Strategic Technical Business Analyst – Backlog & Delivery

Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd seeks a Technical Business Analyst to shape requirements and drive alignment in ambiguous situations. You will translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items and testable outcomes, collaborating with engineering, QA, and architecture to define acceptance criteria and QA validation needs.

You will act as a proxy for stakeholders, guiding scope, prioritisation, and triage, and participate in planning and estimation activities across delivery

Qualifications

• Experience in QA, Software Engineering or Technical Business Analysis in a highly technical product environment.
• Ability to translate complex solutions into structured backlog items and testable outcomes.
• Comfort making quick, firm decisions on scope and prioritisation.

Responsibilities

• Shape the backlog and delivery by translating complex technical solutions into structured backlog items, stories, and testable outcomes.
• Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture to align on acceptance criteria and QA validation.
• Define and maintain functional and non-functional requirements across distributed workflows.
• Be the proxy for stakeholders, driving clarity and prioritisation decisions.
• Drive backlog review, estimation, and planning activities.
• Define upfront acceptance criteria and tests using a Business-Driven Development approach.
• Support delivery, implementation, and release processes to meet business objectives.

Skills

Technical Business Analysis

QA Experience

Java

Agile / Kanban

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Aeron

Kafka

Hydra

Job description

Adaptive Financial Consulting Ltd seeks a Technical Business Analyst to shape requirements and drive alignment in ambiguous situations. You will translate complex technical solutions into structured backlog items and testable outcomes, collaborating with engineering, QA, and architecture to define acceptance criteria and QA validation needs.

You will act as a proxy for stakeholders, guiding scope, prioritisation, and triage, and participate in planning and estimation activities across delivery