Business Analyst Trade Lifecycle
Quant Capital
Overview
As an Electronic Trading Business Analyst, you will lead stakeholder interactions and gather requirements to shape front-office trading solutions. You will map market models with exchanges, prioritise initiatives, and design messaging protocols to support low-latency electronic trading. Working across Risk, Price formation, and execution domains, you’ll validate requirements through development and QA, helping clients optimize trading platforms. This role combines consulting rigor with a deep understanding of FIX and latency-sensitive environments, in a London-based setting.
Pay / Benefits- equity option
- private ownership
- London-based role
- family-friendly culture
- VC-free entity
- opportunity to shape core trading platforms
- Lead key stakeholders and capture requirements through sessions and workshops
- Engage with Exchanges/Trading Venues to understand market models and message details
- Define and prioritise solutions for front-office electronic trading
- Design and propose messaging protocol formats for trading systems
- Validate requirements via development work and QA collaboration
- 4-8 years of experience in buy-side, sell-side, vendor, or ECN roles
- Experience across trading lifecycle components: risk management, price formation, tiering/distribution, execution, STP
- Relevant market experience with Interdealer broker/Dealer client or single-dealer platform
- FX asset classes: Spot/Forward/NDFs/Swaps/Options and/or related FI asset classes like cash bonds/derivatives/rates and credit/IRS
- stakeholder leadership
- clear communication
- collaborative mindset
- FIX protocol
- messaging protocol design
- front-office electronic trading
Reference: WJ-747_30162247