Trading Technology Associate

We are seeking a Trading Technology Associate to elevate automation, controls, and quality standards across our global trading platform.

This role sits directly alongside traders and engineers in a live market environment. You will play a central role in strengthening the infrastructure that supports portfolio implementation — ensuring trading workflows are transparent, systematically validated, and built to scale. The position requires strong investment domain knowledge, technical fluency, and the judgment to identify control gaps before they become production risk.

This position offers meaningful ownership over workflow design, testing discipline, automation strategy, and production resilience across a global trading organization.

Responsibilities

The candidate is expected to:

• Partner with director of trading technology and traders to translate workflow needs into clear functional requirements, validation criteria, and control standards.
• Collaborate closely with developers through design, build, testing, release, and post-production stabilization.
• Document and maintain end-to-end trading workflows, system logic, controls, integrations, and key dependencies.
• Develop dashboards and reporting that provide transparency into workflow performance, validation metrics, and exception trends.
• Create and execute structured test plans for system enhancements, upgrades, and integrations.
• Lead user acceptance testing, including script development, execution oversight, defect tracking, and documentation.
• Expand automated regression coverage for high-risk trading workflows in partnership with development.
• Define and enforce release validation standards prior to production deployment.
• Design and implement automated production checks to validate trade accuracy, workflow integrity, and data quality, reducing reliance on manual monitoring.
• Provide production support, perform root cause analysis, and strengthen controls, documentation, and automation frameworks based on operational learnings.

Qualifications

The successful candidate will possess strong analytical skills and attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate will possess:

• 2–5 years of experience in financial services, ideally supporting trading or front-office technology
• Working knowledge of the trade lifecycle across equities and fixed income
• Experience with order management systems (Charles River and/or Aladdin preferred)
• Demonstrated experience writing structured requirements and executing formal test plans
• Proficiency in Python for automation or data analysis; working knowledge of SQL
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail in a fast-moving environment
• Ability to operate independently and collaborate effectively with traders and developers
• Professional maturity to challenge assumptions and elevate control standards
• Comfortable challenging requirements or control frameworks when risks are identified

Base Salary Range: $100,000-$150,000

Specific placement within the provided range will be determined by an individual’s geographic location as well as relevant experience and skills for the role. Base salary is only one component of our total compensation package. Associates may be eligible for a discretionary bonus, which is determined upon Firm and individual performance.

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Artisan Partners Limited Partnership is an equal opportunity employer. Artisan Partners does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected under applicable law. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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