About the role

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 Technical  Business Analyst services on an exciting project!    <h3>THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:</h3> <ul> <li>The ability to see the big picture while managing the finer details of delivery.</li> <li>The ability to communicate and facilitate effectively across both technical and business stakeholder groups.</li> <li>The ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex delivery situations.</li> <li>The ability to understand system behaviour and interactions beyond purely functional outcomes.</li> <li>A strong technical and domain-driven mindset, with the ability to work closely with engineering teams</li> <li>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</li> <li>Demonstrable exposure to low-latency or high-throughput messaging infrastructure in a financial or similarly demanding technical environment</li> <li>Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly technical product environment</li> <li>A product-first mindset, combining Domain-Driven Design principles with a deep understanding of systems and user impact</li> <li>The ability to define and document functional and non-functional requirements clearly and effectively</li> <li>An understanding of performance, scalability, resilience, and availability in modern platforms</li> <li>Experience working in Agile or Kanban environments across the full software development lifecycle</li> <li>Demonstrable experience contributing to architecture and design discussions, simplifying complex challenges into deliverable solutions</li> <li>The ability to create process flows, sequencing diagrams, and documentation that align technical and operational teams </li> </ul> <h3>DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:</h3> <h3>DRIVE CLARITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS:</h3> <ul> <li>Shaping requirements and driving alignment in ambiguous situations, with minimal direction</li> <li>Adapting to different delivery models across products, including engineering-led and BA-led ways of working</li> <li>Define and maintain functional and non-functional requirements — including operational scenarios, acceptance criteria, and QA validation needs across distributed workflows</li> <li>Ensuring questions are raised early, so that solutions are well understood, well defined, and ready to be delivered </li> </ul> <h3>SHAPE THE BACKLOG AND DELIVERY:</h3> <ul> <li>Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture teams to translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items, deliverable stories, and testable outcomes</li> <li>Help stakeholders make their vision for the product materialise, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase</li> <li>Be the stakeholders proxy in the team — able to make quick, firm decisions on scope, requirements and prioritisation/triage</li> <li>Drive backlog review and estimation processes, and take part in planning activities</li> <li>Define acceptance criteria and tests up front as part of a Business-Driven Development approach</li> <li>Follow up during implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies requirements</li> </ul> <h3>COLLABORATE ACROSS THE TEAM:</h3> <ul> <li>Work closely with QA to assess failure scenarios and help distinguish bugs, enhancements, and new feature requirements</li> <li>Facilitate discussions across technical and business stakeholders to drive clarity, alignment, and sound decision-making</li> <li>Support delivery, implementation, and release processes, ensuring solutions align with business objectives, customer use cases, and non-functional expectations</li> <li>Help improve operational processes and workflows — both internally and externally — bringing a calm, pragmatic and collaborative approach</li> </ul>   WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣 You can check our <a href="https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Adaptive-Financial-Consulting-Reviews-E833383.htm">Glassdoor</a> page 🎉   THE 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). But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.  Here is a little tip for you during those stages:  Collaboration is massively important to us, so don t hesitate to share your thoughts, ask