Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and maintain detection models and rules that identify market abuse across trading data. You will create partner-facing surveillance reports, investigate flagged cases, validate and tune detection quality with partners, maintain data quality, and translate fraud patterns into actionable evidence-backed findings.
Requirements
- Deep trade-surveillance or market-risk experience
- Hands-on knowledge of wash trading, hedging, reverse trading, collusion, and copy trading
- Knowledge of futures and derivatives trading mechanics, including fills, positions, and P&L
- Strong SQL skills
- Experience with a cloud data warehouse; BigQuery and Athena are preferred
- Ability to investigate large transactional datasets
- Ability to design and analytically defend detection rules or anomaly models
- 10+ years of data analytics or data science experience
- Ability to maintain data quality and communicate technical findings to partners and executives
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve detection models and rules that flag market abuse across trading data
- Own partner-facing surveillance reporting from standardized end-of-day reports toward real-time monitoring
- Validate true and false positives with evaluation and prop-firm partners
- Calibrate detection quality and tune thresholds and rules
- Collaborate with partners on custom reporting and solution feasibility
- Translate fraud patterns into tunable detection logic
- Maintain surveillance-data quality and hygiene
- Investigate flagged cases and produce evidence-backed findings
- Continuously reduce false positives and identify emerging fraud patterns
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with up to 3.5% company match
- 23 days of annual paid time off
- Seven paid holidays
- 20 additional flex remote days annually for Chicago-based employees
- Six company-wide office-optional weeks tied to major holidays
- Five conditional holidays annually
- One service day annually
- Paid parental bonding leave
- Health, vision, and dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance fully covered by NinjaTrader