[Hiring] Trade Surveillance Specialist @Behavox

Role Description

The Front Office Subject Matter Expert is an experienced individual contributor in the Subject Matter Expert (SME) team. The role is the primary owner of one or two related asset classes and makes sure that the Behavox Financial Data Model (BFDM) and the Unified Risk Taxonomy (URT) reflect how trading desks, venues and regulation actually work.

• The URT is the common language for risks across preventive controls (such as conflicts of interest and conduct) and detective controls (such as trade and communications surveillance).
• Working with little day-to-day instruction, the role defines asset class data specifications, turns market abuse typologies into scenarios for Polaris, the Behavox trade surveillance product, and advises product, engineering and data science teams.
• Supports the revenue team in client meetings, demos and requests for proposal (RFPs) alongside a senior SME or the manager, but does not lead engagements with high-profile prospects or regulators on its own.
• The role is AI-native: it works with AI agents and agentic workflows, specifying requirements for agent-based pipelines and validating their outputs through structured data models and Git-based workflows.

This is a remote friendly opportunity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a front office role, in market surveillance, or with front office data at an exchange, trading venue, market data provider or trading technology vendor.
• English required; other languages a strong plus.
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows is a plus.
• Open for a remote candidate within Italy.

Requirements

• Practitioner-level knowledge of at least one of the following asset classes:
  • Commodities and environmental products
  • Digital assets and event contracts
  • Fixed income and structured products
  • Equities and funds
  • Foreign exchange and money markets
• Understanding of how execution, sales, research and risk functions operate on a trading desk, including 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 trading conduct rules, such as the EU Market Abuse Regulation (MAR), MiFID II, and US rules of the CFTC and SEC.
• Understanding of trade, order, market and reference data, their quality issues, and modelling concepts such as entities, schemas, validation rules and versioning.

What You'll Do

• Defines BFDM fields, schemas and validation rules for owned asset classes, and checks data outputs against them.
• Turns market abuse typologies into Polaris risk scenarios, anchors them to regulatory enforcement cases, and validates their outputs with engineering and data science.
• Maps owned asset classes to URT risk situations and regulatory requirements, and keeps coverage current.
• Answers front office, data and surveillance questions in client meetings, demos and RFPs alongside the revenue team, and produces SME-reviewed collateral.
• Writes clear specifications for agent-based pipelines, reviews and validates their outputs, and contributes changes through Git-based workflows in GitLab.

Benefits

• A truly global mission with a passionate community in locations all over the world.
• Huge impact and learning potential as our aspirations require bold innovation.
• Highly competitive compensation with 100% bonus pay already integrated.
• Individual career development budget for your learning and growth.
• Generous time-off policy and flexible work schedule.

Company Description

Behavox is shaping the future for how businesses harness their most important raw material - data. Our mission is bold: Organize enterprise data into actionable information that protects and promotes the business growth of multinational companies around the world.

From managing enterprise risk and compliance to maximizing revenue and value, our data operating platform presents a widespread opportunity to build multilingual, AI/ML-based solutions that activate data for every function within a global enterprise.

We are looking for fearless innovators who have an insatiable appetite for building what no one has built before.