Luxoft

Business Analyst

Luxoft$80K — $110K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience as a business analyst in trading platforms
  • In-depth knowledge of OMS/EMS architecture and FIX protocol
  • Strong grasp of the end-to-end trade lifecycle and market data domains
  • Experience in designing trading workflows for various financial instruments
  • Technical fluency in SQL; familiarity with Python is a plus
  • Excellent communication and documentation skills
  • C1 Advanced level of English proficiency

Responsibilities

  • Collect and articulate customer expectations and requirements
  • Write user stories and acceptance criteria using Behavioral Driven Development
  • Manage best practices and ensure consistent application
  • Analyze existing business processes to identify improvement areas
  • Design future business processes and assess feasibility of requirements
  • Review UI/UX designs to align with stakeholder expectations
  • Provide regular status updates to stakeholders

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional growth and development
  • Access to innovative projects within trading technology
  • Collaborative work environment engaging with cross-functional teams
  • Potential for involvement in cutting-edge financial technologies
Full Job Description
Project description

Collect expectations and requirements of the customer

Write user stories and acceptance criteria utilizing Behavioral Driven Development

Manage best practice and ensuring these practices are used

Understands the effects of technology used within the development, and the impact on the business client

Produce quality deliverables and meet deadlines

Customer' expectations management

UI/UX designs reviewing

Specifications (user stories) creation and reviewing

Business requirements gathering through capturing of user stories, prototyping etc.

Analysis of as-is business processes, identifying gaps and areas for improvement

Design to-be business processes, perform impact & feasibility analysis of the requirements

Regular status reporting

Skills

Must have

Domain & Techno-Functional Skills:

Proven BA experience supporting trading platforms, with deep knowledge of OMS/EMS architecture, FIX protocol, market/client connectivity, and TCA/best execution analysis

Strong understanding of the end-to-end trade lifecycle: order creation, execution events, clearing, settlement, corporate actions, rebalancing, market rehearsals, and connectivity testing/certification

Strong command of front-office trading data domains, including data attributes, lineage, quality controls, inter-system dependencies, and interactions between trading, market, and reference data

Hands-on experience designing and implementing trading workflows across cash equities, listed & OTC derivatives, and FX

Experience with money market instruments (e.g., REPO, stock borrowing and lending) is a plus

Deep understanding of synthetics and swap products (TRS, FX Swaps, IRS) and associated implementations, including inter-account booking and internal cross scenarios

Ability to decompose complex trade structures into executable flows spanning order capture, routing, execution, fills, allocations, ticketing, financing, internalization, and risk/house bookings

Behavioral & Interpersonal Skills:

Excellent communication skills; ability to partner effectively with traders, operations, and business & technology stakeholders

Strong documentation skills - able to translate high-level business requirements into well-structured BRDs and test plans covering scope, assumptions, exclusions, business rules, and edge scenarios

Technical fluency in SQL and stored procedures; ability to read Python code is an advantage

Highly organized with strong ability to manage priorities, track dependencies, and maintain clarity across deliverables

Results-driven with a focus on timely execution and proactive resolution of blockers

Nice to have

Certified scrum master certification is a plus

Other

Languages

English: C1 Advanced

Seniority

Senior

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