Who are we
CFI Financial Group is an award-winning trading provider, possessing more than 25 years of experience with multiple offices around the world including London, Larnaca, Beirut, Amman, Dubai, Port Louis, and others.
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Are you looking to pursue a career in finance Do you want to work with a dynamic and growing team in the exciting world of online trading and investing If you answered yes, then we have some amazing opportunities for you!
Job Description:
We are hiring a talented System Analyst Team Lead professional to join our team
Summary: A senior technical role responsible for the specification layer between product and engineering. Produces authoritative, implementation-grade technical artifacts and sets the standard for analysis quality across the team.
- Responsibilities:
- Produce primary technical artifacts (BPMN flows, UML diagrams: sequence, state, class, activity, component, deployment, data flow, ER models, system context diagrams).
- Own API contracts (OpenAPI/Swagger), event schemas, integration mappings, and data transformation specifications as direct engineering inputs.
- Define and enforce non-functional requirements (throughput, latency SLAs, concurrency, fault tolerance, failover, security boundaries).
- Maintain system documentation as a live asset (integration points, state machines, data contracts).
- Drive architectural clarity with Engineering Leads, surfacing ambiguity and resolving technical gaps pre-sprint.
- Lead design walkthroughs and specification reviews, acting as the technical authority to resolve conflicts and ensure engineering readiness.
- Own traceability of technical specifications and documentation.
- Define and enforce documentation standards, modeling conventions, and specification quality gates.
- Mentor and develop SA team members in technical modeling, systems thinking, and precision communication.
- Qualifications:
- 8+ years in a senior technical analyst or solution design role, with at least 3 years in a lead or principal capacity.
- Proven track record in high-concurrency, high-availability financial systems (brokerage, trading, or capital markets preferred).
- Deep understanding of distributed systems (event-driven design, transactional integrity, eventual consistency, fault isolation).
- Hands-on experience designing and documenting complex microservices architectures.
- Experience operating in regulated environments, with embedded compliance/audit traceability in design.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.
- Core Skills:
- Expert-level UML and BPMN for implementation quality diagrams (sequence, state machine, activity, class).
- API contract design (OpenAPI/Swagger, REST/async patterns, event schema design: Avro, Protobuf, JSON Schema).
- Understanding of code (preferably Python)
- Basic understanding of technologies like, Kubernetes, Kafka, Airflow, and relational/document data models.
- End-to-end systems thinking (domain modelling, edge case identification, failure mode analysis).
- Precise, unambiguous technical writing and modelling for engineering audiences.
- Established leadership credibility within cross-functional engineering teams.
Why join CFI
· We're a fast-growing, multinational company
· Competitive salaries and benefits
· Work and learn with industry professions
· Supportive and collaborative environment
· Unlimited opportunities for growth and development
