Senior Product Analysis and Design Specialist

OSTTRA India

The Role: Senior Product Analysis and Design Specialist

The Team: The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Capital Markets Technology professionals, who build, support and protect the applications that operate our network.  The technology landscape includes high-performance, high-volume applications as well as compute intensive applications, leveraging contemporary microservices, cloud-based architectures.

The Impact: Together, we build, support, protect and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day. Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets.

What’s in it for you:
Solution Engineering has a requirement for a senior Business Analyst and data mapping/architect SME with 15+ years of experience to support the Jigsaw golden trade record and reference data platform that bridges our Trade Processing and Trade Lifecycle divisions for Rates, Credit, FX and Equity asset classes. As a Senior Product Analysis and Design Specialist, you’ll be working closely with product owners, development, QA and operation teams in an Agile environment.

The role requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational / coordination skills, and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will be process-oriented and have a good understanding of product development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to adapt to changes.

The candidate will work closely with other Business Analysts and Product Managers to deliver project change.

The candidate will be expected to work with teams in India, Singapore, Tokyo, New York and London and build relationships internally as well as externally with clients.

Responsibilities:

• Experience of requirements elicitation, structured analysis and stakeholder management in a waterfall and/or agile environment.

• Able to undertake gap analysis and express in the form of user stories or functional specifications and communicate to Development and QA teams.

• Collaborate with Development and Quality Assurance to ensure implementation meets business requirements.

• Product Acceptance testing of new features during the development phase & review of test cases.

• Able to identify options for potential solutions, including assessment of technical and business suitability.

• Able to conduct public presentation of concepts and ideas comfortably.

• Knowledge of XML/FpML/FIXML/FIX/JSON or other messaging formats and the ability to map between these formats is essential.

• Equities, ETD, Rates, FX and Credit Derivatives knowledge would be highly desirable.

• Experience working as a Product owner in an agile scrum team and a keen interest in new technology would be beneficial.

• Experience of communicating UX requirements for Graphical User Interfaces through wire framing would be beneficial.

What We’re Looking For:

• Post graduate – Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree preferred.

• Degree in related subject.

• 15+ years of relevant professional experience.

• An understanding of financial derivatives terms and principals.

• Prior Financial Services IT experience.

• Strong Analytical & Communication skills.

• Good Knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, requirement documentation, stakeholder management, use case and user story definition and other Business Analysis techniques.

• Exposure to SQL, Object-oriented languages (general technology know-how).

• Strong knowledge of XML/FpML/FIXML/FIX/JSON

• Data architecture and mapping skills between various messaging formats essential.

• JSON schema knowledge/application

• Good knowledge of OTC derivatives

• Commercial awareness and financial services experience.

• Qualifications in Business Analysis / Product Management related subjects.

• Microsoft Office / Visio skills.

• Demonstrate experience in working in a product management environment and an organizational setting.

• Proven experience in project leadership and decision making.

The Location: Gurgaon, India

About Company Statement:

OSTTRA is a market leader in derivatives post-trade processing, bringing innovation, expertise, processes and networks together to solve the post-trade challenges of global financial markets.  OSTTRA operates cross-asset post-trade processing networks, providing a proven suite of Credit Risk, Trade Workflow and Optimisation services. Together these solutions streamline post-trade workflows, enabling firms to connect to counterparties and utilities, manage credit risk, reduce operational risk and optimise processing to drive post-trade efficiencies. 

 
OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years:  MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset.  These businesses have an exemplary track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure and bring together an established community of market participants comprising all trading relationships and paradigms, connected using powerful integration and transformation capabilities.

About OSTTRA
Candidates should note that OSTTRA is an independent firm, jointly owned by S&P Global and CME Group.  As part of the joint venture, S&P Global provides recruitment services to OSTTRA - however, successful candidates will be interviewed and directly employed by OSTTRA, joining our global team of more than 1,200 post trade experts.

OSTTRA was formed in 2021 through the combination of four businesses that have been at the heart of post trade evolution and innovation for the last 20+ years:  MarkitServ, Traiana, TriOptima and Reset.  OSTTRA is a joint venture, owned 50/50 by S&P Global and CME Group.

 With an outstanding track record of developing and supporting critical market infrastructure, our combined network connects thousands of market participants to streamline end to end workflows - from trade capture at the point of execution, through portfolio optimization, to clearing and settlement.

Joining the OSTTRA team is a unique opportunity to help build a bold new business with an outstanding heritage in financial technology, playing a central role in supporting global financial markets. 
Learn more at www.osttra.com.

What’s In It For You?

Benefits:

We take care of you, so you can take care of business. We care about our people. That’s why we provide everything you—and your career—need to thrive at S&P Global.
Our benefits include: 

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.

• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.

• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.

• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company-matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.

• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best-in class benefits for families.

• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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