Legal à Émirats arabes unis

We are currently looking for Senior Technical Lead Market Surveillance forour UAE operations with the following Skill set and terms & conditions.

Platform Integration & Exchange Onboarding:

Lead technical efforts to integrate new exchanges venues and data sources into the surveillance platform coordinating across vendor internal infrastructure and external exchange teams.

Facilitate onboarding of new data feeds (e.g. order trade drop copy market data) including format validation protocol mapping (e.g. FIX) normalization and certification.

Manage and support testing cycles with exchanges and venues including coordination of system integration testing (SIT) user acceptance testing (UAT) and issue triage.

Understanding of exchange architecture in terms of OMS (Order management system) data matching engines FIX node processes data validators FIX tag / value pairs FIX message types and their usage within session / application level management.

Vendor Coordination & Change Management:

Act as the primary technical point of contact with the market surveillance provider ensuring the vendor delivers against SLAs and functional requirements.

Oversee release coordination environment management (e.g. test UAT prod) and feature deployments in partnership with the vendor and internal teams.

Drive change request processes track enhancement requests and validate rule and configuration changes prior to production deployment.

Ensure the SaaS platform continues to meet operational regulatory and security expectations.

Confidential

Operational Oversight:

Monitor platform availability data completeness and alert performance to ensure continuous surveillance coverage.

Support incident triage and resolution in collaboration with the SaaS vendor DevOps and compliance stakeholders.

Establish and maintain dashboards operational runbooks and incident response protocols.

Drive regular vendor review sessions to review KPIs issues and platform roadmap alignment.

Cross-Functional Leadership:

Partner with Compliance Surveillance Operations Legal and IT Security to ensure surveillance capabilities align with regulatory mandates and internal controls.

Represent technical interests in vendor governance meetings regulatory audits and internal control assessments.

Translate compliance requirements into actionable technical tasks and track their delivery with vendor and internal teams.

• Bachelors degree in computer science Information Systems Engineering or related field.
• 8 years of experience in financial services technology including 3 years in a technical leadership or systems integration role.
• Strong understanding of market structure trade lifecycle and regulatory surveillance needs across asset classes.
• Proven experience working with third-party SaaS or managed surveillance platforms and external data providers (e.g. exchanges brokers).
• Familiarity with integration protocols such as FIX SFTP REST APIs and data transformation/validation processes.
• Excellent organizational communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Exposure to major market surveillance platforms (e.g. Nasdaq SMARTS Eventus Validus Scila ACA etc.).
• Experience in network architecture and an understanding of end-to-end firewall policies static routes and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as CAT MAR MiFID II and SEC Rule 15c3-5.
• backend server side management is a bonus - understanding of OS management and Linux.
• 8 to 10 Years.

Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)

Joining time frame: maximum 4 weeks

No

Full-time