Job Description

Mandate Overview:

- The client is looking for three senior product owners tosupport the expansion of the fixed income, equities and derivatives desks. Therole is primarily a product role: backlog prioritization, roadmap, trade-offsbetween value, risk, capacity, vendors and timelines, and visibility on valuedelivered. Business depth is the main filter: sell-side activities, fixedincome trade lifecycle, interest rate derivatives, real-time pricing and curvecalibration. The client accepts a business analyst or PO background, providedit was built in capital markets on technology solutions for at least 5 years.The PO guides and challenges the deliverables of business and functionalanalysts, and collaborates on business acceptance testing.

- Candidate sought: a senior PO or business analystwith at least 5 years on sell-side capital markets technology solutions, withhands-on command of fixed income and interest rate derivatives. Their resumeshows ownership of a product backlog or roadmap, as well as work on marketdata, curves or trading platforms.

Requirements

Required:

- Sell-side capital markets activities, fixed income andderivatives first (sales and trading platforms, order management, fixed incometrade lifecycle, market and reference data, accounting, risk)

- Financial products (quoting mechanisms, bond types, yieldcurves, credit ratings, trade valuation, fixed income derivatives such asfutures and swaps, risk hedging, regulation)

- Derivatives and fixed income desk operations, real-timepricing, market data consumption and pricing curve calibration





- Experience with project phases or the lifecycle of acontinuously evolving product

- Hands-on experience with Jira, Confluence and backlogmanagement

- Capital markets platforms (Bloomberg, TOMS, Bloomberg DataLicense, BPIPE, CanDeal, GLMX, Tradeweb, ION/Fidessa, Murex or similarsolutions)

- Market and reference data issues (rate curves, data flows,quality, reconciliation)

- Contribution to solution design, feasibility analyses,estimates, planning and release preparation

- Communication, prioritization, problem solving and trade-offmanagement (value, risk, capacity, vendors, timelines)

- French and English bilingualism, "required or stronglypreferred" per the client's wording

Asset:

- Experience in banking, financial services or a regulatedenvironment ("significant asset")

- Knowledge of MiFID II, Dodd-Frank or transaction reporting

Profiles to Exclude:

- Profile whose capital markets experience is limited tobuy-side or wealth management, with no sell-side fixed income or derivativesproject on the resume.

- PO or business analyst profile from retail banking, paymentsor insurance, presenting banking experience as equivalent to capital markets.

- Profile that worked in capital markets as a trader, inoperations or back office, with no technology solution project as an analyst orPO.

- Scrum Master or agile coach profile with no demonstratedproduct backlog ownership or business requirements gathering.

- Project manager profile whose resume shows schedule andbudget tracking, without requirements definition or backlog prioritization.

📌 11867 (Montreal)
🏢 Maarut
📍 Montreal