Risk Product Analyst

As a Risk Product Analyst at DRW, you work directly with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Quantitative Researchers across multiple trading desks and asset classes. You sit at the intersection of trading, risk, and technology, proactively identifying problems affecting internal risk and valuation systems, diagnosing their root causes across the full technology stack, and resolving them quickly and effectively.

What you'll do

• Partner directly with Portfolio Managers, Traders, and Quantitative Researchers across rates, FX, commodities, equities, and crypto asset classes as their primary point of contact for risk and valuation issues
• Diagnose and resolve issues affecting risk and valuation systems by investigating across the full technology stack: applications, APIs, databases, messaging systems, and underlying services
• Monitor system and trading issues and prioritize incidents based on their potential impact to trading, portfolio management, and P&L
• Identify the appropriate engineering, quantitative, or infrastructure team when you cannot resolve an issue directly, and escalate with a clear, reproducible diagnosis to accelerate resolution
• Work closely with Engineering and Product Management teams to identify recurring problems and drive strategic technology solutions
• Develop tools and scripts in Python to automate diagnostics, investigate issues, analyze data, and improve workflows
• Build a strong understanding of the firm's trading and risk infrastructure and the dependencies between systems and underlying services

What you bring

• Deep knowledge of financial products (cash instruments, futures, swaps, options) and markets backed by strong technical skills
• Previous experience in trade support, trading technology, production support, or a closely related role within a production trading environment supporting multiple desks and/or asset classes
• Ability to write Python and SQL to investigate issues, automate diagnostics, and query and reconcile data across systems
• Familiarity with production diagnostic tooling such as log aggregation, dashboards, monitoring, and alerting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to methodically narrow down the source of an issue
• Ability to communicate effectively with a varied audience including portfolio managers, traders, quantitative researchers, engineers, and product managers

What we offer

• Annual base salary of $175,000 to $250,000 depending on experience, qualifications, and relevant skill set
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Comprehensive employee benefits including group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance, 401k with discretionary employer match, short and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance, health savings accounts, and flexible spending accounts

About DRW

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 30 years of experience operating in markets around the world. Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, DRW trades a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities, and Energy across all major global markets, and has expanded into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.