SL-001531
About the client
This organisation is a well-established player in the financial markets sector, providing technology-driven infrastructure and services that support secure, efficient and regulated trading. Its environment combines complex financial products, high-performance platforms and close collaboration between business, technology and operations teams. Based in Zurich, the organisation works with a broad range of market participants and places strong emphasis on reliability, transparency and continuous improvement. Employees contribute to initiatives that have a direct impact on trading processes, market data and the wider investment ecosystem. The culture is professional, international and delivery-focused, with opportunities to work on challenging projects involving modern trading platforms, evolving market requirements and complex stakeholder landscapes within a highly regulated financial services environment across both business and technology domains.
Job description
- Analyse and specify complex trading functionality across the full trading lifecycle, including order handling, execution workflows and market models.
- Translate business and instrument requirements into clear business requirements, functional specifications and interface specifications.
- Assess the business, operational and technical impact of changes across multiple systems.
- Work closely with business users, product managers, architects, developers and testing teams to turn requirements into deliverable solutions.
- Support feature refinement, implementation planning and delivery within an Agile environment.
- Contribute to topics spanning trading, market data, reference data and relevant regulatory requirements.
- Ensure requirements and specifications are detailed, consistent and ready for implementation.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in requirements engineering within exchange trading, market infrastructure or broader financial services.
- Strong expertise in exchange-traded financial instruments, particularly fixed income and structured products.
- Knowledge of equities and ETFs is an advantage.
- Solid understanding of trading platforms and matching engines, including order handling, execution workflows, market models and trading lifecycle processes.
- Demonstrated experience analysing and specifying complex trading functionality across interconnected systems.
- Strong track record of producing high-quality business requirements, functional specifications and interface specifications.
- Excellent analytical skills, attention to detail and the ability to translate complex concepts into actionable requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across business and technology teams.
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
- Fluent English.

