Technical Business Analyst (Capital Markets / FIX Protocol)

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Business Analyst with strong experience in Capital Markets and electronic trading environments to support strategic initiatives related to FIX Gateway solutions, client onboarding, trading connectivity, and order flow management.

This role requires a professional who combines deep business analysis expertise with hands-on technical knowledge of trading systems, FIX Protocol messaging, and Capital Markets infrastructure. The successful candidate will work closely with business stakeholders, development teams, QA, operations, and external clients to deliver scalable and reliable trading solutions across fast-paced financial environments.

The ideal candidate has proven experience supporting FIX onboarding and certification processes directly, including hands-on troubleshooting, FIX session analysis, message validation, and testing activities within trading ecosystems — especially in Fixed Income or broader Capital Markets environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with business stakeholders, technology teams, and external clients to gather, analyze, and document both business and technical requirements for trading applications and FIX connectivity solutions.
• Support end-to-end delivery of technology initiatives, including requirements analysis, functional specification documentation, testing coordination, implementation support, and post-production validation.
• Work directly with FIX Gateway platforms, inbound order flow systems, and associated risk-checking components within electronic trading environments.
• Perform hands-on FIX Protocol analysis, including troubleshooting FIX sessions, validating message flows, analyzing connectivity issues, and supporting certification activities.
• Manage and support client onboarding processes, ensuring successful connectivity setup, certification execution, and production readiness.
• Analyze trading workflows, order lifecycle processes, and Capital Markets operational flows to identify optimization opportunities and process improvements.
• Create detailed functional and non-functional requirements, including business rules, exception handling, service mapping, and technical integration specifications.
• Execute integrated system testing, UAT support, and production validation activities to ensure solutions meet business and technical expectations.
• Develop and maintain test cases, process flows, functional solution documents (FSDs), and implementation documentation.
• Work closely with developers, QA teams, vendors, and operations teams to ensure accurate understanding and delivery of business requirements.
• Perform SQL query analysis and UNIX log analysis to support troubleshooting, data validation, and trading application investigations.
• Translate technical concepts into business-friendly language and communicate business requirements effectively to technical teams.
• Provide updates to management regarding project status, risks, remediation plans, testing progress, and change requests.
• Support multiple concurrent projects and workstreams within highly dynamic and fast-paced trading environments.
• Collaborate with UX and Design teams when applicable to help visualize workflows and solution prototypes.
• Participate in occasional off-hours support, weekend implementations, or on-call activities when required by trading operations.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst or Business Analyst within Capital Markets or electronic trading environments.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of FIX Protocol, including FIX messaging, session management, onboarding, and certification processes.
• Experience working directly with FIX connectivity, message flow validation, and trading workflow troubleshooting.
• Solid understanding of trading systems, electronic trading platforms, and order flow lifecycle concepts.
• Experience supporting FIX Gateway solutions and inbound order management processes.
• Strong experience gathering requirements and creating functional and technical documentation for trading applications.
• Hands-on experience with SQL queries for data analysis and validation.
• Experience performing UNIX/Linux log analysis and troubleshooting production issues.
• Experience supporting UAT, integrated testing, defect remediation, and implementation activities.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with both business and technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively across multiple application stacks and technical environments.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
• Ability to thrive in highly technical, fast-paced, and delivery-oriented environments.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within Fixed Income trading environments.
• Exposure to FIX Gateway platforms and risk-checking components.
• Experience scripting or validating FIX sessions and trading connectivity workflows.
• Experience working with Oracle, SQL Server, Mainframe, or distributed trading systems.
• Knowledge of Capital Markets infrastructure, trading workflows, and electronic execution platforms.
• Experience collaborating with vendors and third-party trading technology providers.
• Previous experience acting as project lead or coordinating small technical initiatives.
• Familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and software development lifecycle processes.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, MIS, Engineering, or related field.
• Equivalent combination of education, technical training, and relevant professional experience may also be considered.

Important Notes

This role requires hands-on experience with FIX onboarding, certification, and trading connectivity activities. Candidates who only coordinated vendors or managed communication without directly performing FIX-related technical analysis, troubleshooting, or certification activities may not be the ideal fit for this opportunity.

Strong experience within trading environments, FIX Protocol expertise, SQL analysis, and UNIX log investigation are critical for success in this role.