8 data analyst jobs found in Chicago

Equity Analyst As an Equity Analyst, you’ll sit directly on the trading desk, influencing real-time decisions and managing research-driven positions that have direct PnL Impact. You’ll bring deep sector knowledge or a proven ability to adapt across sectors, a keen understanding of how fundamentals drive short-term price and volatility changes, and the commercial mindset needed to translate your insights into profitable trading outcomes. This is a high-impact role designed for analysts who thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments – and who are eager to apply their market-making instincts, short-horizon research, and option-aware thinking to drive tangible results. What you’ll do As an Equity Analyst, you will: Leverage fundamental, event-driven, and short-term catalysts to identify and evaluate trading opportunities. Collaborate closely with traders to generate and manage positions that capture these opportunities, directly influencing desk PnL. Perform...

Optiver is looking for a Procurement Analyst to help enable and advance the business’ technology strategy in an operationally sound and cost-effective manner. The Procurement function drives strategic initiatives to ensure Optiver is buying goods and serv ices in the most efficient way at the most competitive prices. We firmly believe in balancing a safe, orderly production environment with profitability and sustainable growth. As a member of the Procurement team, you will individually drive a variety of purchasing initiatives, working with both internal and external stakeholders to purchase goods and services, reconcile our spend and be a steward of Procurement and Finance controls, and ensure that procurement processes operate efficiently and add continually add more value to the business. You will also collaborate with other members of the Procurement team to analyze our spend and find areas where we can optimize costs by improving how we buy critical tech components,...

As a Quantitative Research Intern, you will work side-by-side with our Research Team of mathematicians, scientists and technologists, to develop and enhance the models that drive Optiver’s trading. You will tackle a practical research project that has real-world impact and directly influences Optiver’s trading decisions. In our business, where the markets are always evolving, you will use your skills to predict its movements. This opportunity is also available in our Austin office.  What you’ll do: Led by our in-house education team, you will delve into trading fundamentals and engage in research projects that make a real difference. You will be paired with one of Optiver’s seasoned researchers, providing you exposure to a variety of research areas, including: Using statistical models and machine learning to develop trading algorithms. Leveraging big data technologies to analyze high-frequency trading strategies, market microstructure, and financial instruments to...

As a Quantitative Research Intern, you will work side-by-side with our Research Team of mathematicians, scientists and technologists, to develop and enhance the models that drive Optiver’s trading. You will tackle a practical research project that has real-world impact and directly influences Optiver’s trading decisions. In our business, where the markets are always evolving, you will use your skills to predict its movements. This opportunity is also available in our Austin office. What you’ll do: Led by our in-house education team, you will delve into trading fundamentals and engage in a research project that makes a real-world impact. You will be paired with one of Optiver’s seasoned researchers, providing you exposure to a variety of research areas, including: Using statistical models and machine learning to develop trading algorithms. Leveraging big data technologies to analyze high-frequency trading strategies, market microstructure, and financial...

As a Graduate Quantitative Researcher, you will develop, refine and implement algorithmic trading strategies that shape the future of electronic trading. Working alongside a research team of mathematicians, scientists and technologists, you will leverage vast data sets to construct complex models to predict market movements. With your expertise in statistics and exceptional analytical and research skills, you will develop innovative solutions that are foundational to Optiver’s trading strategies. This opportunity is also available in our New York City   and Austin offices. What you’ll do: Your onboarding You will participate in Optiver’s comprehensive Global Academy and be equipped with the knowledge needed to make an impact the moment you join your team. The comprehensive training covers trading theory and Optiver’s tech stack to hone your skills for your role. In addition, you will be paired with a dedicated mentor who will empower you to take...

Optiver is growing our Systematic Volatility Trading team and looking for an exceptional Quantitative Researcher to join us in the early stages. This is a rare opportunity to help define the direction of a fully automated options trading strategy, leveraging cutting-edge research to drive performance and profitability. What you’ll do: Develop and refine alpha-driven strategies for fully automated options trading Research and implement novel signals, models, and execution techniques to optimize trading performance Play a key role in shaping the future of the team What you’ll get: The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries A highly competitive compensation package Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure 401(k) match up to 50% Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays Extensive office perks,...

Optiver's Enterprise Operations team empowers our people across the organization to work as efficiently as possible and to collaborate on an increasing number of global initiatives with minimal friction. You will partner closely with Enterprise, Trading, and Business teams to identify, implement, and manage the tools that enable our best work. You will also play a key role in global application migrations and in developing end-to-end solutions that support our ambitious business goals. What you’ll do Engage stakeholders : Serve as the primary contact for technical and non-technical stakeholders, identifying their needs and challenges to refine processes and improve user experience. Manage application configuration : Coordinate change, incident, and problem management, while defining and promoting configuration best practices for Enterprise Technology applications. Administer core tools : Take ownership of our collaboration and productivity suite, including Jira,...

Our Senior Software Engineers lead large technical projects, help set the direction for our trading infrastructure, and serve as role models within the organization. Our software engineering teams leverage technology to solve a variety of difficult problems. Our trading strategies must respond to market events in microseconds or less, and we automatically price large, diverse sets of financial instruments with extremely low error tolerance. We continually refine, store, and analyze terabytes of data produced by market activity and our trading systems. Our user interfaces must present coherent, responsive real-time visualizations of market activity and system performance while providing intuitive control of a highly complex system. Our core systems must provide a stable, performant, and trusted foundation on which our systems are built. Technology at Optiver: At Optiver we pride ourselves on being real engineers, not just coders. Our engineers work closely with traders to...