Senior Technical Business Analyst – Market Data to Data & Analytics Platform Migration (Trading) – Zurich Area Remote
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Zürich - Switzerland
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Job Summary
Avanda is a Swiss professional services consultancy. We are currently looking for a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our international team at our global end client in the Zurich area. This is a long term opportunity (project goes into 2028). Remote work accepted with once every 4-6 weeks onsite.
THE ROLE
You will join a multi-year Market Data to Data & Analytics Platform Migration programme in the Trading sector. As the Technical Business Analyst you will support the Project Manager and workstream leads on the technical and business-related topics across the migration with a focus on reconciliation sign-off requirements engineering and unblocking the technical teams when business or risk context is needed.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
- Support reconciliation topics between legacy market data sources and the new platform and bring them to sign-off with business and risk stakeholders
- Gather and clarify requirements from business and risk users and translate them for the federated technical teams
- Support business users on data issues and act as the bridge to the technical teams
- Unblock technical teams on open business or risk questions
- Support the PM on technical follow-ups open item tracking and stakeholder clarifications.
YOUR PROFILE
- Business Analyst background with solid technical understanding (data platforms ingestion APIs)
- Experience in Market Data Risk or Trading environments
- Comfortable engaging both business / risk users and development teams
- Able to work independently on requirements engineering and reconciliation / sign-off topics
- Fluent English (mandatory); German is a plus
If this sounds like your next challenge and you would like to know more please send us your updated cv and we will call you shortly to discuss it in more details.
Required Skills:
YOUR PROFILE Strong Business Analyst background with solid technical understanding (data platforms ingestion pipelines APIs data modelling) Proven experience in market data risk or trading environments Confident engaging both business / risk users and development teams comfortable on both sides of the table Track record of independent ownership of requirements engineering and reconciliation / sign-off topics Comfortable with federated delivery models (data mesh domain-driven agile-at-scale) Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Fluent English (mandatory). German language skills (B2 / fluent) strongly preferred for stakeholder interactions Strong Plus / Differentiators Domain experience in Investment Banking Energy Trading Commodities Trading Power & Gas or Financial Markets Hands-on exposure to ETRM/CTRM systems (Mesap Endur Allegro RightAngle OpenLink Aligne) Experience with market data feeds and vendors: Refinitiv/LSEG Bloomberg ICE EEX EPEX Trayport ZEMA Montel Familiarity with risk concepts: VaR P&L attribution position keeping curves forward pricing regulatory reporting (REMIT EMIR MiFID II FRTB) Technical fluency: SQL REST APIs JSON Python (read-level) data modelling Databricks Snowflake Azure Data Platform Kafka Airflow Exposure to Data Mesh Data Lakehouse or modern data product architectures Tooling: JIRA Confluence Miro Lucidchart Postman Swagger/OpenAPI Swiss market experience or based in Switzerland (Zurich Baden Aarau Zug Basel) Whats on offer Long-term contract up to 22 months with phased extensions Highly flexible remote setup (90-100% remote) Excellent Rates on offer for the right person High-impact role with direct exposure to senior business risk and engineering stakeholders International team environment at a leading client in the Trading domain Work on a strategic high-visibility platform migration at the intersection of business risk and modern data architecture Must be available to occasionally travel to the Zurich area for key meetings/workshops Start within one month from offer. KEYWORDS (for searchability) Senior Business Analyst Technical Business Analyst Senior BA Technical BA Lead BA BA Consultant Data BA Data Business Analyst Market Data Analyst Risk Business Analyst Trading Business Analyst Requirements Engineer Systems Analyst Functional Analyst Data Platform Migration Cloud Migration Data & Analytics DnA Platform Data Mesh Data Lakehouse Data Product Owner Market Data Reference Data Curves Forward Curves Reconciliation Sign-off Trading Investment Banking ETRM CTRM Energy Trading Power Trading Gas Trading Commodities Financial Markets Risk Management VaR P&L Position Keeping Regulatory Reporting MiFID II FRTB EMIR REMIT Mesap Endur OpenLink Allegro RightAngle Aligne Refinitiv LSEG Bloomberg EEX EPEX ICE Trayport ZEMA Montel SQL REST API JSON Python Databricks Snowflake Azure Kafka Airflow JIRA Confluence Miro Lucidchart Postman Swagger OpenAPI Agile SAFe Scrum Switzerland Zurich Baden Remote Hybrid Contract Freelance Freiberuflich Selbstständig CHF Day Rate English German Deutsch.
