Senior IT Business Analyst - Trading Technology / Data Analytics (Contract)

A leading markets firm are undertaking a major modernisation and migration initiative within their key business functions and have an opportunity for a senior technical business analyst to play a key role in large scale, business-critical application improvements.

You will have a background working in the front office of a major investment bank, hedge fund, or related vendor or market infrastructure firm, with significant exposure to systems consuming financial data from major data vendors, as well as trading and pricing activity across traded asset classes. The role will entail understanding application architecture technology stacks, hosting models, defining relevant business and functional requirements, analysing application dependencies and migration paths, and working with stakeholders to dive relevant migration and modernisation solutions.

You should apply for this role if you are/have:

• 10+ years front office IT experience within investment banking, hedge funds, or related vendor/exchange environment
• 5+ years technical business analysis experience with demonstrable experience on application and infrastructure projects
• Strong understanding of systems analysis for trading, pricing, analytics, and/or market data; financial product understanding
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management experience including daily interaction with the front office
• Degree educated or higher from a leading academic institution in a relevant technical subject

This is a £600-650/day PAYE role inside IR35 role, based London; initially for six months.