Business Analyst, Risk Data Governance

At Intercontinental Exchange, our exchanges and clearing houses across North America, Europe and Asia, deliver risk solutions across asset classes and time zones. Whether its hedging, investing or capital raising, our markets, clearing houses and data help transform challenges into opportunities. As a Business Analyst, you will join a team that is responsible for building and supporting a critical system that that provides reference and market data to our risk systems to manage end-of-margin requirements for customer trading portfolios.

As a Business Analyst within the Risk Data Governance (RDG) platform, you will be responsible for reviewing, and managing the RDG workflow in various production, and non-prod environments, as well as assisting with product launches, procuring relevant data, reports management, and be part of the team that is the first line of contact for any inquiries related to the functional aspects of the RDG platform. You will also be responsible for drafting business and functional requirements to support development and implementation of quality standards defined in the risk data governance framework for data validation and establish processes for the monitoring, reporting, and transformation of data. In this role, you will coordinate the translation of business/product requirements to system requirements including functional specifications, use-cases, and logical flow modeling.

Responsibilities • Work independently to create requirements and resource materials for our reference data systems that can accommodate wide range of product designs and downstream systems • Support implementation of the technology platforms responsible for building Risk and Data governance applications • Act as a liaison between the business and technology areas to ensure that data-related business requirements are clearly defined, communicated and well understood and considered as part of operational prioritization and planning • Define indicators of performance and quality metrics and ensure compliance with data related policies, standards, roles and responsibilities, and adoption requirements • Analyze and resolve alerts, errors, or configuration issues arising out of the platform’s data validations • Coordinate price remediation where required as result of the alerts • Periodic review of risk data governance criteria calibration • Assist operations with incident resolution • Follow changes in market trends as they relate to data governance Knowledge and Experience • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Finance, Economics, Mathematics or similar fields • 2 years’ experience with Energy, Commodity or Financials Futures and Option markets required • 2 years’ software product development, data analysis, quality assurance, or related experience • Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills; technical and functional business writing skills required • Ability to effectively facilitate requirements gathering sessions, reviews, and issue resolution involving multiple stakeholders • SQL experience required; ability to execute and refine database queries for data analysis • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio)—Strong Excel skills required • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines • Must possess a good understanding of the software development lifecycle Preferred • A general technical background encompassing application programming, database, and system design principles • Experience or exposure to Python programming language