Principal Business Analyst / Product Owner - Risk Platforms, New York

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the liaison between business stakeholders and technology teams to define and deliver solutions across risk platform initiatives. 
• Analyze and document current-state and target-state architectures for Market Risk, Credit Risk, and Counterparty Risk systems. 
• Elicit and define business, functional, and technical requirements for platform components. 
• Own and maintain the product backlog, writing clear and actionable user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria. 
• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, quants, and platform architects to ensure technical alignment with business objectives. 
• Support integration of risk platforms with upstream systems (e.g., trade capture, market data) and downstream consumers (e.g., reporting, regulatory). 
• Work with risk and compliance teams to ensure platform alignment with regulatory requirements  
• Participate in and coordinate UAT, system testing, and change management, ensuring end-to-end delivery readiness. 
• Develop and maintain clear documentation: process flows, data mappings, FAQs, support runbooks, and training materials. 
• Track progress across the SDLC and ensure timely delivery of high-quality deliverables. 

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Product Owner, or hybrid role within financial services, with a strong focus on risk technology. 
• Deep understanding of how risk data flows through enterprise platforms and how risk is calculated, monitored, and reported. 
• Strong experience gathering and documenting functional and technical requirements  
• Hands-on experience in Agile environments — managing sprints, grooming backlogs, and writing detailed user stories. 
• Solid understanding of risk data architecture, data models, and integration patterns. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to interface between business, technology, and data science teams. 
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across risk, technology, compliance, and project management functions. 
• Excellent analytical and documentation skills, with attention to detail and a structured approach to problem-solving. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with risk data lakes, cloud migration of risk systems, or real-time risk architecture. 
• Knowledge of data analysis tools (SQL, Excel, Power BI/Tableau) for validation and reconciliation. 
• Exposure to DevOps, CI/CD, or infrastructure-related aspects of risk platforms is a plus.