Trade Surveillance Specialist – Commodities, Crypto

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Italy.

📋 Description

• Responsible for managing one or two related asset classes within the Subject Matter Expert team.

• Ensures that the Behavox Financial Data Model and Unified Risk Taxonomy appropriately reflect trading desks, venues, and regulatory requirements.

• Defines the data specifications, schemas, fields, and validation rules for asset classes.

• Transforms market abuse typologies into risk scenarios for Polaris trade surveillance.

• Anchors scenarios to regulatory enforcement cases and collaborates with engineering and data science to validate outputs.

• Maps asset classes to risk situations and regulatory obligations while maintaining coverage.

• Provides guidance to product, engineering, and data science teams.

• Assists revenue teams during client meetings, demonstrations, and RFPs alongside a senior SME or manager.

• Produces collateral that has been reviewed by SMEs.

• Drafts specifications for agent-based pipelines and validates their outcomes.

• Contributes to changes via Git-based workflows in GitLab.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of practical experience in a front office role, market surveillance, or front office data within an exchange, trading venue, market data provider, or trading technology vendor.

• Proficiency in English is required; knowledge of additional languages is a significant advantage.

• Practitioner-level expertise in at least one asset class: commodities and environmental products; digital assets and event contracts; fixed income and structured products; equities and funds; foreign exchange and money markets.

• Familiarity with instruments, venues, trading conventions, and pricing methodologies.

• Understanding of front office workflows, encompassing execution, sales, research, risk functions, order handling, quoting, and hedging.

• Knowledge of market abuse typologies such as insider dealing, spoofing and layering, wash trading, front running, and benchmark manipulation.

• Working knowledge of financial markets regulations, including EU MAR, MiFID II, US CFTC rules, and SEC regulations.

• Comprehension of trade, order, market, and reference data, as well as data quality issues, entities, schemas, validation rules, and versioning.

• Experience with agentic workflows is advantageous.

• Must be based in Italy for remote work opportunities.

🏝️ Benefits

• A genuinely global mission with a dedicated community located across the world.

• Significant impact and learning potential, as our aspirations demand innovative solutions.

• Highly competitive compensation package that includes 100% bonus pay already incorporated.

• Individual career development budget for education and growth.

• Generous time-off policy.

• Flexible working hours.

• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their families.