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 accurately reflect trading desks, venues, and regulatory requirements.

• Establishes data specifications for asset classes.

• Transforms market abuse typologies into Polaris trade surveillance scenarios.

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

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

• Specifies BFDM fields, schemas, and validation rules, and checks data outputs for accuracy.

• Links surveillance scenarios to regulatory enforcement cases, validating outputs in collaboration with engineering and data science.

• Aligns asset classes with URT risk situations and regulatory obligations while ensuring comprehensive coverage.

• Responds to inquiries from front office, data, and surveillance teams, producing collateral reviewed by SMEs.

• Drafts specifications for agent-based pipelines, validates outputs, and contributes to changes via Git-based workflows in GitLab.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Proficiency in English is mandatory; knowledge of additional languages is highly beneficial.

• Experience with agentic workflows is advantageous.

• Remote candidates must reside within Italy.

• Practitioner-level knowledge of at least one of the following: 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 mechanisms.

• Understanding of execution, sales, research, and risk functions on a trading desk, including order handling, quoting, and hedging processes.

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

• Working knowledge of trading conduct regulations including EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), MiFID II, and US CFTC and SEC rules.

• Understanding of trade, order, market and reference data, data quality issues, entities, schemas, validation rules, and versioning processes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Highly competitive salary with a 100% bonus structure already included.

• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their families at no cost.

• Personal career development budget dedicated to learning and growth opportunities.

• Generous leave policy.

• Flexible working hours.

• A truly global mission supported by a passionate community across various locations worldwide.

• Significant impact and potential for learning.