Business Analyst - London/Finance

Outside IR35 contract

About the project

Providing services within a medium-sized Adaptive team based in London and Barcelona on a project spanning a minimum of a year, to build a client-centric, multi-asset retail trading platform.

The engagement will include building a rich web Front End as designed by our UX team, new supporting components on the Back End such as a risk management system and an OMS, and integration with existing Back End components and infrastructure.

Our development accelerator Hydra, based around Aeron, will provide a resilient architecture for the whole edifice.

The engagement is a strategic project for Adaptive, so the project will be visible throughout the business.

Required skills:

• Significant experience working in the financial sector, with experience working on Real Time trading systems being especially sought after
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills

• In particular, the ability to explain even complex concepts clearly through written & visual mediums is expected, so as to create a trusted set of reference documents for the team and for the client

• Ability to work with distributed teams & keep everyone aligned on common goals without meeting face to face

• Ability to create & maintain a product backlog with multiple stakeholders

• Actively manage the client's expectations, make assumptions explicit and keep a log of important decisions throughout the engagement
• Actively involve oneself in coming up with a realistic roadmap that mitigates project risk
• Work with UX, QA and developers throughout the backlog building process, to avoid the roadblocks inherent in a sequential process

• Active involvement with design activities

• Take part in Event Storming/Workflow-Driven Design workshops (prior experience a plus)
• Capture and define the processes/workflows impacted by the solution we are delivering

• Active involvement with Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing activities

• Write falsifiable Acceptance Criteria
• Test the application manually & write bug reports to the same standard as a tester (if not with the same efficiency)
• Take an active role/the lead in defect triage

• Sufficient understanding of technical idioms

• In particular, an understanding of data structures & communication protocols is expected to allow discussion with technical experts and the capture of related requirements

• Keen understanding of the strengths and potential pitfalls that come with an Agile delivery philosophy, based on extensive personal experience

Nice to have:

Spread Betting/CFD Business Analyst - Retail trading platform

The small print:

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