Senior Trade Surveillance Officer

As a Senior Trade Surveillance Officer at Bitvavo, you will own the trade surveillance program end to end for a market leader in digital assets trading across the Netherlands and Europe. You will strengthen the second line defence against market abuse across MiCAR and MiFID II regulated trading activities, conducting market abuse risk assessments, designing detection coverage, investigating suspicious orders and transactions, and deciding on regulatory filings. This is a senior individual contributor role where you operate independently, translate regulatory complexity into practical controls, and serve as the internal expert on trade surveillance.

What you'll do

• Own the market abuse risk assessment, review and maintain it across products, venues, client types, trading strategies and market structure
• Own and continuously improve the trade surveillance framework covering insider dealing, unlawful disclosure, and market manipulation under MAR, MiFID II/MiFIR and MiCAR
• Assess and extend surveillance coverage against new products, services, trading venues and market structure changes, mapping each scenario back to the risk assessment
• Manage the quality and completeness of order, trade, reference and communications data feeding the surveillance system
• Monitor feed latency and alert generation latency, and define acceptable time-to-detect and time-to-review thresholds by risk
• Triage alerts, assess and investigate suspicious orders and transactions, document findings, and decide on and file Suspicious Transaction and Order Reports (STORs) with the relevant competent authority without delay
• Drive significant cross-functional projects such as surveillance system tuning, transaction reporting quality reviews, and insider list process redesign with a high degree of autonomy and accountability
• Own maintenance of the trade surveillance policy, insider list, personal account dealing controls, alert logic, and management information that improves both compliance outcomes and team efficiency
• Partner with Trading, Legal, Risk, and Product to deliver strategic compliance outcomes, including new product reviews, market structure changes, and regulatory change projects

What you bring

• Hands-on experience running, tuning and calibrating trade surveillance systems, and leading market abuse investigations from alert to closure, including STOR decision-making
• 6+ years of relevant compliance, surveillance, or regulatory experience with a strong focus on market abuse in a MiFID II or MiCAR regulated company
• Comfort working directly with order book, trade and communications data, ideally with SQL or Python, to build a clear, defensible narrative
• Deep, practical knowledge of MAR, MiFID II/MiFIR, and related technical standards such as RTS 22 transaction reporting and insider list requirements
• Ability to engage directly with regulators and senior stakeholders, including under time pressure
• Excellent written communication skills, producing investigation reports and management information that are clear, well-evidenced, and decision-ready

Nice to have

• Knowledge of MiCAR

About Bitvavo

Bitvavo is a digital assets trading platform that has established itself as the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, with over two million users exchanging tens of billions of digital assets annually. The company is regulated under MiCAR and MiFID II frameworks.