Senior Technical Business Analyst – FINTECH / LONDON

Overview

In this role you bridge product vision and delivery in a fast-moving technical environment for Adaptive’s front-office trading technology solutions. You will align engineering and business stakeholders, clarify requirements, and shape backlog while maintaining a product-first mindset. You help translate complex systems into actionable plans and ensure solutions meet performance and availability goals. This position offers growth in a collaborative, high-standard engineering culture.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Pension scheme
• Family medical and dental
• Life insurance and Long term disability cover
• Cycle scheme
• Gym subsidy

Responsibilities

• Shape requirements and align with stakeholders in ambiguous environments
• Translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items and testable outcomes
• Define acceptance criteria and QA validation needs using a Business-Driven Development approach
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture to plan and deliver features
• Act as a proxy for stakeholders to make decisions on scope and prioritisation
• Support delivery, implementation, and release processes to align with business objectives
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to drive clarity and decision-making

Key requirements

• Strong technical and domain-driven mindset
• Experience with distributed systems and state machine concepts
• Background in QA, software engineering, or technical business analysis
• Product-first mindset with Domain-Driven Design understanding
• Ability to define/document functional and non-functional requirements
• Understanding of performance, scalability, resilience, and availability
• Experience in Agile or Kanban environments across the full SDLC
• Comfort contributing to architecture and design discussions
• Ability to create process flows and documentation that align teams

• Bridge-builder between engineers and stakeholders
• Problem-solving in ambiguity
• Collaborative team player
• Domain-Driven Design
• Distributed systems concepts
• State machine replication

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