Front Office Subject Matter Expert (Fintech)

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

Company

hirify.global develops an AI/ML-based enterprise data operating platform for risk, compliance, revenue, and data-driven business operations.

What you will do

• Define BFDM fields, schemas, and validation rules for one or two owned financial asset classes and validate data outputs.
• Convert market abuse typologies into Polaris trade-surveillance risk scenarios, connect them to regulatory enforcement cases, and validate results with engineering and data science.
• Map asset classes to URT risk situations and regulatory requirements while keeping coverage current.
• Support client meetings, product demos, and RFPs by answering front-office, data, and surveillance questions and preparing SME-reviewed collateral.
• 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: commodities and environmental products; digital assets and event contracts; fixed income and structured products; equities and funds; or foreign exchange and money markets. Knowledge must include instruments, venues, trading conventions, and pricing.
• Understanding of front-office workflows, including execution, sales, research, risk functions, order handling, quoting, and hedging on a trading desk.
• Knowledge of market abuse typologies, including insider dealing, spoofing and layering, wash trading, front running, and benchmark manipulation, and their appearance in trade, order, and market data.
• Working knowledge of financial markets regulation, including EU Market Abuse Regulation, MiFID II, and relevant CFTC and SEC rules.
• Understanding of structured data modelling for trade, order, market, and reference data, including data quality, entities, schemas, validation rules, and versioning.
• English is required.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-friendly work with a flexible work schedule.
• Global community with colleagues in locations around the world.
• Career development budget for learning and growth.
• Generous time-off policy.
• Competitive compensation with 100% bonus pay integrated.
• High-impact work focused on bold innovation and learning.

Hiring process

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