Technical Business Analyst/Project Manager

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Technical Business Analyst/Project Manager to drive project lifecycles and deliver innovative technology solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to collaborate with senior stakeholders and various teams, ensuring the successful delivery of projects that align with business goals. Candidates will leverage their strong requirement elicitation and documentation skills to analyze processes and design end-to-end solutions. Join a dynamic environment where your contributions will significantly impact the firm's growth and success in the financial sector.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in finance, 2 years in a Technical Business Analyst or Project Manager role.
• Hands-on programming experience, preferably in Python or KDB+/q.

Responsibilities

• Analyze business processes, identify needs, and structure requirements into technical projects.
• Define project scope, goals, and ensure effective communication among stakeholders.

Skills

Requirement Elicitation

Documentation Skills

Software Development Lifecycle

Communication Skills

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Degree in Engineering

Tools

Atlassian Confluence

JIRA

Python

KDB+/q

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Client:

Squarepoint Capital

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Job Reference:

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Posted:

05.05.2025

Expiry Date:

19.06.2025

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Job Description:

Role: Technical Business Analyst/Project Manager

Team(s): Technical Business Analysis Team or Project Management Team

Department: Investment

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Position Overview:

As a Technical Business Analyst or Project Manager, you will be the key driver of the entire project lifecycle; starting from using requirements elicitation techniques to gather business requirements, identify problems or discover gaps, evaluate project objectives and track progress, to ultimately ensure successful delivery of the project.

This presents the opportunity to take ownership of the business objectives and the development of technology solutions to facilitate the growth of the business. You will act as the primary interface between senior stakeholders, Business Product Management Team, Quantitative Research, Trading, Development, Quality Assurance, Production Support and Infrastructure Teams.

Successful candidates will either join Squarepoint's Technical Business Analysis Team or Project Management Team based on skillsets, strengths and personal preference.

The main responsibilities for Technical Business Analysts include:

• Analyze current business processes and establish the full picture.
• Identify technical needs and problems to solve based on thorough analysis.
• Structure and scope requirements into technical projects.
• Design end-to-end solutions, propose implementation options, provide evaluations and recommendations to make optimal decisions for the firm.
• Drive the product design that aligns with firm-wide goals by collaborating with business and technology stakeholders.
• Create and maintain product and project specifications with exceptionally high level of accuracy.
• Manage functional/technical knowledge and content and drive outstanding questions towards closure.
• Establish project implementation plan and proactivelymonitorproject progress while managing multiple priorities and communicating the priorities effectively to the project stakeholders.

The main responsibilities for Project Managers include:

• Define the project scope, goals, stakeholders, milestones, dependencies and risks related to the project.
• Create and maintain the project specifications/plan that is clear, comprehensive, feasible and agreed by project stakeholders.
• Ensure effective communications throughout the project among the project team members as well as with stakeholders and management.
• Serve as the point of contact for the project, coordinate with project team members and resolve conflicts to ensure successful project delivery.
• Proactively identify blockers and risks and escalate when necessary.
• Participate in change management and process improvement initiatives as well as optimize existing procedures and controls.
• Provide project transparency to stakeholders by giving comprehensive project updates on regular basis.

The ideal candidate for this role should have:

• Strong requirement elicitation skills: ability to capture, conceptualize and structure requirements to simple, concise and comprehensive requirement specifications to minimize requirement gaps.
• Strong documentation skills: ability to create and maintain highly accurate requirement specifications, project and product documents according to Squarepoint documentation standards.
• Ability to abstract concepts, identify gaps and subtle differences, connect dots, internalize information, relate information to implications and question effectively.
• Ability to develop and maintain strategic partnerships with senior management, project stakeholders and end users globally, as well as communicate effectively across business and development teams.
• Good understanding on software/hardware concepts, software architecture design and software development lifecycle (Waterfall or Agile).
• Knowledge of various asset classes in either listed or OTC financial instruments such as Equities, Futures, Options or Fixed Income instruments.
• Self-driven, independent, reliable, collaborative and strong sense of ownership.
• Self-organized, exceptionally high level of accuracy in both written and verbal communication and attention to detail.
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously across differentdomains.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 to 10 years of total industry experience within finance with at least 2 years in a Technical Business Analyst role or Project Manager role.
• Hands-on programming experience is required, preferably in Python or KDB+/q.
• Atlassian Confluence and JIRA expertise is required, including corresponding macros/plug-ins.
• Experience in initiating, defining, drivingand implementingprojects with explicitly scoped project milestones.
• Degree in a Computer Science, Engineering field or equivalent.

Nice to have:

• Experience in Microservice, Domain-Driven Design, API Design, cloud-native applications, distributed systems and DevOps is a plus.