Lab49 is looking for a Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner to join their team in delivering software solutions for leading financial institutions, specifically focusing on analyzing, designing, and delivering enterprise-grade platforms that support risk data management, risk analytics, and regulatory compliance for top-tier financial institutions.
Requirements
- Deep understanding of how risk data flows through enterprise platforms and how risk is calculated, monitored, and reported.
- Strong experience gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements
- Hands-on experience in Agile environments — managing sprints, grooming backlogs, and writing detailed user stories.
- Solid understanding of risk data architecture, data models, and integration patterns.
- Experience with risk data lakes, cloud migration of risk systems, or real-time risk architecture.
- Knowledge of data analysis tools (SQL, Excel, Power BI/Tableau) for validation and reconciliation.
- Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, or infrastructure-related aspects of risk platforms is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and document current-state and target-state architectures for Market Risk, Credit Risk, and Counterparty Risk systems.
- Elicit and define business, functional, and technical requirements for platform components.
- Own and maintain the product backlog, writing clear and actionable user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with developers, data engineers, quants, and platform architects to ensure technical alignment with business objectives.
- Support integration of risk platforms with upstream systems (e.g., trade capture, market data) and downstream consumers (e.g., reporting, regulatory).
- Work with risk and compliance teams to ensure platform alignment with regulatory requirements
- Develop and maintain clear documentation: process flows, data mappings, FAQs, support runbooks, and training materials.
Other
- 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or hybrid role within financial services, with a strong focus on risk technology.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to interface between business, technology, and data science teams.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across risk, technology, compliance, and project management functions.
- Excellent analytical and documentation skills, with attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving.
- Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams to define and deliver solutions across risk platform initiatives.
