{"id":2071626,"url":"https://alion.io/job/rawventures-senior-business-analyst-ctrm-platform-systems-design","title":"Senior Business Analyst — CTRM Platform (Systems Design)","company":{"id":3840098,"name":"Rawventures","domain":"rawventures.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/rawventures","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"BambooHR","truth_index":null},"role":"Analytics","role_family":"Analytics","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Dubai, United Arab Emirates"],"countries":["AE"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":29000,"max_usd":66000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":3468},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"BPMN","optional":false},{"name":"Platform Engineering","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-21T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-21","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T20:57:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":38,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":38},"description":"Who we need\nWe are looking for someone who has learned system design discipline in a big-tech engineering environment and structured problem-solving, stakeholder handling and delivery rigour in a consulting environment - and who has since applied both to physical commodity trading.\nYou will sit inside the technology delivery team. Your job is to convert how business actually works into the design artefacts a development team builds from: process models, decision rules, data models, event definitions, state machines, and acceptance criteria. You are the person who makes sure the system that gets built reflects the real mechanics of the commodity trade lifecycle.\nWhat this role is not\nThis is notan economist or market analyst role. No market fundamentals, price forecasting, supply/demand balances or trading research.\nThis is nota strategy or corporate development role. No market entry assessments, business cases for investment, or operating model strategy decks.\nThis is nota pure project management or delivery coordination role, though you will own sequencing within your workstreams.\nIt is a hands-on systems design role, embedded in a business architecture team, producing artefacts that are consumed directly by product owners, architects and engineers.\nWhat you will do\nDesign the business architecture of the platform\nModel business processes across Trading, Finance, Logistics and Risk as structured, decomposable process definitions - not narrative descriptions\nDefine the business entity model and data dictionary: entities, attributes, relationships, identifiers, cardinality, lifecycle ownership\nSpecify state models for the core objects of the commodity trade lifecycle including valid transitions and the events that trigger them\nMaintain a business rules catalogue - conditions, decision tables, tolerances, thresholds and their owners - separated cleanly from process flow\nTurn design into buildable specification\nWrite functional specifications and acceptance criteria precise enough that an engineer can implement without reinterpreting the business intent\nTranslate operational workflows into system logic: validations, calculations, allocations, postings, and automated decisions\nSpecify integration contracts and data flows between the trading platform, finance systems and external services\nWork with architects and engineers through build and test, validating that delivered behaviour matches the design\nOwn the decision record\nRun design decisions to closure: frame the options, present the trade-offs and risks honestly, secure the decision, record it\nMaintain a decision log and a register of open items, assumptions and change requests\nPrioritise across releases, sequencing scope on business value and technical dependency\nWork with stakeholders\nElicit requirements directly from business stakeholders- including reconciling what they say they do with industry best-practices\nPresent designs and recommendations to senior stakeholders, including trading and operations leadership\nDesign the change-management dimension into the solution itself: role definitions, controls, adoption safeguards, and migration away from spreadsheet-based practice\nApplied AI\nDesign AI-enabled and automated steps inside commercial workflows - document extraction, validation, drafting, anomaly detection - with clear boundaries on where a human decision is mandatory\nWhat we expect\nExperience in a large technology organisation (product, platform or engineering environment) with exposure to formal system design practice\nExperience in a top-tier management consultancy or equivalent professional services environment\nExperience with physical commodity trading, energy markets or CTRM systems\nFluent in both English and Russian (mandatory)\nDeep working knowledge of the physical deal lifecycle\nUnderstanding of trade finance and accounting interfaces: prepayments, invoicing, accruals, letters of credit, treasury and statutory reporting boundaries\nUnderstanding of oil logistics of commodity trading\nDemonstrable ability to produce structured design artefacts - process models (BPMN or equivalent), entity-relationship and data models, state diagrams, decision tables, interface specifications\nComfort working directly in an engineering delivery cadence: backlog, refinement, acceptance, release\nPrecision with terminology and versioned documentation\nStrong commercial and financial analysis capability applied to system design questions\nLocation: Dubai, alternatively remote with regular travel to Dubai to work alongside the client's trading and operations team.\nNice to have\nCrude, refined products or LNG flows specifically\nRisk management functions: exposure, credit limits, position management, VaR\nPricing and reference data: Platts, Argus, ICE, forward curves, netbacks\nEvent-driven or microservices architecture experience; 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