Senior UAT Environment Manager - Market Risk Technology

Job Description

Senior UAT Environment Manager – Market Risk Technology

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Company Overview:

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Business Integration Partners (BIP) is Europe’s fastest growing digital consulting company and are on track to reach the Top 20 by 2030, with an expanding global footprint in the US (New York, Charlotte, Chicago, and Houston). Operating at the intersection of business and technology, we design, develop, and deliver sustainable solutions at pace and scale, creating greater value for our customers, employees, shareholders, and society.

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BIP specializes in high-impact consulting services across multiple industries with 6,000 employees worldwide. Our Financial Services business serves Capital Markets, Insurance and Payments verticals, supplemented with Data & AI, Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance, Change Management and Digital Transformation practices. We integrate deep industry expertise with business, technology, and quantitative disciplines to deliver high-impact results for our clients.

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BIP is currently expanding its footprint in the United States, focusing on growing its Capital Markets and Financial Services lines. Our teams operate at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and data to help our clients drive smarter decisions, reduce risks, and stay ahead in a fast-evolving market environment.

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About the Role

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We are seeking an experienced Senior UAT Environment Manager to lead the coordination, governance, and effective use of a shared Market Risk testing environment supporting multiple trading desks and lines of business.

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This role will oversee the testing pipeline for changes originating from Front Office technology, pricing models, market and trade data, and upstream applications. The successful candidate will combine strong Market Risk knowledge, technical understanding, analytical capability, and senior stakeholder management to ensure changes are evaluated through a controlled and efficient process.

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The position requires ownership of testing coordination and the ability to help explain how and why upstream changes affect downstream risk calculations, particularly Value at Risk (VaR).

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Key Responsibilities

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• Own the end-to-end Market Risk UAT pipeline, managing incoming requests, priorities, dependencies, testing schedules, and completion criteria.
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• Coordinate access to shared test environments across trading desks, business units, Front Office technology, quants, and upstream application teams.
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• Assess each request’s scope, business purpose, technical requirements, data dependencies, and urgency.
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• Direct technical resources responsible for environment setup, configuration, data loading, test execution, and subsequent reconfiguration or teardown.
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• Ensure appropriate test scenarios and Market Risk calculations are executed against agreed baselines.
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• Coordinate analysis of VaR and other risk results, identifying material differences and supporting investigation of the underlying drivers.
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• Partner with risk managers, quants, and engineering teams to determine whether changes arise from pricing models, positions, risk factors, market data, or application behavior.
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• Ensure material impacts receive the required assessment, documentation, and governance review.
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• Maintain clear reporting on environment availability, testing progress, outstanding issues, results, and expected completion dates.
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• Resolve competing priorities, communicate constraints, escalate blockers, and drive accountability across participating teams.
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• Improve testing throughput through better scheduling, automation, environment utilization, and process standardization.
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Required Qualifications

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• 8+ years minimum experience in Market Risk technology, UAT leadership, risk-platform testing, or test-environment management within financial services.
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• Strong understanding of VaR and how pricing models, trading positions, market data, and upstream system changes affect downstream Market Risk calculations.
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• Experience coordinating complex testing initiatives across multiple trading desks or lines of business.
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• Working knowledge of risk-system data flows, upstream feeds, environment configuration, batch processing, and technical dependencies.
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• Ability to compare risk results against baselines and support root-cause analysis of material differences.
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• Strong planning, prioritization, dependency management, and delivery governance capabilities.
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• Demonstrated ability to engage senior risk managers, traders, quants, business stakeholders, and technology teams.
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• Excellent communication skills, with the confidence to challenge requests, manage expectations, and drive decisions.
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• Ability to operate independently and bring structure to a complex, fast-paced environment.
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Preferred Qualifications

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• Experience supporting pricing-model changes, Market Risk transformation, or enterprise risk-platform modernization.
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• Familiarity with model-change governance and risk-impact assessment processes.
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• Experience using SQL, Python, or reporting tools to investigate testing results and support analysis.
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• Experience improving shared-environment capacity, automating testing workflows, or introducing repeatable regression processes.
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Compensation

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The base salary range for this role is 140,000- 180,000 per annum.

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Benefits:

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• Choice of medical, dental, vision insurance.
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• Voluntary benefits.
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• Short- and long-term disability.
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• HSA and FSAs.
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• Matching 401k.
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• Discretionary performance bonus.
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• Employee referral bonus.
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• Employee assistance program.
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• 11 public holidays.
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• 20 days PTO.
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• 7 Sick Days.
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• PTO buy and sell program.
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• Volunteer days.
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• Paid parental leave.
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• Remote/hybrid work environment support.
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For more information about BIP US, visit

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Equal Employment Opportunity:

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It is BIP US Consulting policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all individuals based on job-related qualifications and ability to perform a job, without regard to age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or marital status, and to maintain a non-discriminatory environment free from intimidation, harassment or bias based upon these grounds.

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BIP US provides a reasonable range of compensation for our roles. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, education, level of experience, and knowledge.

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