Senior Business Analyst - Fixed Income Technology

T. Rowe Price Hong Kong; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

T Rowe Price is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to partner with business and engineering teams to build cloud-first portfolio management capabilities. You will own product direction across Fixed Income, working with Portfolio Managers, Quants and analysts globally.

The role emphasizes collaboration with engineering, data analysis, and front-office functions, with a hybrid work arrangement and a focus on delivering scalable analytics and automation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience in a Business Analyst role.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with stakeholders across fixed income assets.
• Collaborate with Engineering to develop product roadmap and backlog for Fixed Income portfolio management.
• Develop and prioritize product backlog and communicate with stakeholders.
• Work with agile teams to translate business requirements into automation and analytics.
• Identify data quality issues and propose solutions after analysis.

Skills

Data analysis

SQL

Excel

Jupyter notebooks

Jira & Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

KM3 Overview

The T Rowe Price Fixed Income Investments technology team is looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst to partner with our business and engineering teams to build out the next generation of cloud‑first portfolio management capabilities. This role is designed to act as a partner to engineering and business stakeholders; providing overall product ownership across the Fixed Income organization, with Portfolio Management and related workflows being a significant focus for this role. Members of the team partner with front office engineering teams to deliver high quality software products to investment staff.

As part of the team, you will:

• Build relationships with business stakeholders and representatives across all fixed income asset types.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers to build a product roadmap, ensure product features align to the long-term strategic needs of stakeholders.
• Work alongside Engineers to develop prototype code that defines complex business logic and domain specific calculation methodologies.
• Understand the holistic needs of stakeholders and propose innovative technology solutions to drive business outcomes.

Our company has made a big investment in the future of our technology and data. We have a vision of what we can achieve and ambitious plans to get there. We hold collaboration as a core tenet of how we accomplish our goals. You should be interested in a team‑oriented approach; curious and enthusiastic learners will be amongst their tribe here. We are a group of diverse thinkers, working together with different perspectives to create optimal solutions to continue to propel T Rowe Price to great heights. This role is an evolution of the traditional BA role, with emphasis placed on mixing subject matter expertise with an engineering mindset.

Core Competencies and Responsibilities:

• Develop and sustain relationships with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers, Quants and Investment Analysts across the globe.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and engineering teams to understand, develop, and deliver a product business case and roadmap for Fixed Income portfolio management.
• Define, develop and prioritize a product backlog and provide clear communication to stakeholders.
• Work closely with agile technology teams to implement business requirements and automation.
• Identify data quality and integrity issues and provide resolution recommendations after performing in-depth analysis.
• Must be able to independently “troubleshoot” functional and/or quantitative problems in portfolio analytics.

Required Qualifications/Experience:

• 5+ years of related experience in a Business Analyst role.

Preferred Qualifications/Experience:

• Experience working with Portfolio Managers and Trading teams.
• Experience working with portfolio management and trading platforms.
• Systems analysis or experience working with and analyzing data for Front Office functions.
• General knowledge and awareness of macro financial markets and more specifically, the Asset Management industry.
• Solid data analysis skills - SQL database queries, Excel/Access file manipulation, Jupyter notebooks.
• Experience collaborating with engineering teams using tools like Jira and Confluence.

Work Flexibility

This position is eligible for hybrid working with up to three day from home per week.

T. Rowe Price is an asset management firm focused on delivering global investment management excellence and retirement services that investors can rely on–now, and over the long term.