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, fintech and capital market service providers. With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.
We are now looking for Mid - Senior Business Analyst services to support a significant initiative for one of our Investment Banking clients.

THE INDIVIDUAL PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:

• Significant experience working in the financial sector on Front-office trading platforms
• Exposure to FX Trading platforms and deep knowledge of FX products (Spot / Fwd / NDF / Swap / Options / Orders / Algo / TCA)
• Front office stakeholder relationship management experience;
• Experience delivering in an Agile/Scrum environment;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
• Experience creating Epics and User Stories for engineering teams
• Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
• Experience working with UX designers;
• Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:

• Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialise, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase
• Convey that vision to the team and define clear milestones for alignment purposes, and so they can make holistic design decisions that will support the delivery
• Create & maintain a backlog of deliverable stories for the team
• Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
• Involve team members when their perspective can bring value, including times when it can support scope and priority decisions
• Follow up during the implementation and testing phases to ensure delivery satisfies the requirements
• Drive the backlog review and 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 your personal experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
• Understand various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate strategy with various talents in the team (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)
• Work with distributed teams

Please refer the Job description for details