Top Tech Jobs & Startup Jobs in Chicago, IL

Design and prototype innovative UX/UI concepts during early-stage product discovery. Collaborate with researchers, creative leads, and product teams to create wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes, validate concepts through testing, and present visual narratives and design rationale to stakeholders while maintaining usability and accessibility.

Own product vision and roadmap for a cloud-native data platform on GCP. Translate business needs into epics and user stories, prioritize ETL/ELT, databases, streaming, and BI work, coordinate onshore/offshore teams, ensure data governance, quality, and analytics readiness, and drive adoption of Snowflake and DOMO-based analytics.

Design, build, and maintain operational and analytical data platform capabilities using Java Spring Batch, Python, AWS, Oracle, and Snowflake. Deliver end-to-end development, production rollout, and support; improve financial product data quality, modeling, and SQL performance; collaborate with business partners and squads.

Own the AI use-case backlog and prioritize agent-assist scale-out. Translate business intent into Epics, Features, and User Stories with explicit acceptance criteria in Azure DevOps. Run sprint planning, refinement, reviews, and demos on a fast-paced AI-infused agile cadence. Leverage AI tooling to draft requirements, generate stories, and author acceptance criteria. Coordinate with stakeholders and transformation advisors to meet call reduction, AHT, and deflection targets.

Lead UX strategy and mentor a UX/UI team to deliver user-centered designs. Plan and run user research, create personas, journeys, wireframes, and prototypes, ensure accessibility and cohesive cross-platform experiences, define KPIs, maintain design systems, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, and stakeholders to drive implementation and product outcomes.

Senior systems analyst responsible for analyzing end-to-end trading workflows, translating business needs into requirements, performing data mapping and UAT, and bridging mainframe and distributed systems. Deeply analyzes COBOL/JCL/DB2/VSAM/CICS applications, integrations (REST/SOAP/JSON/XML), and system interactions to ensure data integrity and drive solutions with product and engineering teams.

Lead testing strategy and automation for enterprise web applications and APIs. Build and maintain Java-based Selenium/Serenity automation, design reusable test artifacts, participate in Agile ceremonies, log and track defects, verify production releases, and promote a quality-first mindset across teams.

Build and maintain scalable Python/FastAPI backend services, integrate generative AI and LLMs, implement RAG/vector DB semantic search, design agent-based workflows, develop APIs and microservices, enable async/event-driven processing, support cloud-native deployments (Docker/Kubernetes), and collaborate across frontend, DevOps, and product teams to deliver secure, observable AI-driven employee support platform.

Lead design and implementation of high-performance Apache Camel routes and microservices, apply enterprise integration patterns, migrate TIBCO processes to Camel, optimize Java/Camel performance to meet SLAs, implement secure MFT/encryption and protocol integrations (SFTP, AS2, JMS/Kafka, REST/SOAP), build containerized solutions (Docker/Kubernetes/OpenShift), enforce rigorous testing, and mentor the engineering team.

Benchmark and optimize latency and throughput for an agentic AI platform. Stress-test multi-agent concurrency, RAG/vector DB retrieval, token throughput, orchestration hand-offs, and integrate automated performance regression tests into CI/CD while balancing cost versus performance.