Business Analyst (Contractor) - Electronic Trading Infrastructure

Business Analyst – Electronic Trading Infrastructure 

Role Overview 

The Business Analyst – Electronic Trading Infrastructure supports the delivery of infrastructure for QRT's global electronic trading platforms across equities, futures, options, fixed income and FX. 

Working within the Infrastructure team, the role partners with Trading, COO, Engineering and Operations to capture business requirements, translate them into technical deliverables and coordinate the successful delivery of low-latency infrastructure, exchange connectivity and market data platforms. 

Key Responsibilities 

• Capture and document infrastructure requirements from Trading and COO teams.  

• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, user stories and delivery plans.  

• Coordinate delivery across Linux, Network Engineering, Market Data, FPGA, DCO and Operations teams.  

• Support exchange onboarding, market data, broker connectivity and colocation deployments.  

• Coordinate infrastructure changes through design, implementation, testing and production rollout.  

• Manage project risks, dependencies, milestones and stakeholder communications.  

• Maintain project documentation, Jira and Confluence.  

Skills & Experience 

• Experience as a Business Analyst within financial services or electronic trading.  

• Strong understanding of infrastructure delivery and stakeholder management.  

• Experience working with technical engineering teams.  

• Knowledge of exchange connectivity, market data or low-latency trading environments.  

• Excellent analytical, documentation and communication skills.  

• Experience with Jira, Confluence and Visio.  

Desirable 

• Knowledge of exchange colocation and electronic trading infrastructure.  

• Familiarity with FIX, multicast networking and market data platforms.  

• Understanding of production change, testing and exchange certification.  

• Experience working across multiple asset classes including equities, futures, options, fixed income and FX.