Senior Business Analyst – London – Fintech
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WE ARE:
At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology. Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front‑office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long‑term competitive advantage.
WE ARE:
Our clients include the world’s leading investment banks, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.
WE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR:
Senior Business Analysts to work on an exciting and challenging project to substantially overhaul an existing exchange, using a mix of Adaptive’s proprietary products and some bespoke code.
Responsibilities
* Rapidly bootstrap a working backlog to help stakeholders materialize their vision, especially in the early phases of each delivery cycle.
* Convey the project vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, enabling holistic design decisions that support delivery.
* Maintain the backlog of deliverable stories for the team.
* Act as the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, making quick, firm decisions on scope, requirements and prioritization/triage when appropriate.
* Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, supporting scope and priority decisions, especially to quantify bang for buck.
* Follow up during implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements.
* Drive the backlog review, estimation process and take part in planning activities.
* Capture non‑functional requirements and keep supportability in mind.
* Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business‑Driven Development approach.
* Use personal Agile delivery experience to take advantage of strengths and mitigate potential risks.
* Measure project progress where required, using technical links to Jira or Azure as needed.
* Work closely and complementarily with the Delivery Lead on the project.
* Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (real‑time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns).
* Work with distributed teams.
Qualifications
* A strategic thinker with great communication skills.
* A strong relationship builder with your team and clients.
* A troubleshooter and a team player.
* Curious with respect to new business processes and technical solutions.
* Experienced with Agile processes, especially as it relates to backlog building and maintenance.
* Significant experience working in the financial sector, with experience on Real Time trading systems being especially valuable.
* Specific experience in margin trading would be highly preferential.
* Front‑office stakeholder relationship management experience.
* Experience delivering in an agile environment.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing.
* Some experience working with UX designers.
* Some knowledge of Margin and Leveraged products in the financial markets.
Process
Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us. We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly. So here you will have three stage interviews:
1. A chat with one of our great recruiters.
2. A Zoom chat with one of our BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience.
3. A face‑to‑face interview (via Zoom).
Collaboration is massively important to us, so don’t hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles.
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