Trade Surveillance Specialist – Commodities & Crypto

As a Trade Surveillance Specialist at Behavox, you are the primary owner of one or two related asset classes within the Subject Matter Expert team. You ensure that the Behavox Financial Data Model and the Unified Risk Taxonomy reflect how trading desks, venues and regulation actually work, enabling both preventive controls such as conflicts of interest detection and detective controls such as trade surveillance.

What you'll do

• Define asset class data specifications for the Behavox Financial Data Model, including fields, schemas and validation rules, and verify data outputs against them
• Transform market abuse typologies into risk scenarios for Polaris, the Behavox trade surveillance product, anchor them to regulatory enforcement cases, and validate outputs with engineering and data science teams
• Map owned asset classes to the Unified Risk Taxonomy and regulatory requirements, maintaining current coverage
• Support the revenue team in client meetings, demos and requests for proposal by answering front office, data and surveillance questions alongside senior team members, and produce reviewed collateral
• Write clear specifications for agent-based pipelines, review and validate their outputs, and contribute changes through Git-based workflows in GitLab

What you bring

• 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 of: commodities and environmental products, digital assets and event contracts, fixed income and structured products, equities and funds, or foreign exchange and money markets, including instruments, venues, trading conventions and pricing
• Understanding of how execution, sales, research and risk functions operate on a trading desk, including order handling, quoting and hedging
• Knowledge of market abuse behaviors such as insider dealing, spoofing and layering, wash trading, front running and benchmark manipulation, and how they appear in trade, order and market data
• Working knowledge of trading conduct rules including the EU Market Abuse Regulation, the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, and US rules from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission
• Understanding of structured data modelling concepts such as entities, schemas, validation rules, versioning, and data quality issues across trade, order, market and reference data
• English language proficiency

Nice to have

• Fluency in languages beyond English
• Hands-on experience with agentic workflows

What we offer

• Highly competitive compensation with 100% bonus already integrated
• Individual career development budget for learning and growth
• Generous time-off policy and flexible work schedule
• Remote-friendly role, open for candidates within Italy

About Behavox

Behavox shapes how businesses harness data as actionable information for enterprise risk management, compliance and business growth across multinational companies worldwide. The company builds a data operating platform with AI/ML-based solutions that aggregate, analyze and act on data to uncover opportunities and solve problems across global enterprises.