Full job description 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

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