Job Description
Position Title: Senior Business Analyst (Contract)
Domain: Markets Risk Technology - Trade Surveillance & Supervisory
Location: London (hybrid)
Duration: Initial 6 months
Start Date: ASAP
Role Overview
The Senior Technical Business Analyst will support the delivery of a new trade surveillance capability
within the Markets Risk Technology function of a major UK bank. The role ensures that surveillance controls, supervisory workflows and associated data flows are designed and documented with a high level of technical precision. The position also contributes to the review and automation of existing manual supervisory controls as new platform capabilities are introduced.
This is a technically focused business analysis role. The primary output is accurate, engineer-ready
documentation. While business engagement is important, technical rigour is the core requirement.
Key Responsibilities
* Produce detailed functional and technical specifications for surveillance platform components,
* including alert routing logic, supervisory interfaces, attestation workflows and MI reporting
* Manage review and approval cycles, maintaining full version control and audit-ready documentation Supervisory Controls Assessment
* Document current manual supervisory processes operated across front-office and operations
* Identify automation opportunities and support transition planning as new platform features are
* Deployed Data Flow and Requirements Documentation
* Map end-to-end data flows from trading systems to surveillance platforms
* Identify gaps, ambiguities or incomplete requirements and address these ahead of engineering build phases Governance and Oversight Support
* Prepare documentation for governance forums, including data requirements, scope boundaries,
* decision records and evidence for audit and assurance
* Ensure risks, dependencies and design rationale are clearly documented
Skills and Experience Required:
* Minimum 10 years' business analysis experience within financial services technology
* Proven ability to produce functional and technical specifications used directly by engineering teams
* Experience working within environments subject to formal governance, internal oversight or external review
* Strong ability to interpret data flows, identify ambiguity and document requirements clearly to avoid rework
* Demonstrable stakeholder management capability, including driving review cycles and tracking
* decisions to closure
* Ability to map manual or supervisory processes end-to-end and produce clear process and
* dependency documentation
Desirable
* Experience in trade surveillance, market abuse monitoring or first-line supervisory technology.
* Background in regulatory change or programmes involving external oversight
* Understanding of cloud-based data pipelines and modern data architectures
* Ability to read SQL and interpret underlying data extraction
* Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including JIRA
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.