Regulatory Reporting Developer
Most RequestedBuilds and maintains regulatory returns and submissions, with the controls that prove completeness.
- Returns & submissions
- Controls
- Reconciliation
Financial Crime Technology
Risk and Compliance Technology Talent Where Auditability Is the Product
Hire specialists for regulatory reporting, surveillance, controls automation, model risk and data lineage. This is the work where the deadline comes from outside the organisation and where being right is worth less than being able to prove you were right.
For banks, payments firms, asset managers and consultancies. Contract, contract-to-hire and dedicated pods.
What a Compliance Technology Brief Looks Like
Live demand- Roles
- Regulatory reporting developer, surveillance specialist, controls automation engineer, model risk analyst, data lineage engineer
- Common estates
- Reporting and surveillance platforms, GRC tooling, data warehouses and lakes, in-house control frameworks
- Typical trigger
- A new or changed regulation, an audit or supervisory finding, a control automation push, a data governance programme
- Engagement
- Contract · Contract-to-hire · Dedicated team · Project pod
- Working models
- Onsite, hybrid, offshore, or blended with your existing squad
Send us a JD or a rough outline —start a requirement.
Coverage
- Regulatory reporting
- Surveillance
- GRC & controls
- Model risk
- Data lineage
- Audit readiness
Why This Role Is Hard to Fill
Two Skill Sets, and the Market Mostly Has One or the Other
Compliance technology sits between regulatory interpretation and data engineering. You find plenty of people who can read a rulebook and plenty who can build a pipeline. The ones who can do both — and produce something an examiner can follow — are a much smaller group, and they are usually already employed.
What separates them is a habit rather than a qualification: they build for scrutiny from the start. Lineage captured as they go, control evidence generated rather than assembled afterwards, reconciliation designed in. We screen for that directly — what did you have to prove, to whom, and what did they push back on?
All Financial Crime Technology Talent- Rulebook Knowledge Without Build ExperienceInterpreting a regulation is not the same as delivering the reporting that satisfies it. Briefs often assume one implies the other.
- Data Engineers Without Regulatory ContextStrong pipeline skills, no instinct for materiality, completeness or what an examiner will ask to see.
- Lineage RetrofittedReconstructing lineage after the fact costs several times what capturing it during build would have.
- Surveillance Assumed to Be GenericTrade surveillance and communications surveillance are different problems, and both differ from financial crime monitoring.
- Fixed External DeadlinesRegulatory dates do not move for hiring difficulty. Late briefs narrow the realistic pool sharply, and we will say so.
Roles We Staff
The Risk and Compliance Technology Roles We Are Asked For
Mix and match into a squad, or add one specialist to a team you already have.
Trade Surveillance Specialist
Market abuse and conduct scenarios, alert calibration and the evidence behind each disposition.
- Market abuse
- Scenario calibration
- Alert quality
Communications Surveillance Specialist
Voice and electronic communications capture, lexicon and model tuning, and review workflow.
- Comms capture
- Lexicons
- Review workflow
GRC Platform Consultant
Risk and control frameworks in tooling — taxonomies, assessments, issues and attestations.
- Risk taxonomy
- Controls library
- Workflow
Controls Automation Engineer
Turns manual control checks into automated, evidenced tests that run on a schedule.
- Automated testing
- Evidence capture
- Exception handling
Model Risk & Validation Analyst
Independent challenge of models and thresholds, with documentation that satisfies governance.
- Validation
- Challenge
- Model inventory
Data Governance & Lineage Engineer
Critical data elements, lineage capture, quality rules and the catalogue behind them.
- Lineage
- Data quality
- Cataloguing
Compliance Programme Lead
Owns delivery against an external deadline, including the audit and supervisory conversation.
- Delivery
- Traceability
- Audit readiness
What We Screen For
The Capability Grid Behind Every Shortlist
Requirements get mapped against this grid before we send anyone, so you can see depth by area instead of reading it out of a CV.
Regulatory ReportingReturns, submissions and the controls around them
- Return build & change
- Submission workflow
- Completeness controls
- Reconciliation to source
- Materiality & thresholds
- Restatement handling
- Attestation support
SurveillanceTrade and communications, treated separately
- Market abuse scenarios
- Conduct risk detection
- Alert calibration
- Voice & electronic comms capture
- Lexicon & model tuning
- Review workflow
- Disposition evidence
GRC & ControlsThe framework in tooling
- Risk taxonomy
- Controls library
- Risk & control assessments
- Issue & action tracking
- Attestations
- Control automation
- Exception management
Model RiskIndependent challenge
- Model inventory
- Validation methodology
- Threshold challenge
- Performance monitoring
- Documentation standards
- Governance committee support
Data Governance & LineageWhat makes any of it provable
- Critical data elements
- Lineage capture
- Data quality rules
- Cataloguing & glossary
- Ownership & stewardship
- Retention
- SQL & pipelines
Delivery & Audit ReadinessWorking to an external date
- Requirements traceability
- Evidence packs
- Audit & supervisory response
- Deadline-driven planning
- Change control
- Parallel running
Engagement
Compare all modelsFour Ways to Bring Compliance Technology People On
Project Team Staffing
A pod for a scoped regulatory programme — lead, developers, data, validation and BA.
DetailsContract Staffing
Named specialists for a defined period — a return build, a surveillance calibration, an audit response.
DetailsDedicated Technology Teams
A standing pod, because reporting and control obligations change every year.
DetailsContract-to-Hire
Work together through the programme, convert the people you want to keep afterwards.
DetailsHow We Get to a Shortlist
Screening, in the Order It Happens
Four steps, and you hear from us at each one.
- 1
Requirement Intake
Which obligation or discipline, which platforms and data sources, the deadline, and who owns the audit relationship.
- 2
Specialist Screening
A reviewer with compliance delivery background probes what the candidate had to prove, to whom, and what was challenged.
- 3
Shortlist With Notes
Profiles arrive with regulatory literacy and engineering depth rated separately, plus notice period and rate.
- 4
Interview and Onboard
We coordinate panels, handle paperwork and stay involved through the first weeks on your programme.
Profile Shapes
What a Compliance Technology Shortlist Contains
Representative profile structures for the three most common briefs.
Regulatory Reporting Developer
Multiple returns · audit-facing
- Built or rebuilt returns that were actually submitted
- Completeness and reconciliation controls designed in
- Has handled a restatement and explained it
- Comfortable with the audit conversation
Surveillance Specialist
Trade or communications · calibration-led
- Owned scenario calibration, not just alert review
- Reduced noise while evidencing retained coverage
- Worked with compliance officers on dispositions
- Understands the difference between the two surveillance disciplines
Data Governance & Lineage Engineer
Critical data elements · programme-scale
- Captured lineage during build rather than reconstructing it
- Data quality rules with real remediation behind them
- Can trace a reported figure back to source
- Has answered a supervisory data question
These are representative profile structures, not live availability. Current availability, notice periods and rates are shared against a specific requirement.
Before You Send a Brief
Questions We Get Asked
This covers a lot of ground. Is it really one practice?
It is one practice because the buyers and the constraint are shared — compliance owns the obligation, the deadline is external, and the output has to be defensible. The disciplines underneath are distinct, so on the intake call we narrow to the specific one before searching.
Do we need regulatory knowledge or engineering skill?
Both, in a ratio that depends on the role. Reporting and surveillance roles lean regulatory; lineage, controls automation and data quality roles lean engineering. We rate the two separately on the shortlist rather than averaging them into one judgement.
Our deadline is set by a regulator. How do you handle that?
By being straight about the market. On the intake call we will tell you what is realistically available in your window and which roles are the binding constraint, so the plan is built on real availability.
Do you cover trade and communications surveillance both?
Yes, but as separate briefs. They share a name and very little else, and candidates rarely have genuine depth in both. We will ask which one you mean rather than assuming.
Do you cover the financial crime disciplines too?
Yes — see AML, KYC, transaction monitoring and fraud talent.
What do you need from us to start?
A JD if you have one. If not: which obligation or discipline, which platforms and data sources, the deadline, whether the role is regulatory or engineering-led, seniority, engagement type and location expectations.
Request Talent
Tell Us What You Have to Prove, and by When
Send a JD or a two-line outline. We come back with the roles that fit, what the market looks like for them, and a shortlist against your requirement.
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