Senior Technical Analyst

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors. The Compliance Technology team are responsible for designing and implementing scalable solutions that enable QRT to meet its regulatory obligations and maintain robust control frameworks. This role collaborates with compliance, technology, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable and effective solutions that support regulatory requirements, operational controls, and business goals. The successful candidate will combine strong technical business analysis skills with process design expertise. Responsibilities include gathering and analysing requirements, working closely with developers to translate business needs into technical solutions, and ensuring delivery of these solutions into production. The role also includes aspects of Scrum Master responsibilities, ensuring agile practices are followed and delivery is well-coordinated. Your Future Role within QRT * Work with Trade Surveillance and Electronic Communications Surveillance teams to gather and document business and regulatory requirements. * Translate surveillance requirements into clear functional specifications, including alert logic, data inputs, workflows, and control expectations. * Support the analysis and improvement of surveillance processes, helping identify control gaps and efficiency opportunities. * Partner with engineering teams to ensure requirements are correctly implemented and tested. * Use structured query language and Python to analyse and validate trade, order, and communications data. * Support alert tuning, investigations, and root cause analysis of data or control issues. * Provide day-to-day support to surveillance teams on data queries and system behaviour. * Contribute to agile delivery activities, including backlog refinement and sprint planning. Your Present Skillset * Experience in technical business analysis within financial services. * Exposure to trading, market surveillance, or compliance environments. * Good structured query language skills and working knowledge of Python. * Understanding of market abuse regulations such as the Market Abuse Regulation and the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive. * Understanding of Financial Information exchange messaging and how electronic orders and executions flow between trading systems. * Familiarity with order management systems and execution management systems, and how order and trade data feeds downstream surveillance and compliance controls. * Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. * Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.  QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

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 a Technical Business Analyst to join our team — someone who can bridge the gap between high-level product vision and detailed delivery execution in a complex, fast-moving technical environment. If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role! 🎉 YOU ARE: * A strategic thinker who can zoom out to understand the big picture and zoom in to nail the details. * A natural bridge-builder — equally comfortable in a room full of engineers and a room full of stakeholders. * A problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and brings calm, clarity, and structure to complex situations. * A curious mind who genuinely enjoys understanding how systems work, not just what they need to do. * A collaborative team player who believes the best solutions come from diverse perspectives.   YOU HAVE: * 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 * Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly technical product 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. * Confidence 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. YOU WILL: DRIVE CLARITY IN COMPLEX ENVIRONMENTS: * Operate confidently in ambiguous situations, shaping requirements and driving alignment with minimal direction. * Adapt 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 * Ask the right questions 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. * Help improve operational processes and workflows — both internally and externally — bringing a calm, pragmatic and collaborative approach.   WHY US:  To be immersed in high-standard engineering culture. Our fantastic team takes pride in crafting complex technical solutions but also loves sharing their knowledge and helping you grow professionally (we have extraordinary minds at Adaptive 😁) You can learn from anyone here, which is the beauty of it. To take part in the growth and development of a great company. Our teams feel free to speak up, make suggestions and raise concerns. Collaborative team environment: we all work together, respect each other, and pitch in. Great consideration for work/life balance (highly-flexible, hybrid working model, well-being benefits…). The balance between professional and personal life is massively important to us. We work hard to provide a positive, collaborative and inclusive culture and to positively impact our staff and local communities through different well-being, diversity and inclusion. programmes. WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK OF US 🗣 You can check our Glassdoor page 🎉 BENEFITS  (What we offer in return // what you’ll get ) We create benefits with YOU in mind.💜  * Flexible hybrid working model * Medical from the 1st of month following your start date (i.e. if you join on the 24th of July, it starts on the 1st of August). We have 6 Aetna plans to choose from as provided by our PEO, Justworks. We make a flat monthly contribution to your healthcare costs. * Dental and vision from the 1st of the month following your start date - we have 3 dental and 2 vision plans to choose from.  We make fixed contributions to each. * 23 days of vacation per calendar year plus 11 public holidays * Group disability insurance: short-term and long-term (60% and taxable) * 401K safe harbor plan where we match contributions up to 5% of base pay on a paycheck-to-paycheck basis (you can opt-in after 90 days of service) * Gym subsidy of up to $50 per month (and we pay the taxes on that so it's a real $50) post probation. * Life insurance at 2 x salary * Commuter benefits * Health Savings Account and Flexible Spending Account Actual starting base pay will be determined on skills, experience, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. The Salary range for this position is $160,000 - $200,000 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 you will have three stage interviews: 1- A chat with one of our great recruiters. 2- A zoom chat with one of BA colleagues where they will ask you detailed questions about your experience 3- A Face to Face interview (via Zoom). But don’t worry; everything will be explained to you step by step by your recruiter.  Here is a little tip for you during those stages:  Collaboration is massively important to us, so don't hesitate to share your thoughts, ask questions, ask for help if needed, etc 😊  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. We want everyone to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves to work without any fear of judgment or negativity.  All we ask is that our colleagues are respectful, collaborative, passionate about what they do, and have the skills needed to be successful in their roles Adaptive Financial Consulting Inc. makes use of E-Verify to validate someone's right to work in the US. We will provide the Social Security Administration, and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security, with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Please note that we do not use this information to pre-screen job applicants. E-Verify Adaptive uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of a new hire after they they have completed their I9. E-Verify is not used to pre-screen an applicant for employment, nor is it used to discriminate against applicants on any basis.