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Adaptive

Business Analyst - LONDON - contract outside IR35 - up to 750/day depending on experience

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Freelance

16-01-2026

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Skills

Communication DevOps Prioritization Programming Agile

Job Specifications

WE ARE:

Adaptive is 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, exchanges, investment managers, fintech and capital market service providers. We have a global reach with offices in London, New York, Barcelona, Manila and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.

We are now looking for a Business Analyst services for an exciting project to design, build, and deploy a greenfield market-making platform!

DESCRIPTION OF THE SERVICES:

Help stakeholders in making their vision for the product materialize, especially in the early stages of each delivery phase - ie requirements solicitation and discovery
Convey that vision to the Adaptive 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 Adaptive team
Be the stakeholders’ proxy in the team, able to make quick, firm decisions when it comes to scope, requirements and prioritization/triage
Involve Adaptive 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 experience with Agile delivery to take advantage of its strengths and mitigate its potential risks
Work with distributed teams

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

Front office stakeholder relationship management;
Delivering in an agile environment,
Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
Some experience with QA/Business Acceptance Testing;
Some experience working with UX designers;
Some knowledge of client onboarding, client tiering, KYC
Understanding various software concepts to discuss problems and orchestrate project strategy (including but not limited to: real-time programming, high availability, TDD, BDD, UX design, DevOps concerns…)

EXCHANGE KNOWLEDGE

Experience with exchange business models and operations
Order types and time in force combinations and their resultant behaviours
Strategy orders
Matching strategies
Matching exclusions
Matching engine risk and settlement models
Auctions and other market states
Market data & market data distribution
Order entry APIs
Institutional collateral management and settlement
Risk controls and circuit breakers
Regulatory reporting
Market surveillance and compliance

RETAIL BROKERAGE KNOWLEDGE

Experience with retail broker business models and operations
Retail collateralisation models
Order management
Position tracking
Retail risk controls
Retail regulatory reporting
Order Execution (A book, B book, internalisation, straight through processing)
Spot, CFDs, Futures, Perpetual Futures (Crypto)
Commission Models

What Do People Think Of Us

You can check our Glassdoor page

THE PROCESS

Long interview processes are stressful and boring, and that is not us

We want to make sure that everything runs smoothly.

So here there will be a three stage interview:

1- A chat with one of our recruiters.

2- A zoom chat with an Adaptive BA where they will ask detailed questions to assess experience/expertise

3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom).

But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by the Adaptive recruiter.

DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION:

Diversity and inclusion are key to a great workplace, and Adaptive is better when it’s more representative of the world around us. Our colleagues feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity. All we ask is that anyone providing services here is respectful and collaborative, and has the required skills.

Background check: the engagement is subject to an acceptable background check that will be run by Adaptive on any Individual/s providing the services.

About the Company

Welcome to Adaptive. We’re the leading experts in custom trading technology solutions, crafting truly bespoke front-office platforms. Through a unique combination of deep capital markets expertise and world-leading technology, we create competitive advantage for businesses now, and for the future. : - Trading in the cloud: we help move your trading technology to the cloud - Bespoke trading technology: we deliver custom capital markets solutions - Architecture modernization: we ensure you leave legacy behind to unlock tradi... Know more