Join us as a Model validation senior specialist!

Are you ready to shape the future of capital markets? We are looking for a Model validation senior specialist to join the Model Risk LOD2 Team in Rome. This is a position offering an exciting opportunity to contribute to our mission.

Key accountabilities:

•    Independently validate the risk models designed by LoD1 Risk used to measure market, credit risk and liquidity risk
•    Timely analyse significant changes to a model through a standardized approach and issue recommendations/suggest alternatives
•    Development and analysis of sensitivity analysis, backtesting and stress testing
•    Input data validation, implement process improvements to streamline data analysis and reporting
•    Liaise with Regulators for MV topics
•    Interact effectively with model designer and model developers
•    Presenting findings and recommendations to management and stakeholders

Additional activities:
•    Draft technical specifications in the area of Credit and Counterparty risk (Basel III) following the launch of new products

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required

•    Master’s Degree in Quantitative Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent
•    Strong knowledge of financial markets and instruments, pricing, risk indicators
•    5-7 years of work experience in the banking or financial services industry, including regulators or consultancy firms
•    Proficiency in Microsoft Office package
•    Strong knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Matlab, Python,  SQL, Julia, C++,…) 
•    Strong analytical skills, critical thinking and problem solving attitude
•    Fluency in both spoken and written English
•    Strong attitude to teamwork and ability to work well under pressure
•    Excellent communication skills and outcome oriented
•    Knowledge of info providers (Bloomberg, Reuters) 

Media Communications Manager

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Press Officer with 3–5 years of experience in media relations to join our team in Milan, Italy. The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of the Italian financial media landscape, as well as international markets, with a proven track record in managing press activities in dynamic, fast-paced environments. Experience in communication agencies, handling a client portfolio across industries and financial institutions, is a strong advantage.

The successful candidate will be a dynamic professional who thrives under pressure, capable of managing multiple activities within a small local team while collaborating seamlessly with colleagues across a multinational structure. Adaptable, proactive, and confident, they will ensure consistent, high-quality outcomes across all communications initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, edit, and distribute press releases and articles in both Italian and English.
• Manage daily media monitoring and prepare press reviews.
• Handling enquiries from journalists and other media contacts.
• Organise and coordinate press conferences and media interviews.
• Support the drafting of thought leadership articles, speeches, and opinion pieces, briefing dossiers, write speeches for C-level  spokespersons.
• Liaise with the industry stakeholders (Regulator, Treasury, industry’s Associations) and coordinate communications strategies when necessary.
• Support the company’s social media pages, ensuring consistent and engaging content.
• Coordinate communication activities across different business lines and external stakeholders.
• Coordinating with other communications teams both internally and externally.
• Support media engagement during corporate events, including occasional travel within Italy and abroad.
• Ensure alignment and consistency in messaging, even in rapidly changing circumstances.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of proven experience in media relations, ideally within the financial sector.
• Strong knowledge of Italian financial media and journalists.
• Previous experience in communication agencies.
• Excellent written and spoken Italian and English; international experience is a plus.
• Solid understanding of capital markets and financial topics.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure.
• Team player with a flexible and adaptable mindset, comfortable working in a small local team, while also being fully integrated into a multinational team
• Availability to travel when required.
• Ability to work in a multicultural environment
• Fully independent in report writing and excellent drafting skills.
• Excellent ability to think analytically and innovatively.
• Capabilities to clearly, efficiently and effectively conceptualise ideas and approaches.
• Ability to negotiate at all levels in a multicultural and multilingual environment
• Capacity to focus on priorities, to organise work and to meet deadlines.

University degree in Communications, International Relations, Political Science, or other relevant field.

Key Responsibilities

-      Real-time and ex-post supervision mainly on the derivatives markets. As an example, the activities will include markets interventions, handling of input errors, management of member firms’ requests, supervision of after-hours trading;

-      contribution to the delivery of excellent internal/external customer service in the trading surveillance of the markets organized and managed by Borsa Italiana;

-      handling of ad hoc applications for real-time monitoring and ex-post surveillance;

-      preparation of regulatory reports;

-      analysis of trading activity to detect potential breaches;

Work is performed in an office environment, with extended hours.


Your profile
• Advanced knowledge of trading venues rule books, trading system parameters and technical mechanisms
• Detailed knowledge of applicable European regulation (MiFIR, MiFID, MAR) and respective application to trading venues
• Significant previous experience in internal audit or other similar corporate functions (e.g., risk / compliance)
• Strong analytical and organization skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Proven team leadership and management skills

Key accountabilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of hybrid and multicloud infrastructures (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Operate and optimize Apache Kafka clusters, including Mirror/MirrorMaker configurations for replication and resilience.
• Support database platforms such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and MySQL (replication, scaling, backups) – considered a plus.
• Implement observability and monitoring solutions using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, and Elastic.
• Drive DevOps/GitOps practices through automation with Ansible, CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD), and scripting (Bash, Python, Go, YAML).
• Manage security, authentication, and authorization (certificates, encryption keys, RBAC, LDAP/IDM integration).
• Oversee the infrastructure lifecycle: provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and decommissioning of platform components.
• Collaborate with internal IT and application teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Experience with IBM Power systems in containerized environments is considered a plus.
• Experience with virtualization and hyperconverged platforms, including OpenShift Virtualization, Nutanix, VMware, KVM, or similar, is a plus.

• Who You Are

• 3–6 years of experience in enterprise IT infrastructure and platform delivery.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift in production environments.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka (distributed architecture, replication, high availability).
• Familiarity with MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or other database platforms.
• Expertise in DevOps and automation practices.
• Understanding of hybrid cloud architectures and platform engineering.
• Experience with observability stacks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, Elastic).
• Experience with virtualization platforms (OpenShift Virtualization, Nutanix, VMware, KVM) is considered a plus.
• Strong engineering mindset focused on automation, lifecycle management, and delivery.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills within internal teams.

• Preferred Certifications

• Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator (RHCSA/RHCA)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
• Certifications in cloud platforms, databases, DevOps tools, or virtualization technologies are a plus

Design and implement new functionalities and oversees production of associated documentation to support delivery of all core trading applications used to run Euronext markets, international markets and MTFs. Bring design and development expertise in a variety of network technologies to lead system-level development of software programs

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with the team to implement new functionalities in C++ and Python
• Maintain the existing software and extend it
• Contribute to the design and development of trading systems
• Produce clear and accurate documentation related to the implemented code

Your Profile

• Good knowledge of C++ and Python
• Interest in artificial intelligence and machine learning
• Good Basic understanding of Linux operating systems
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Willingness to learn and use modern technologies such as: Microservices, Containers (e.g., Docker), Concurrent programming; Data Science, Machine Learning, Big Data, Streaming, Data Analytics
• Team spirit. 

Key accountabilities

• Analyse software requirements to plan appropriate tests
• Plan tests, defining scenarios, parameters and acceptance criteria for software validation
• Write and execute Tests
• Highlight any software defects
• Collaborate with developers to analyse problems and direct resolution
• Coordinate, maintain and evolve automatic test batteries and test automation methods, increasing requirements coverage
• Collaborate in analysing and addressing Incidents

Must-Have Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering
• At least 5 years of professional experience in Quality Assurance, with a strong focus on financial or trading applications
• Proven expertise of test methodologies, both for manual and automated testing
• Knowledge of test management tools such as X-Ray
• Ability to design and implement comprehensive test plans and complex test cases
• Proficiency with test automation tools (e.g., Tosca, Selenium, Cypress)
• Ability to collaborate with other teams (DEV,AM,TAM) to analyze/solve end-to-end problems
• In-depth understanding of trade lifecycle and financial markets
• Proactive mindset toward continuous improvement and knowledge sharing
• Excellent communication and relationship skills with teams and external stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, proactivity and autonomy within the team
• Excellent knowledge of the English language

Nice-to-Have Skills / Qualifications / Experience

• Understanding of FIX protocol and real-time financial messaging systems
• Scripting knowledge (e.g., Python, JavaScript) for enhanced automation
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD tools (e.g., Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Atlassian suite)
• Experience with performance testing tools for NFT (e.g., JMeter, Gatling)
• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience using cloud test farms offered by AWS
• Internationally recognized software quality/testing certification (e.g. ISTQB);
• SQL know-how for data validation
• Hands-on experience with trading platforms, Order Management Systems (OMS), or market data feeds

Design and implement new functionalities and oversees production of associated documentation to support delivery of all core trading applications used to run Euronext markets, international markets and MTFs. Bring design and development expertise in a variety of network technologies to lead system-level development of software programs.

Key accountabilities

• Implement in coding the most complex components in new functionalities
• Design performance critical subsystems
• Produce clear and accurate documentation relative to implemented code
• Work with other teams on overall trading system design
• Contribute to projects addressing challenging subjects linked to new functionalities
• Interface customers collaborating with them in the definition and implementation of algorithms

Your profile

• Proficient in designing and developing with C++ using templates
• Good programming expertise with Python
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Good knowledge of financial markets with special regards of Fixed Income
• Ability to work in a team

Borsa Italiana Spa, the company responsible for the organization and management of Italian financial markets and now part of the Euronext Group, provides an internship opportunity as Global Referential Intern. 
The Global Referential Team is responsible for the enrichment and management of referential into the trading platform for Cash Markets. This includes the management of daily updates to internal and customer facing systems as well as ad-hoc requested and planned changes. The intern will report to the Global Referential Head and supports the team for all the activities and office functions with regard to the Instruments Reference Data and Trading Platforms management including Equity Markets.

Key Responsibilities

The intern will be responsible to:

• Follow the KPIs
• Maintain working relationships with key internal contacts and external organizations with regard to the office activity
• Manage and minimize operational risks at all times
• Identify impact for the trading Platform with regard to Borsa disposals
• Liaise with Business team in order to the requests coming from Authorities
• Manage and updating relevant documentation and performing support for users during the BAU

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Master Degree in Economics or Finance
• Good knowledge of cash markets
• Fluency in English
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to maintain good relationship with internal and external stakeholders
• Capability to work to deadlines and under pressure
• Previous experience is considering as a plus

Role Summary

Euronext Clearing is Euronext's multi-asset clearing house. It is the CCP of choice for Euronext’s cash, financial and commodity derivatives markets across Europe, offering a harmonised clearing framework across Euronext venues.

Euronext Clearing provides an internship opportunity within the Credit Risk Department.

Key Responsibilities

The Credit Risk Team, part of the Risk Management Department, is in charge of the credit-risk controls executed in the admission process to the Clearing and Guarantee System managed by Euronext Clearing, monitoring of Clearing Members’ creditworthiness after the admission and handling of Due Diligences conducted on Clearing Members

The Applicant will assist the Credit Risk Department with the following activities:

• Active participation to the admissions process of new Participants to the Clearing System and membership profiles’ changes, aimed at evaluating the fulfilment of the CCP Rulebook and Credit Risk standards;
• Monitoring the maintenance of membership requirements according to timelines established by Euronext Clearing’s Rules and Regulations;
• Data Analysis activities for the provision of figures and data regarding CCP membership structure;
• Review of Due Diligence questionnaires, in line with international best practices;
• Interaction in a multi-cultural fast-paced environment in line with European exposure of the Euronext Group that covers different European Markets (Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Lisbon, Milan, Paris, Oslo).

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has:

• Master degree in Economics, Finance,  Statistics, Mathematics;
• Very Good knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Matlab, VB, Java, C++,…) and Microsoft Office Package;
• Knowledge of Data Analytics and Data Management;
• Problem-solving attitude, flexibility to cover shifts and out-of-the-box thinking;
• Team working attitude;
• Fluency in both spoken and written English.

Join Euronext – Shape capital markets for future generations

Euronext is the leading European capital market covering the entire capital markets value chain, from listing, trading, clearing, settlement and custody, to solutions for issuers and investors. We operate seven national stock exchanges, handling 25% of European lit equity trading. Our products include equities, FX, ETFs, bonds, derivatives, commodities and indices. Euronext also provides clearing and settlement services through Euronext Clearing and our network of Euronext Securities CSDs. In addition, Euronext runs MTS, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets, and Nord Pool, the European power market. The company has a diverse domestic and international client base.

Find out more about us at: Euronext.com

The Trading Surveillance Analyst activity will include real-time and off-line surveillance of Borsa Italiana Markets. In particular, the activity is related to real-time and off-line operational tasks