB, Network Firewalls, ECS.
• Experience with Cloudwatch Logs and Alarms and building observability around the AWS solutions.
• Experience with Kubernetes - including familiarity with Networking and Storage.
• Strong Linux background and containerization principles - OCI, Docker or packer/podman.
• Experience with Kafka and managing Kafka clusters are desirable.
• Experience with Jenkins or other CI/CD framework is desirable.
• Knowledge of web services, APIs, REST and RPC calls.
• Prometheus, Alert Manager, Splunk, Loki and Grafana is a plus.
• Experience in GitOps for kubernetes – Flux, ArgoCD and tools like kustomize and helm.
• Experience with Shell Scripts, Python SDLC.
• Java or NodeJS/React programming is a plus.

Education and Experience

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent.
• 3+ years of experience using cloud technologies to support large-scale business applications.
• Financial or other regulated industry experience is a plus. 

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $150,000 - $180,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com. 

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications.

Miami, FL

The MIAX Exchange Group ("MIAX") of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is currently looking for a dynamic individual to join the MIAX Regulatory Department as a Trading Floor Official Analyst for the MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange located in Miami, FL.  

Role Description, Responsibilities and Duties: 

The candidate must possess a detailed understanding and knowledge of the options, equities and capital markets, including the applicable laws, rules and regulations enforceable by MIAX and the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC).  The analyst will be required to review real time market activity, remediate exchange and member issues, and conduct both real time and post trade reviews and investigations.  This position requires the analyst to interact in-person on the MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange trading floor with MIAX Sapphire member firm personnel and various MIAX Exchange Group personnel on a daily basis.

Duties include: 

• Monitoring of MIAX trading activity and real-time alerts.
• Conducting real-time regulatory reviews utilizing MIAX proprietary systems and industry trade data.
• Identifying and communicating potential regulatory issues and unusual trading behavior to supervisors, senior officers and/or member firms.
• Interacting with MIAX Sapphire member firm personnel, other Self-Regulatory Organizations (SRO’s) personnel and various MIAX Exchange Group personnel.
• Building relationships with options exchange market participants and providing guidance on MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange rules.

Organizational Structure
The Trading Floor Official Analyst will report directly to the Vice President of Regulatory Trading Floor Oversight. The Trading Floor Official Analyst will work out of the MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange trading floor located in Miami, FL. 

Qualifications

• Ability to function at a high level and prioritize critical tasks in a dynamically changing environment.
• Ability to perform real-time reviews involving complex trading issues.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational, written and oral communication skills.
• Proficient computer skills with Microsoft Excel, Word and Outlook.  Advanced Excel skills highly desired.
• Familiarity with LiveVol or other market data vendor platforms.
• Motivated individual with the ability to work independently, as a team member and across various MIAX departments.
• Excellent people skills.

Education and Experience

• Knowledge of trading and markets in options industry required, including SEC and SRO rules and regulations.
• Expert-level professional focused on sharpening skills and working under limited guidance and supervision.
• Experience working in a real-time trading environment (exchange, trading desk, etc.) preferred.
• Regulatory experience at an SRO strongly desired.
• Knowledge of Options, Derivatives and Capital Markets.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a relevant field.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $80,000 - $140,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com.

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications. 

Chicago, Illinois or Princeton, New Jersey

We are currently looking for a highly motivated and hands-on 2nd and 3rd Shift Trade Support and Quality Assurance Analyst to join the MIAX Trading Operations Futures Team. This candidate will have the opportunity to be in from the ground-up and have a direct impact on the operations of the new trading platform. They must demonstrate the ability to proactively participate in the end-to-end system testing process within a fast-paced trading environment. Candidates are required to develop a deep understanding of Business System Requirement documents and translate these concepts into automated production test scenarios. 

This candidate will work 1st shift temporarily until the new trading platform goes live in 2025. Once that occurs, they will receive a shift differential and migrate daily workload to the new shift hours. The Futures team will be instrumental in creating policies and workflows that will persist through the launch of the new trading platform. 

The Trading Operations team is responsible for all front-line customer support. It is critical that the candidate has a meticulous attention to detail in following operational processes and procedures. Trading Operations is also responsible for all client interface and business functionality testing of the Trading systems.

Main responsibilities include

• Interacting directly with member Firm’s trading desks to provide all operational support.
• Coordinate with external technical staff for firm configurations of trading sessions and networking connectivity.
• Maintaining and completing all daily Exchange Operations.
• Evaluate and monitor order status, net positions, daily settlements and client connectivity.
• Analysis and review of client investigations.
• Participating in the MIAX Quality Assurance program.
• Developing, authoring and troubleshooting comprehensive test scenarios which are validated against the testing system.
• Proactively participating in the review of business requirements for the purpose of developing test case scenarios that ensure complete test coverage of application functionality.
• Developing, maintaining and executing test plans that validate new features and releases.
• Ensuring all software issues are reported and handled efficiently per the MIAX software defect remediation process.
• Participating in all aspects of a full-life cycle development methodology.
• Developing and performing application certification with external clients to ensure smooth transition of new features being enabled in the production environment.
• Communicating status efficiently and ensuring the team is on track for all manual testing.
• Providing timely resolution of technical and user specific issues and requests.
• Engaging in continuous process evaluation and improvement.
• Assisting Department Manager with Industry-based calls.
• Maintaining knowledge of Industry trends and their impact on trade support.
• Troubleshooting technical and functional issues based on exchange Rules and system design.

Organizational Structure
The Trading Operations Support & Quality Assurance Analyst will report directly to the Senior Vice President of Trading Operations and Listings.

Qualifications

• Must have the capacity to thoroughly understand the Software Quality Assurance testing process and best practices.
• Strong team based and customer facing verbal and written communication skills are a must.
• Must possess the aptitude for automated testing of a platform in an integrated testing environment, as well as testing user-interface and transaction-processing systems.
• Effective analytical and problem solving skills.
• Required to be a self-motivated, patient, dynamic, organized and responsible team player.
• Function at a high level and prioritize critical tasks in a dynamically changing environment.
• Possess a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance or IT/Computer Science.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge/prior use of JIRA tracking software is a plus.
• Futures, options and/or equities Industry background is a plus.
• Experience testing trade execution systems at an exchange or for an ECN/ATS is a plus.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $85,000 - $105,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com. 

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications.

Miami, Florida

The MIAX Exchange Group (“MIAX”) of Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is currently looking for a highly motivated and hands-on Trade Support & Quality Assurance Analyst to join the MIAX Trading Operations Team on the MIAX Sapphire Trading Floor in Miami, Florida. The Trading Operations team is responsible for all front line customer support. It is critical that the applicant has a meticulous attention to detail. Trading Operations is also responsible for all client interface and business functionality testing of the Trading systems.

Main responsibilities include

• Supporting real time trading services to on floor options members on the MIAX Sapphire Options Exchange to ensure superior customer service and adherence to regulatory standards.
• Processing member requests for local networking and desk top support.
• Facilitating solutions for firm technologists and external vendor requests. 
• Interacting directly with trading floor members and member firms’ trading desks to provide all operational support.
• Coordinating member firms’ technical staff for firm configurations of trading sessions and networking connectivity. 
• Maintaining and completing all daily MIAX Sapphire Exchange Operations.
• Ensuring all software issues are reported and handled efficiently per the MIAX Exchange software defect remediation process.
• Developing and performing application certification with external clients to ensure smooth transition of new features being enabled in the production environment.
• Providing timely resolution of technical and user specific issues and requests.
• Engaging in continuous process evaluation and improvement.
• Assisting MIAX Trading Operations Department Manager with Industry-based calls.
• Maintaining knowledge of Industry trends and their impact on trade support.
• The candidate must demonstrate the ability to proactively participate in the end-to-end system testing process within a fast paced trading environment. Candidates are required to develop a deep understanding of Business System Requirement documents and translate these concepts into automated production test scenarios.
• Participating in the MIAX Exchange Quality Assurance program.
• Developing, authoring and troubleshooting comprehensive test scenarios which are validated against the testing system.
• Proactively participating in the review of business requirements for the purpose of developing test case scenarios that ensure complete test coverage of application functionality.
• Participating in all aspects of a full-life cycle development methodology.
• Troubleshooting technical and functional issues based on MIAX Exchange Rules and system design.
   

Organizational Structure
The Trading Operations Support & Quality Assurance Analyst will report directly to the Senior Vice President of MIAX Trading Operations and Listings.

Qualifications

• Strong team based and customer facing verbal and written communication skills are a must.
• Effective analytical and problem solving skills.
• Required to be a self-motivated, patient, dynamic, organized and responsible team player.
• Function at a high level and prioritize critical tasks in a dynamically changing environment.
• Possess a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Must have the capacity to thoroughly understand the Software Quality Assurance testing process and best practices.
• Must possess the aptitude for automated testing of a platform in an integrated testing environment, as well as testing user-interface and transaction-processing systems.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, IT/Computer Science or a related field.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge/prior use of JIRA tracking software is recommended.
• Options and/or equities industry background is recommended.
• Experience testing trade execution systems at an exchange or for an ECN/ATS is recommended.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $90,000 - $140,000.  Actual initial base salary will be determined based on factors that may include qualifications, experience, and/or geography.

If you are interested in applying for a position, please send your resume, cover letter and salary requirements to hr@miaxglobal.com. 

Miami International Holdings, Inc. (MIH) is an equal employment opportunity employer. MIH adheres to a policy of making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran or other legally protected status. Your opportunity for employment with MIH depends solely upon your qualifications.