Senior APAC Trade Surveillance Architect

IMC Trading; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC is expanding its APAC compliance program and the Senior Compliance Officer - Surveillance will own cross‑market trade surveillance for equities, derivatives and commodities. You will work with Trading, Technology, Compliance and Legal to design controls, investigate alerts and defend findings under regulatory scrutiny.

Based in APAC with Sydney as a focal point, you will prototype analyses using Python/SQL, review vendor surveillance, and partner with traders to understand strategies while

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on trade surveillance experience.
• Experience designing surveillance alerts from scratch.
• Strong practical capability in Python, SQL or equivalent tools.
• Ability to interrogate alert and model logic, validate outputs and challenge tech teams or vendors.
• Defensible investigation methodology with distinguishing false positives from deeper cases.
• Strong equities knowledge and understanding of trading strategies and market microstructure.
• Knowledge of APAC regulatory and exchange requirements (CSRC, SFC, ASIC).
• Experience across APAC markets (Australia, HK, China, Japan, Korea, Singapore); vendor tools are helpful but not substitutes.

Responsibilities

• Develop the APAC trade surveillance roadmap with focus on systematic equities expansion.
• Identify market-abuse risks and translate regulations into surveillance controls.
• Apply a structured investigation framework to alerts with clear documentation.
• Design surveillance alerts including scenario logic, data inputs, calculations and thresholds.
• W rite functional specifications and collaborate with developers on alerts and data feeds.
• Use Python, SQL to interrogate order, trade and market data; prototype analyses and test hypotheses.
• Review model logic and vendor surveillance; develop bespoke controls as needed.
• Manage alert queues and reduce false positives while maintaining risk coverage.
• Collaborate with traders to understand strategies and assess misconduct.
• Support responses to regulatory inquiries with evidence-based analysis.

Skills

Trade surveillance

Python

SQL

Alert design

Investigation methodology

Market microstructure

Regulatory knowledge APAC

Stakeholder communication

Tools

OneTick

SMARTS

Nice Actimize

Job description

IMC is expanding its APAC compliance program and the Senior Compliance Officer - Surveillance will own cross‑market trade surveillance for equities, derivatives and commodities. You will work with Trading, Technology, Compliance and Legal to design controls, investigate alerts and defend findings under regulatory scrutiny.

Based in APAC with Sydney as a focal point, you will prototype analyses using Python/SQL, review vendor surveillance, and partner with traders to understand strategies while