Business Analyst (Trade Data & Data Governance)- Specialist- Energy & Commodities

Company Description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner supporting established organizations in achieving a future, digitally enabled state, both in how they operate and how they deliver value to their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset combined with modern, proven methods. Our approach integrates strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and creative problem-solving to deliver measurable business outcomes. Guided by our core values and our purpose, helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of what’s next—our global team of more than 20,000 professionals across 53 offices brings together expertise in technology, data science, consulting, and customer-centricity. By combining these capabilities, we enable our clients to accelerate their businesses through the design and delivery of products and services that their customers truly value.

Overview

We are seeking a Business Analyst to support the adoption and governance of a strategic Data Contract framework across trade data domains. This role will act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technology teams, ensuring consistent interpretation, representation, and management of trade lifecycle data. The successful candidate will drive alignment across multiple functions, document business requirements, define representative trade scenarios, and ensure data governance standards are applied consistently across products, instruments, and lifecycle events.

 

Responsibilities

 

• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to define and document complete trade lifecycles, including RFQ, Quote, Order, Trade/Fill, settlement, valuation, and reporting events.
• Develop and maintain approved representative trade scenarios and JSON examples aligned with the Data Contract framework.
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements, data definitions, ownership models, sourcing rules, defaulting logic, and validation requirements.
• Facilitate discussions across Trading, Risk, Finance, Operations, Compliance, Regulatory Reporting, and IT teams to achieve consensus and resolve conflicting requirements.
• Define and document business rules, supporting their translation into Common Expression Language (CEL) and validation frameworks.
• Collaborate with Data Architects and technical teams to map Data Contract representations to ETRM and Risk platform models.
• Maintain detailed documentation of decisions, approvals, rationale, and governance activities in Confluence.
• Track progress, deliverables, and trade-type readiness using JIRA and participate actively in Agile ceremonies.
• Support Data Contract adoption while ensuring adherence to governance standards and approved architectural principles.
• Obtain and manage stakeholder approvals, ensuring all required sign-offs are completed before delivery milestones are achieved.

Skills and Experience

 

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within commodity trading, energy trading, financial trading, or related data-intensive environments.
• Strong understanding of trade lifecycle processes and trade data management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder groups and facilitate consensus across business and technical teams.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and requirements-gathering skills with strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with JSON Schema, JSON document modeling, and data validation processes.
• Familiarity with business rule definition and data governance principles.
• Understanding of ETRM, risk management platforms, and system integration concepts.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD practices, code reviews, and repository-based delivery models.
• Working knowledge of testing frameworks (e.g., pytest) and troubleshooting validation issues.
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence, and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Comfortable working in technical development environments, including VS Code and remote Linux-based platforms.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly explain requirements, decisions, and supporting rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Additional Information

Besides an exciting job, here's what you can expect:

• A fast-paced tech environment
• Continuous growth & learning
• Open feedback culture
• Room for own initiative & ideas
• Transparency about results & strategy
• Recognition & reward for hard work
• Working with a flexible schedule 
• Medical subscription
• Meal tickets
• Extra vacation days - starting with 25 vacation days
• Many others perks