<![CDATA[Alquemy: jobboards]]> https://CAREERS.ALQUEMY.COM/ en-us <![CDATA[Senior Business Analyst - Financial Markets]]> We are seeking a versatile and highly analytical Senior Business Analyst to join our Montreal Client .

In this dynamic role, you will act as the vital bridge between business stakeholders and technical delivery teams, translating complex business needs into crisp, actionable technical specifications.

The ideal candidate is framework-agnostic, comfortable navigating everything from modern Agile sprints to structured Waterfall environments. You are not just a documenter—you are a problem solver who actively uncovers system dependencies, models future-state processes, and partners with Product Owners to drive successful system delivery from conception through post-implementation.
Key Responsibilities
  • Requirement Lifecycle Management: Partner closely with Product Owners and cross-functional teams to elicit, analyze, and document comprehensive business requirements. Convert these into traceable user stories, story maps, functional specifications, and use cases.
  • Process & Data Mapping: Model current- and target-state business processes to illustrate system impacts. Conduct deep-dive system and data mapping, actively identifying solution interdependencies across architects, subject matter experts (SMEs), and downstream teams.
  • Cross-Functional Liaison: Translate business needs into technical specifications that empower development and QA teams to deliver exact business functions. Participate actively in technical design reviews and architectural walk-throughs.
  • Product & Compliance Documentation: Create and maintain a robust documentation library covering all aspects of the product, including system functionality, operational runbooks, compliance requirements, and product launch processes.
  • Testing & Implementation Support: Support QA activities through test plan/case consultation, lead defect triage with application teams, and provide hands-on support during system go-live, including user training and post-implementation stabilization.
  • Adaptive Delivery: Seamlessly operate across various delivery methodologies, including Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall frameworks. Stay ahead of the curve on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory shifts.
Core Skills & Experience Required Business Analysis Excellence
  • Process Modeling: Proven ability to design and map complex current and target-state processes, controls, and data reporting flows (ideally including impact assessments supporting trading or risk monitoring environments).
  • Requirement Integrity: Skilled in writing clear, precise, and traceable business requirements, maintaining their integrity throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
  • E2E Delivery Support: Solid experience defining user acceptance test (UAT) cases, managing defect resolution, and facilitating smooth operational handovers to business users.
  • Scope Management: Demonstrated ability to scope business analysis activities, estimate timelines, and proactively manage your own planning and deliverables.
Analytical & Problem Solving
  • Root-Cause Analysis: Strong analytical mindset with a passion for performing deep dives into complex, multi-layered system and business issues.
  • Creative Thinking: Ability to challenge status-quo assumptions constructively, delivering efficient, robust, and sustainable long-term solutions.
Leadership, Communication & Interpersonal Skills
  • Cross-Functional Mobilization: Natural leadership capability with the ability to build trusted relationships and align diverse teams (Data, Risk, Legal, Finance, and IT) around common project delivery objectives.
  • Consultative Approach: Highly skilled in supporting Product Owners and executive stakeholders in data-driven decision-making and delivery prioritization.
  • Versatility & Growth Mindset: Active listener with a high degree of adaptability. You are comfortable stretching beyond the traditional "BA box" to chip in wherever needed to ensure project success.
]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 EDT 1 <![CDATA[Senior Business Analyst]]> Our Client is seeking a Senior Business Analyst specializing in Cleared Derivatives and Post-Trade Operations.

This role is designed for a technical "analytical detective"—someone who genuinely thrives on navigating complex regulatory rules, digging into granular system architectures, and bringing a high level of operational rigor to their work.

You will own the end-to-end business analysis lifecycle for our derivatives processing ecosystem. Acting as the critical bridge between the trading desks, clearing houses, external vendors, and technical engineering teams, you will ensure our post-trade pipelines remain robust, modern, and fully compliant.

Experience required
  • Derivatives & Clearing Mastery: Deep, practical experience with cleared derivatives and post-trade operations. You possess a comprehensive understanding of exchange workflows, middle-office allocation, clearing house mechanisms, and integration pipelines.
  • Exchange Onboarding (CME): Direct exposure to major clearing houses and exchanges, with a strong preference for CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) onboarding and connectivity workflows.
  • Platform Expertise: Strong hands-on familiarity with institutional derivatives back-office and processing platforms—specifically ION / XTP (or equivalent systems like GMI).
  • Regulatory Acumen: A solid understanding of global financial compliance, with direct experience navigating U.S. Derivatives regulations.
Key Responsibilities Workflow Engineering & System Architecture
  • End-to-End Workflow Optimization: Support and optimize the complete post-trade lifecycle, encompassing trade processing, clearing house allocation, downstream integration, and automated regulatory reporting.
  • Process & Data Mapping: Perform deep-dive system, data, and message mapping (e.G., FIX, FpML, or proprietary clearing formats). Document current and target-state process models to identify critical solution interdependencies across upstream/downstream environments.
  • Requirement Architecture: Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and Cleared Derivatives SMEs to elicit, challenge, and document complex business requirements using standard enterprise documentation templates.
Technical Liaison & Agile Delivery
  • Agile & Traditional Delivery: Translate intricate financial workflows into crisp functional specifications, user stories, story mapping, and explicit acceptance criteria. Seamlessly adapt your approach across Agile, Hybrid, or Waterfall frameworks depending on project scope.
  • Technical Translation: Act as a bilingual liaison between business stakeholders (risk, compliance, operations) and core technical development/QA teams, translating regulatory and business needs into precise technical rules.
  • Artifact Ownership: Build and maintain pristine documentation for all dimensions of the clearing platform, including product operations, regulatory compliance audits, exchange launch procedures, and underlying system functionalities.
Testing, Go-Live & Platform Governance
  • QA & Testing Consultation: Partner with QA and UAT teams to consult on comprehensive test plans and exchange certification scenarios. Drive and manage defect triage alongside targeted application teams.
  • Implementation & Support: Provide hands-on leadership during critical exchange cutovers and system implementations, delivering operational runbooks, user training, and post-implementation hypercare.
  • Industry Vigilance: Stay continuously ahead of the curve regarding shifting exchange rules, margin requirements, clearing house mandates, and emerging fintech trends.
Requirements
  • Education: University degree or college diploma in Finance, Computer Science, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Experience: 7+ years of Business Analysis experience within Capital Markets, with a distinct footprint in exchange-traded derivatives (ETD), clearing utilities, or prime brokerage.
  • Attributes: Exceptional active listening skills, high adaptability, and a willingness to stretch beyond the traditional "BA box" to ensure complex, high-stakes infrastructure deliveries succeed.
]]> Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 EDT 1 <![CDATA[Principal Systems Engineer, Digital Payload]]> Role Overview Lead the front-end architecture and design of advanced LEO/MEO communication satellite constellations featuring high-data-rate systems. You will drive end-to-end payload optimization from initial proposal through the full program lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities

  • Architectural Leadership: Lead design and end-to-end analysis of high-capacity communication payloads and constellation telecommunications.

  • Requirements & Trades: Perform detailed trade studies and flow down system requirements to subsystems (Digital Processors, Phased Array Antennas, Optical ISLs, and Feeder Subsystems).

  • Capacity & Performance: Evaluate satellite capacity and lead technical design reviews across the space program lifecycle.

  • Stakeholder Engagement: Liaise with customers/program leads and supervise the generation of comprehensive test plans.
Required Qualifications

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in Electrical/Computer Engineering, Physics, or a related field.

  • Experience: 15+ years in payload engineering, including 10+ years in complex systems architecture.

  • Technical Expertise: * Strong background in LEO/MEO constellation design and RF/Digital/Optical performance budgets.

    • Deep knowledge of SDR, signal processing, routing protocols, and beamformed payloads.

    • Familiarity with 5G NTN, space environments, and orbital mechanics.

  • Soft Skills: Proven track record in team leadership (mentoring junior engineers), customer relations, and Agile methodologies.

  • Communication: Excellent written and verbal skills in French (required) and English (favorable).
Core Areas of Expertise

  • Systems Design: Complex digital communication systems, user links (FWD/RTN), and feeder links.

  • Hardware Management: Experience managing suppliers for digital and RF hardware.

  • V&V: Extensive experience in integration, testing, and V&V of complex satellite payloads.

Successful candidates must obtain and hold security clearance at the reliability status level, and pass security assessment for the Controlled Goods Program (CGP) and ITAR.
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