Senior Technical Business Analyst (Contractors Outside IR35) - FINTECH / LONDON

<p><strong>WE ARE:</strong></p> <p>At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology.</p> <p>Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.</p> <p>Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers.</p> <p>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.<br><br></p> <p>We are now looking for Technical&nbsp; Business Analyst services on an exciting project!&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>THE INDIVIDUAL/S PROVIDING THE SERVICES WILL HAVE THE FOLLOWING EXPERIENCE:</strong></h3> <ul> <li>The<strong> </strong>ability to <strong>see the big picture</strong> while <strong>managing the finer details </strong>of delivery.</li> <li>The ability to <strong>communicate and facilitate</strong> effectively across both technical and business stakeholder groups.</li> <li>The ability to <strong>bring structure and clarity to ambiguous</strong> or <strong>complex delivery situations</strong>.</li> <li>The ability to <strong>understand system behaviour </strong>and <strong>interactions beyond purely functional outcomes</strong>.</li> <li>A strong <strong>technical and domain-driven mindset,</strong> with the ability to work closely with engineering teams</li> <li>Hands-on experience with high-performance messaging or sequencing platforms such as <strong>Aeron, Kafka, Hydra, or equivalent</strong> — including an understanding of message ordering, state machine replication, and fault-tolerant distributed systems</li> <li>Demonstrable exposure to low-latency or high-throughput messaging infrastructure in a financial or similarly demanding technical environment</li> <li>Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly <strong>technical product environment</strong></li> <li>A <strong>product-first mindset, </strong>combining Domain-Driven Design principles with a deep understanding of systems and user impact</li> <li>The ability to <strong>define and document</strong> functional and non-functional requirements clearly and effectively</li> <li>An understanding of performance, scalability, resilience, and availability in modern platforms</li> <li>Experience wo