Job Description

Our client is seeking a Technical BA Trade Surveillance professional to elicit, define, and document trade and communications surveillance requirements across multiple asset classes, translating business needs into clear technical specifications for development teams.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Elicit, define, and document Trade Surveillance and Communications Surveillance requirements across multiple asset classes
• Develop clear functional and technical requirements for surveillance scenarios, parameters, and alerts related to market abuse
• Translate business requirements into data and technical specifications for developers, including entity relationships and data models
• Work closely with development teams to explain data structures, joins, and logic required to build surveillance solutions
• Validate data outputs by performing detailed testing and review of surveillance scenarios and datasets
• Analyse trade and market data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and regulatory relevance
• Support BAU surveillance operations through continuous improvement of rules, scenarios, and reporting

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in trade surveillance or related financial services business analysis
• Expert-level knowledge of trade lifecycle and market abuse and trade surveillance requirements
• Hands-on expertise in SQL including query optimization, inner joins, outer joins, and complex query writing
• Strong understanding of entity relationship diagrams (ERDs) and data models
• Proficiency in surveillance scenario definition and parameter configuration
• Experience with field-level mappings and managing multiple datasets
• Proven ability to perform data validation and ensure regulatory compliance across trading datasets