Senior Business Analyst (Trading Platforms & Derivatives)

TL;DR

Senior Business Analyst (Trading Platforms & Derivatives): Capturing and structuring business and functional requirements for trading platforms, structured notes, and complex derivatives with an accent on financial product modeling, technical documentation, and stakeholder alignment. Focus on translating autocallables, barriers, and payoff structures into actionable specifications, validating trade data with SQL, and supporting Agile delivery.

Location: Lisbon or Porto, Portugal, with flexible remote work up to 3 days per week. Existing legal right to work in Europe is required.

Company

hirify.global provides technology and business analysis services for financial markets and trading platforms.

What you will do

• Gather and analyze business and functional requirements for derivatives trading platforms and structured notes.
• Translate autocallables, barriers, payoff variations, and other financial structures into clear technical documentation.
• Coordinate requirements between Front Office trading desks, Quantitative Analysts, Product Owners, and engineering teams.
• Support Agile delivery through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and user story creation.
• Use SQL and data analysis to validate trade data and specification accuracy.
• Apply knowledge of APIs, JSON, XML, REST, and data modeling to design robust solutions.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience as a Business Analyst in capital markets or derivatives trading.
• Strong knowledge of structured notes, certificates, warrants, embedded options, autocallables, barriers, and payoff structures.
• Understanding of bonds, options, swaps, futures, forwards, derivatives pricing, Black-Scholes, and Greeks.
• Experience with Agile SDLC practices, Scrum or Kanban, Jira, and Confluence.
• Excellent SQL, data modeling, and API integration skills, including JSON, XML, and REST.
• Fluent English is mandatory, and an existing legal right to work in Europe is required.

Nice to have

• Basic programming skills in Python or R.
• Hands-on experience with capital markets platforms such as Sophis.
• Certifications in financial markets or business analysis.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid work arrangement with remote work available up to 3 days per week.
• Opportunity to work on sophisticated trading solutions in the capital markets domain.
• Close collaboration across Front Office, Quantitative Analysis, Product, Backend, Frontend, and DevOps functions.