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Chicago, Illinois or Minneapolis, Minnesota

MIAX Futures Exchange, LLC (“MIAX Futures”), a subsidiary of Miami International Holdings, Inc., is currently looking for a highly motivated full-time Market Regulation Associate Director, Rules & Regulatory Outreach for its Market Regulation Department.

The Market Regulation Associate Director, Rules & Regulatory Outreach will be responsible for protecting the integrity of MIAX Futures’ futures markets by monitoring compliance of the markets with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules and with Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) regulations. This role will be tasked with providing associate director level leadership within the MIAX Futures Market Regulation Department. There will be interaction with other commodity markets and regulatory bodies, as well as market participants.  

MIAX Futures Market Regulation is responsible for ensuring MIAX Futures’ compliance with statutory and regulatory provisions associated with operating designated contract markets. Market Regulation personnel preserve the integrity of MIAX Futures’ markets by safeguarding the markets from abuse. To ensure compliance with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules, personnel use surveillance tools and other resources to monitor MIAX Futures’ markets for evidence of abusive, disruptive, or illegal activity; to detect and prevent manipulative behaviors; and to conduct trade practice investigations.

Main responsibilities include

• Ensuring integrity of MIAX Futures markets through exchange rules, policies, procedures.
• Overseeing compliance with existing and new futures industry policy initiatives.
• Coordination of daily market surveillance with Market Regulation policies.
• Reviewing market dynamics, including price convergence and volatility.

Organizational Structure
The Market Regulation Associate Director, Rules & Regulatory Outreach will report directly to the Chief Regulatory Officer of MIAX Futures.

Qualifications

• Attention to detail.
• Strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Ability to work independently, accurately and to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with a team and to foster working relationships.
• Process-oriented thinking.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• High level of confidentiality and professionalism.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required.
• 5+ years of derivatives or financial compliance experience (CFTC or SEC financial regulation background preferred).
• Knowledge/prior use of JIRA tracking software is recommended.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Professional Office including PowerPoint/Slides, Excel/Sheets, Word/Docs, and Email.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $100,000 - $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, 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.

Chicago, Illinois or Minneapolis, Minnesota

MIAX Futures Exchange, LLC (“MIAX Futures”), a subsidiary of Miami International Holdings, Inc., is seeking a full-time Market Regulation Senior Investigator in its Market Regulation Department.

The Market Regulation Senior Investigator will be responsible for protecting the integrity of MIAX Futures’ futures markets by monitoring trade activity for compliance with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) regulations. This role will have exposure to a wide range of MIAX Futures components including trade, financial, market surveillance, and rule enforcement. There will be interaction with other commodity markets and regulatory bodies, as well as market participants.

MIAX Futures’ Market Regulation is responsible for ensuring MIAX Futures’ compliance with statutory and regulatory provisions associated with operating designated contract markets. Market Regulation Investigators preserve the integrity of MIAX Futures’ markets by safeguarding the markets from abuse. To ensure compliance with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules, investigators use surveillance tools and other resources to monitor MIAX Futures’ markets for evidence of abusive, disruptive, or illegal activity; to detect and prevent manipulative behaviors; and to conduct trade practice investigations.

Main responsibilities include

• Analysis of daily market surveillance reports.
• Conducting compliance investigations.
• Collecting and reporting grain movement and stocks.
• Reviewing price convergence and volatility.
• Monitoring the futures delivery process.

Organizational Structure
The Senior Investigator will report directly to the Market Regulation Manager of MIAX Futures.

Qualifications, Education, and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently, accurately and to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work effectively with a team and to foster working relationships.
• 5+ years of derivatives or financial compliance experience (CFTC or SEC financial regulation background preferred).
• Process-oriented thinking.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• High level of confidentiality and professionalism.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Professional Office including PowerPoint/Slides, Excel/Sheets, Word/Docs, and Email.

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $80,000 - $125,000.  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 Minneapolis, Minnesota

MIAX Futures Exchange, LLC (“MIAX Futures”), a subsidiary of Miami International Holdings, Inc., is currently looking for a highly motivated full-time Market Surveillance Analyst for its Market Regulation Department.

The Market Regulation Market Surveillance Analyst is responsible for protecting the integrity of MIAX Futures’ futures markets by monitoring trade activity for compliance with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulations. This role will have exposure to a wide range of MIAX Futures components including trade, financial, market surveillance and rule enforcement. There will be interaction with other commodity markets and regulatory bodies, as well as market participants.

MIAX Futures’ Market Regulation is responsible for ensuring MIAX Futures’ compliance with statutory and regulatory provisions associated with operating designated contract markets. Market Regulation Market Surveillance Analysts preserve the integrity of MIAX Futures’ markets by safeguarding the markets from abuse. To ensure compliance with MIAX Futures’ exchange rules, Market Surveillance Analysts use surveillance tools and other resources to monitor MIAX Futures’ markets for evidence of abusive, disruptive, or illegal activity; to detect and prevent manipulative behaviors; and to conduct trade practice investigations.
 

Main responsibilities include

• Analysis of daily market surveillance reports.
• Conducting compliance investigations.
• Collecting and reporting grain movement and stocks.
• Reviewing price convergence and volatility.
• Monitoring the futures delivery process.

Organizational Structure
The Market Surveillance Analyst will report directly to the Market Regulation Manager of MIAX Futures.

Qualifications, Education, and Experience

• Bachelors’ degree in finance, economics, accounting or equivalent education or experience.
• Attention to detail.
• Exposure to commodities markets.
• Exceptional analytical skills.
• Ability to multitask.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• High level of confidentiality and professionalism.
• Prior derivatives or financial compliance experience preferred (CFTC or SEC financial regulation background preferred).

The anticipated annualized base pay range for this position is $60,000 - $75,000.  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.

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.