About this role
<p><strong>Your area of work</strong></p> <p>The Trading Design team within Trading Design & Delivery conceptualizes, implements, and maintains processes around the integration of new products, services, and functionalities of the trading system. The team takes a leading role in the design of functional and data architecture, enabling professional data analytics and informed trading decisions across the organization.</p> <p>As a Trading Data Steward / Quantitative Strategist, you will establish domain-level data ownership for trading data assets, ensure alignment with enterprise-wide data governance standards, and progressively take on quantitative research responsibilities related to trading and market microstructure analysis.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Design, develop, and continuously improve data governance policies, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and organizational objectives</li> <li>Coordinate with business lines, data product teams, and IT functions to implement data governance policies across lines of defense, supporting their effective integration into daily operations</li> <li>Collaborate closely with trading business experts, product owners, and IT teams to define data products, data contracts, and domain semantics, including the development of data quality reporting in self-service mode</li> <li>Review and continuously improve data governance roles and responsibilities (including RACI matrices), testing and iteratively enhancing them to ensure operational effectiveness</li> <li>Analyze and evaluate market data and monitor the impact of changes on trading market microstructure design</li> <li>Support the set-up, preparation, and presentations for Data Governance Council and related forums, and report on workstream progress to senior management and stakeholders</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Your profile</strong></p> <ul> <li>You have successfully completed your university degree in mathematics, economics, computer science, or a related quantitative discipline, or have relevant work experience in data governance or quantitative analysis</li> <li>You provide relevant professional experience in business consultancy, change initiatives, or data governance, involving policies, concepts, or standards definition; experience with data management in big data/data lake environments is an advantage</li> <li>You have a solid understanding of trading lifecycle processes, market microstructure, trading systems, and enterprise data management concepts including data modeling, metadata management, data architecture principles, and data quality management</li> <li>You are organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and the ability to articulate complex matters in a clear and structured way, combined with strong collaboration and interpersonal skills</li> <li>You have coding skills, ideally in Python and SQL, and knowledge of exchange-traded derivatives; experience with Databricks, Atlan, and GCP is advantageous</li> <li>You are proficient in written and spoken English, including strong technical writing skills; German language skills will be an asset</li> </ul>