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!

THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE

Experience in QA, Software Engineering (ideally a senior Java developer), Technical Business Analysis, or another highly technical product environment
The ability to see the big picture while managing the finer details of delivery.
The ability to communicate and facilitate effectively across both technical and business stakeholder groups.
The ability to bring structure and clarity to ambiguous or complex delivery situations.
The ability to understand system behaviour and interactions beyond purely functional outcomes.
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
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
Demonstrable experience 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

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES

DRIVE CLARITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS

Shaping requirements and driving alignment in ambiguous situations, with minimal direction
Adapting 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
Ensuring questions are raised 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