Senior Technical Lead Market Surveillance

Job Overview

Job Description

Nair Systems is currently looking for Senior Technical Lead Market Surveillance for our UAE operations with the following Skill set and terms & conditions.
Skill Sets :
Key Responsibilities:
Platform Integration & Exchange Onboarding:
• Lead technical efforts to integrate new exchanges, venues, and data sources into the
surveillance platform, coordinating across vendor, internal infrastructure, and external exchange
teams.
• Facilitate onboarding of new data feeds (e.g., order, trade, drop copy, market data) including
format validation, protocol mapping (e.g., FIX), normalization, and certification.
• Manage and support testing cycles with exchanges and venues, including coordination of system
integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), and issue triage.
• Understanding of exchange architecture in terms of OMS (Order management system),
data matching engines, FIX node processes, data validators, FIX tag / value pairs, FIX
message types and their usage within session / application level management.
Vendor Coordination & Change Management:
• Act as the primary technical point of contact with the market surveillance provider, ensuring the
vendor delivers against SLAs and functional requirements.
• Oversee release coordination, environment management (e.g., test, UAT, prod), and feature
deployments in partnership with the vendor and internal teams.
• Drive change request processes, track enhancement requests, and validate rule and
configuration changes prior to production deployment.
• Ensure the SaaS platform continues to meet operational, regulatory, and security expectations.
Confidential
Operational Oversight:
• Monitor platform availability, data completeness, and alert performance to ensure continuous
surveillance coverage.
• Support incident triage and resolution in collaboration with the SaaS vendor, DevOps, and
compliance stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain dashboards, operational runbooks, and incident response protocols.
• Drive regular vendor review sessions to review KPIs, issues, and platform roadmap alignment.
Cross-Functional Leadership:
• Partner with Compliance, Surveillance Operations, Legal, and IT Security to ensure surveillance
capabilities align with regulatory mandates and internal controls.
• Represent technical interests in vendor governance meetings, regulatory audits, and internal
control assessments.
• Translate compliance requirements into actionable technical tasks and track their delivery with
vendor and internal teams.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in financial services technology, including 3+ years in a technical
leadership or systems integration role.
• Strong understanding of market structure, trade lifecycle, and regulatory surveillance needs
across asset classes.
• Proven experience working with third-party SaaS or managed surveillance platforms and external
data providers (e.g., exchanges, brokers).
• Familiarity with integration protocols such as FIX, SFTP, REST APIs, and data
transformation/validation processes.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Skills:
• Exposure to major market surveillance platforms (e.g., Nasdaq SMARTS, Eventus Validus, Scila,
ACA, etc.).
• Experience in network architecture and an understanding of end-to-end firewall policies, static
routes and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as CAT, MAR, MiFID II, and SEC Rule 15c3-5.
• Experience managing vendor relationships in a regulated environment.
Confidential
• Working knowledge of monitoring and observability tools, and cloud/SaaS operations.
• Experience in network architecture and an understanding of end-to-end firewall policies,
static routes and troubleshooting.
• backend server side management is a bonus - understanding of OS management and
Linux.
8 to 10 Years.
Joining time frame: 2 weeks (maximum 1 month)
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