Senior Data Analyst, RegTech, Compliance, and Trading

About The Role

The RegTech team at DriveWealth develops data products essential for our compliance department to meet all regulatory obligations. We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to focus on the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of highly curated data marts, feeds, and dashboards for both internal compliance and external regulatory reporting.

The ideal candidate must possess a deep understanding of the trade lifecycle and have a proven track record of collaboration with data engineers, product managers, and regulatory stakeholders. The role entails ownership of data quality, including defining quality standards, developing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies, and establishing robust data governance frameworks to ensure accuracy, integrity, and compliance across all regulatory data assets.

What You’ll Do

• Support Ad-Hoc Inquiries and Regulatory Exams: Respond quickly and accurately to ad-hoc data requests and regulatory examination inquiries from Compliance and Legal teams, providing data and analysis as needed.
• Own the Regulatory and Supervisory Data Layer: Architect, build, and maintain data marts and Sigma reports used for critical regulatory functions (e.g., CAT, EBS, trade monitoring, AML) and internal compliance supervisory monitoring, ensuring consistent, accurate outputs delivered quickly through efficient code with robust testing and verification.
• Drive Optimization and Efficiency: Continuously evaluate and optimize data models, SQL queries, and Sigma reports for performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability, contributing to a best-in-class RegTech data infrastructure
• Proactively Detect and Report Upstream Data Anomalies: Establish monitoring and alerting to proactively detect, analyze, and escalate upstream data anomalies and pipeline failures, providing daily exception reports to upstream data producers.
• Own the Business Logic Layer: Define, implement, and rigorously document the core business logic and transformations within the data marts to ensure accurate calculation and aggregation for all regulatory and supervisory metrics
• Monitor Inbound Regulatory Files and Feeds: Establish and maintain robust monitoring for all critical inbound regulatory data files and real-time feeds, ensuring timely arrival, data quality, and correct ingestion into the data ecosystem.
• Translate Regulation to Data: Work directly with business partners and Compliance to translate new regulatory rules, changes, and reporting obligations into precise analytics engineering requirements and data flows.
• Lead Comprehensive Data Testing: Team with QA to architect and implement a rigorous, automated testing framework, including building and maintaining dbt data tests to validate transformation logic and data integrity, developing unit tests for all critical business logic, and establishing automated regression testing to ensure zero defect releases for all regulatory data products.

What You’ll Need

• Deep domain knowledge in FinTech/Capital Markets, including a strong understanding of the trade/order lifecycle (Orders, Executions, Allocations) and US regulatory reporting requirements.
• Proven deep experience implementing, maintaining, and monitoring data for core regulatory processes (e.g., CAT, EBS, trade monitoring, AML).
• Experience working within a larger data team, balancing ideating on solutions, creating output, writing verification tests, and reviewing others' work.
• Fluent in SQL.
• Experience with building business intelligence reports (Sigma Computing is preferred)

Bonus points for

• Python (Jupyter Notebooks)
• DBT
• NoSQL and semi-structured data
• Familiarity with Databricks, AWS, Airflow, GitHub, and Agile development
• Experience documenting and maintaining procedures for regulatory purposes.

Compensation Compensation package offerings are based on candidate experience and technical qualifications, as it relates to the role. These are identified and determined throughout your interviewing experience.

Please note: this role is expected to come into our office on a cadence set by the Hiring Manager/Team.

New York, NY (Hybrid) Pay Range

$150,000 - $180,000 USD

Working at DriveWealth

We do our best work when we’re in the same room. To maintain the speed our partners expect, our New York and Chicago teams work in-office 4 days a week. We’ve found that being physically side-by-side is the only way to solve complex problems in real-time and stay truly accountable to the products we ship. When you’re here, you’re working directly with the people making the decisions. To support that work, we provide competitive compensation, equity, and a 401(k) match. We also offer full insurance coverage, a wellness reimbursement, a company-provided phone, and a personal development allowance. Finally, we value the time you spend away from the office with generous PTO, observed holidays, and extended leave.

How We Think About AI

We leverage AI to work smarter and move faster. We seek AI curious talent who are proactive about using emerging tools to increase signal quality, reduce friction and improve outcomes to deliver product faster, provide better service to our partners, and to streamline processes. Your ability to leverage our internal tools and technology to drive results is as important to us as your core domain expertise.