Senior Data Analyst - Trading Analytics - Crypto Exchange

Role overview

We are working with a major international digital assets exchange to hire a Senior Data Analyst for its Trading Analytics function. This position sits at the crossroads of conventional financial markets and crypto assets, supporting a complex derivatives business that includes options and multi-asset trading products. The role will shape product direction, trading performance improvements, customer engagement strategies, and commercial decisions through high-impact analytics.

What you'll do

• Study user activity throughout the entire trading journey, including onboarding, activation, product adoption, engagement, retention, and churn patterns.
• Create and refine dashboards, reporting tools, and automated analytics to track trading results, customer activity, business metrics, and overall platform expansion.
• Carry out detailed analysis of options trading, covering contract usage, implied volatility movement, open interest, premium flow, Greeks exposure, and client trading approaches.
• Provide insights on traditional market products such as equities, indices, commodities, precious metals, and FX perpetuals, with a focus on what drives performance and how users behave across asset classes.
• Spot valuable customer segments, estimate lifetime value and trading engagement, and recommend actions that improve product design, pricing, liquidity, and commercial outcomes.
• Check data quality and accuracy across multiple trading and user datasets so that core business metrics remain reliable and consistent.
• Assist product, commercial, risk, and leadership stakeholders with ad hoc analysis, experiment evaluation, product launch review, and strategic projects.
• Build and maintain scalable data models, ETL workflows, and analytical datasets that support reporting and deeper analysis.
• Work closely with Product, Trading, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Engineering to align on metric definitions and reporting standards.
• Convert complex trading and behavioural data into practical, business-ready recommendations that support user acquisition, trading activity, and revenue growth.

What we're looking for

• Fluency in both Mandarin and English, with strong written and spoken communication ability.
• At least 5 years of experience in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Trading Analytics, or a similar analytical role.
• Solid understanding of options, derivatives, or other traditional financial trading products.
• Advanced SQL capability, plus hands-on use of Python or R for analysis and modelling.
• Experience creating dashboards and visualisations in Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or comparable BI tools.
• Strong grasp of options concepts such as Greeks, implied volatility, open interest, expiry behaviour, and derivatives pricing.
• Familiarity with major asset classes including equities, equity indices, commodities, metals, and foreign exchange.
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to turn large, complex datasets into clear commercial insight.
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong focus on data integrity.
• Comfort working independently as part of a globally distributed team across several time zones.

Preferred experience

• Prior experience in a cryptocurrency exchange, digital asset business, investment bank, brokerage, or proprietary trading setup.
• Exposure to crypto options and digital asset derivatives.
• Experience analysing trading flow, market microstructure, execution quality, or liquidity-related metrics.
• Background in quantitative modelling, forecasting, or statistical methods applied to financial markets.
• Understanding of institutional trading processes, options market making, hedging approaches, or liquidity management.

Additional information

This is an onsite role based in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates. The position is full time. No salary figure, number of openings, start date, or application deadline were provided in the source.