Lead Solutions Analyst – Trade Surveillance & Compliance Technology
On-siteJersey City, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Define and drive the analytical and solutions delivery roadmap for Trade Surveillance technology initiatives, aligning with firmwide compliance strategy and regulatory obligations. Lead the elicitation, documentation, and validation of business and data flow requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder expectations and technical feasibility. Apply advanced data analytics techniques including SQL, Python, and cloud-native tools to extract actionable insights from large datasets, supporting surveillance alert tuning and trend analysis. Architect and oversee the design and implementation of technical solutions, ensuring seamless integration with existing surveillance systems and market data feeds. Mentor and develop team members in technical writing, analytical reasoning, and solutions delivery while contributing to hiring and performance development. Partner with Compliance, Legal, and Risk teams to ensure all solutions adhere to evolving regulatory requirements and audit readiness expectations.
Required Qualifications
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
- 5+ years applied experience
- Extensive experience of data analysis, data mapping and working with large data sets
- Strong domain knowledge of trade products and flows, including the functions of front office, middle office, back office, and settlement systems
- Deep understanding of financial instruments and markets, including Fixed Income, Equities, FX, Commodities, Futures, Options, and Swaps
- Prior experience in trading systems, regulatory controls, or compliance-oriented applications and environments
- High degree of expertise in data management, encompassing the full data lifecycle, including business requirements analysis, data feed definition, data mapping, integration across heterogeneous sources, and feed testing
- Experience in SQL and data analysis, with hands-on experience working with relational databases in on-premises and cloud environments
- Experience working with large-scale datasets for data retrieval, analysis, and inference generation to recommend solutions to complex business problems
- Experience leading requirements elicitation and documentation with business stakeholders, producing detailed functional specifications and maintaining traceability to technical implementation
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical and analytical findings to senior business, compliance, and technology stakeholders through written executive summaries, functional documentation, and verbal presentations
- Experience leveraging AI tools for productivity and efficiency improvement, including Agentic AI, Copilot, LLM-based assistants, and automation frameworks
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with trade surveillance platforms such as NICE Actimize, Nasdaq Surveillance, or equivalent compliance monitoring systems
- Understanding of regulatory reporting workflows or compliance alert investigation and case management processes
- familiarity with Data Modeling experience, creation of conceptual, logical, and metadata models
- Knowledge on AWS, Databricks, or other cloud-native data platforms
- Prior experience in mentoring junior analysts and leading cross-functional delivery team
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