Front Office Subject Matter Expert (AI/Financial Markets)

Location: Remote within Italy; Milan is listed as the primary location.

Company

hirify.global develops an AI/ML-based data operating platform that organizes enterprise data into actionable information for risk, compliance, revenue, and business growth.

What you will do

• Define BFDM fields, schemas, validation rules, and data specifications for one or two owned asset classes.
• Convert market abuse typologies into Polaris trade surveillance scenarios and validate outputs with engineering and data science.
• Map asset classes to the Unified Risk Taxonomy, risk situations, and regulatory requirements.
• Support client meetings, product demonstrations, and RFPs by answering front office, data, and surveillance questions.
• Specify agent-based pipelines, review AI-agent outputs, and contribute changes through Git-based workflows in GitLab.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in a front office role, market surveillance, or front office data at an exchange, trading venue, market data provider, or trading technology vendor.
• Practitioner-level knowledge of at least one asset class, including its instruments, venues, trading conventions, and pricing.
• Understanding of execution, sales, research, risk, order handling, quoting, and hedging workflows on a trading desk.
• Knowledge of market abuse typologies such as insider dealing, spoofing, layering, wash trading, front running, and benchmark manipulation.
• Working knowledge of EU MAR, MiFID II, CFTC rules, and SEC rules, plus structured data modelling concepts.
• English is required; the role is open to remote candidates within Italy.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows.
• Additional languages.

Culture & Benefits

• Global mission with a community working across locations worldwide.
• High-impact role with significant learning and innovation opportunities.
• Competitive compensation with 100% bonus pay integrated.
• Individual career development budget.
• Generous time off and a flexible work schedule.

Hiring process

• Initial discussions cover salary, location, experience, skills, and values alignment.
• Technical and behavioral competency interviews follow.
• A practical work simulation is presented and discussed with colleagues and managers, followed by meetings with senior leaders.