Senior Trade Surveillance Data & Controls SME

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

Our Contingent Workforce Solutions (CWS) is one of our service offerings. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

Our client, a major UK retail bank, provides every day banking services to over 17 million retail customers. The banks expertise and services span across Business Services, Corporate banking, Wealth Management, Group Functions, Retail and Investment Banking.

On behalf of this organisation, AMS are looking for a Senior Trade Surveillance Data & Controls SME for a 12month contract based in London/Manchester. This role operates on a hybrid working model, with 2 days per week in the office.

Purpose of the role:

We are seeking a Senior Trade Surveillance Data & Controls SME with strong market abuse trade surveillance experience and practical experience onboarding new venue feeds and incorporating data quality controls.

You will provide surveillance oversight, review BA-produced documentation and the Trade Surveillance Data Analyst''s findings and testing evidence, and approve the relevant documents once identified issues have been satisfactorily addressed. The role will assess whether the proposed and implemented approach meets surveillance requirements, challenge outstanding gaps and support agreed data governance and operational control arrangements.

What you''ll do:

• Act as the senior Trade Surveillance SME, providing oversight and expertise for onboarding new vendor and trading venue data feeds into TradingHub.
• Work closely with Business Analysts, Technology and Surveillance teams to define and deliver surveillance data requirements.
• Review and approve FSDs, business filters, KDEs, data mappings and transformation requirements, ensuring they meet surveillance needs.
• Oversee data management frameworks, data quality controls, validation rules and business quality filters.
• Review and challenge analyst findings, testing evidence and assurance results, ensuring identified issues are resolved.
• Assess data quality issues and their impact on surveillance effectiveness, agreeing remediation and escalating outstanding risks.
• Provide surveillance approval of UAT and post-development assurance from a business perspective.
• Ensure appropriate data governance, documentation and control arrangements are maintained.
• Represent Surveillance at change and refinement forums, providing SME guidance and constructive challenge.
• Provide SME leadership and direction across Business Analyst, Technology and Surveillance stakeholders

The skills you''ll need:

• Strong practical experience in Trade Surveillance and Market Abuse Surveillance.
• Experience onboarding trading venue and vendor data feeds into surveillance platforms.
• Strong understanding of surveillance data requirements, data mappings, business filters and data quality controls.
• Experience reviewing FSDs, data specifications, testing evidence and assurance documentation.
• Knowledge of data governance, data management frameworks and operational controls.
• Strong analytical, stakeholder management and communication skills, with experience providing SME oversight and leadership.
• SQL and/or Python experience desirable but not essential

Next steps

This client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.

AMS, a Recruitment Process Outsourcing Company, may in the delivery of some of its services be deemed to operate as an Employment Agency or an Employment Business