Senior Technical Business Analyst - FINTECH / LONDON - Adaptive Financial Consulting

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.

Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers.

With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Manila, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join our team - someone who can bridge the gap between high-level product vision and detailed delivery execution in a complex, fast-moving technical environment.

If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role!

YOU ARE:

• A strategic thinker who can zoom out to understand the big picture and zoom in to nail the details.
• A natural bridge-builder - equally comfortable in a room full of engineers and a room full of stakeholders.
• A problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and brings calm, clarity, and structure to complex situations.
• A curious mind who genuinely enjoys understanding how systems work, not just what they need to do.
• A collaborative team player who believes the best solutions come from diverse perspectives.

YOU HAVE:

• A background as a software engineer (ideally a senior Java developer) who has moved, or wants to move, into a technical business analysis role.
• A strong technical and domain-driven mindset, with the ability to work closely with engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience with high-performance messaging or sequencing platforms such as Aeron, Kafka, Hydra, or equivalent - including an understanding of message ordering, state machine replication, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Demonstrable exposure to low-latency or high-throughput messaging infrastructure in a financial or similarly demanding technical environment
• Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly technical product environment.
• A product-first mindset, combining Domain-Driven Design principles with a deep understanding of systems and user impact.
• The ability to define and document functional and non-functional requirements clearly and effectively.
• An understanding of performance, scalability, resilience, and availability in modern platforms.
• Experience working in Agile or Kanban environments across the full software development lifecycle.
• Confidence contributing to architecture and design discussions, simplifying complex challenges into deliverable solutions.
• The ability to create process flows, sequencing diagrams, and documentation that align technical and operational teams.

YOU WILL:

DRIVE CLARITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS:

• Operate confidently in ambiguous situations, shaping requirements and driving alignment with minimal direction.
• Adapt to different delivery models across products, including engineering-led and BA-led ways of working.
• Define and maintain functional and non-functional requirements - including operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and QA validation needs across distributed workflows
• Ask the right questions early, so that solutions are well understood, well defined, and ready to be delivered.

SHAPE THE BACKLOG AND DELIVERY:

• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture teams to translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items, deliverable stories, and testable outcomes.
• Help stakeholders make their vision for the product materialise, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase.
• Be the stakeholders' proxy in the team - able to make quick, firm decisions on scope, requirements and prioritisation/triage.
• Drive backlog review and estimation processes, and take part in planning activities.
• Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach.
• Follow up during implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies requirements.

COLLABORATE ACROSS THE TEAM:

• Work closely with QA to assess failure scenarios and help distinguish bugs, enhancements, and new feature requirements.
• Facilitate discussions across technical and business stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and sound decision-making.
• Support delivery, implementation, and release processes, ensuring solutions align with business objectives, customer use cases, and non-functional expectations.
• Help improve operational processes and workflows - both internally and externally - bringing a calm, pragmatic and collaborative approach.

WHY US:

• To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive ) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it.
• To take part in the growth and development of a great company.
• Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns.
• Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in.
• Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits...). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us.
• We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion. programmes.

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US

You can check our Glassdoor page

BENEFITS (What we offer in return // what you'll get )

We create benefits with YOU in mind.

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Family medical and dental
• Life insurance and Long term disability cover
• Cycle scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Gym subsidy
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders

THE PROCESS