Senior Front Office IT Squad Lead & Business Analyst -- Fixed Income

Job Description

Senior Front Office IT Squad Lead & Business Analyst — Fixed Income

About the team

The Global Markets Pre-Trade IT team supports four Natixis Americas business lines: Macro/Commodities, GSF, Equity Solutions, and Credit. Our team brings together software developers and IT business analysts in a fast-paced trading environment, working closely with end users. We deliver local initiatives in New York and contribute to global programs coordinated with our Paris headquarters.

We support in-house applications for intraday risk and position management, trade pricing and booking across manual and electronic workflows, flow business, and position hedging. We also support vendor trading platforms used by our traders and salespeople.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Front Office IT Squad Lead & Business Analyst with deep expertise in fixed income markets, including bonds, repos, securities lending and borrowing, and related financing instruments. In this role, you will serve as a trusted partner to the business and lead an agile squad focused on optimizing electronic flow routing, transaction processing, and system performance.

You will balance squad leadership with hands-on, high-impact functional business analysis, helping translate business needs into effective solutions for our New York platform.

Key responsibilities

• Analyze business needs: Gather, assess, and document requirements across fixed income desks, including Rates, Credit, Repo/Financing, and Securities Finance.
• Design end-to-end workflows: Map complex trade workflows, from pre-trade pricing and order routing (Traffic) through booking, position keeping, and risk management, for products such as bonds, repos, total return swaps (TRS), and securities lending transactions.
• Develop functional specifications: Translate business requirements into clear process flows, functional specifications, and structured user stories using Jira and Confluence.
• Support modernization: Investigate legacy-system data flows, document current system behavior, and define clear target-state requirements.
• Lead agile delivery: Define the product vision, prioritize the backlog based on business value, and facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and other agile ceremonies.
• Coordinate resources: Plan and coordinate internal and external team resources to support timely, high-quality delivery.
• Manage scope and budget: Propose and monitor the budget for your area, manage dependencies, and communicate trade-offs transparently with stakeholders.
• Partner with the business: Build strong relationships with trading desks, Middle Office, and Risk teams to anticipate functional needs and align priorities.
• Provide expert production support: Apply Level 3 functional expertise to analyze complex production incidents affecting trading workflows and work with developers to help prevent recurrence.
• Support change and adoption: Ensure end users validate releases through user acceptance testing (UAT) and that appropriate training is provided for deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience: At least 6 years of experience as an IT business analyst or product owner in an international capital markets or investment banking environment.
• Fixed income expertise: Deep knowledge of fixed income instruments and workflows, including government and corporate bonds, repos and reverse repos, securities lending, and collateral management.
• Trade lifecycle knowledge: Strong functional understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle, including execution, booking, position keeping, profit and loss (P&L), risk, and downstream settlement.
• Agile leadership: Demonstrated experience as a product owner or squad lead in an Agile/Scrum environment, including backlog prioritization, user story writing, and facilitation of agile ceremonies.
• Stakeholder partnership: A track record of building trust and serving as a reliable partner to Front Office stakeholders, including traders and desk heads, as well as Middle Office teams.
• Data and system analysis: Strong SQL and data-mapping skills, with the ability to independently investigate legacy-system behavior and analyze data flows. Ability to read and navigate legacy codebases, including C# or proprietary scripting languages.
• Tools: Advanced proficiency with Jira and Confluence for project tracking and documentation.

Preferred qualifications

• Exposure to market risk metrics, such as intraday VaR, DV01, and spread risk, as well as risk data feeds.

The salary range for this position at a VP level will be between $150,000 - $180,000. Natixis is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Actual base salary will vary and will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, skills set, applicable licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Base salary is only one component of our total rewards package. Natixis also offers a generous benefits package, and you may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award depending on company and individual performance.

The salary range for this position at a Direcotr level will be between $180,000 - $220,000. Natixis is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. Actual base salary will vary and will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, skills set, applicable licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. Base salary is only one component of our total rewards package. Natixis also offers a generous benefits package, and you may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award depending on company and individual performance.