Business Analyst specialized in Algo Trading and Real-Time Trading Applications

About Quanteam

As the founding entity of RAINBOW PARTNERS, Quanteam is a consulting firm specializing in the fields of Banking, Finance, and Financial Services. Guided by our core values of closeness, teamwork, diversity, and excellence, our team of 1,000 expert consultants, representing 35 different nationalities, collaborates across 10 international offices: Paris, Lyon, New York, Montreal, London, Brussels, Geneva, Lisbon, Porto and Casablanca.

About the Role

We are looking for a Business Analyst specialized in Algo Trading and Real-Time Trading Applications to support an Equity trading environment within a leading investment bank.

You will work closely with Traders, Quant/Strats, and IT teams to enhance and maintain low-latency, real-time trading applications, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid delivery of functional improvements.

This is a highly interactive Front Office-facing role requiring strong market understanding, excellent communication skills, and the ability to drive requirements from trading desks into scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the Business Analyst interface between Equity traders, Quants/Strats, and Technology teams
• Gather, structure, and document business requirements for algo trading strategies and real-time trading tools
• Translate trading needs into functional specifications, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria
• Support enhancements on real-time trading applications (order entry, pricing, execution, monitoring, alerts)
• Contribute to the specification and implementation of:
  • Algo execution flows (VWAP, TWAP, POV, Implementation Shortfall, Smart Routing, etc.)
  • Market data consumption & normalization
  • Pre-trade controls and post-trade analytics
  • Risk/limits, compliance checks, kill-switch, and safety mechanisms
• Participate in UAT, define test scenarios, and validate outputs with the business
• Support production topics: incident triage, functional analysis, priority definition, and communication
• Work with stakeholders to optimize latency-sensitive flows, scalability, and system reliability
• Build and maintain functional documentation and training materials for end-users

Required Skills & Experience

• 7+ years experience as a Business Analyst in Front Office / Trading environments
• Strong knowledge of Equity markets and electronic trading
• Solid understanding of algo trading & execution workflows
• Experience working on real-time applications and trading tools supporting low-latency execution
• Strong ability to interact with:
  • Traders
  • Quantitative teams / Strats
  • Developers and production support
• Excellent analytical skills: ability to investigate issues, identify root causes, and propose solutions
• Very good documentation skills: BRD / FSD / user stories, process flows
• Comfortable in fast-paced environments and able to handle critical production situations