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Senior Business Analyst – Capital Markets / Digital Assets
Location: Lower Manhattan, NYC (flexible travel)
Job Type: Contract
Duration: 1-2 Year Engagement
Overview
Our client, a leading fintech brokerage infrastructure platform, is expanding several strategic initiatives within its digital assets and trading infrastructure environment. They are seeking hands-on Senior Business Analysts who can operate as embedded individual contributors supporting multiple product and engineering workstreams.
This role sits within a regulated broker-dealer environment and supports platform development across three high-priority initiatives:
- Margin Trading Infrastructure
- Tokenized Securities
- Crypto-Native Services
The Business Analysts in this program will flex across workstreams based on engineering priorities and delivery needs.
The Role
This position is designed for execution-focused Business Analysts who take ownership of requirements and drive delivery through engineering teams.
Successful candidates will:
- Own business requirements and functional specifications
- Translate complex stakeholder needs into engineering-ready documentation
- Drive UAT planning and delivery validation
- Partner closely with product managers, engineers, compliance, and risk teams
- Support multiple platform initiatives simultaneously as priorities evolve
This is an embedded delivery role, not a coordination or advisory position.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end requirements documentation, including:
- Business Requirement Documents (BRDs)
- Functional specifications
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Translate stakeholder needs into clear engineering requirements
- Create workflow diagrams, process flows, and system interaction documentation
- Partner directly with engineering teams throughout the SDLC lifecycle
- Lead UAT planning, execution support, and validation
- Ensure engineering delivery aligns with regulatory and operational requirements
- Support cross-workstream platform initiatives, flexing between projects as priorities shift
- Identify gaps, risks, and dependencies across systems and delivery timelines
Required Qualifications
1. Business Analyst Delivery Experience (Non-Negotiable)
Candidates must demonstrate hands-on BA execution, including:
- Writing BRDs and functional specifications
- Requirements elaboration and traceability
- Supporting UAT cycles
- Driving requirements through engineering sign-off
This role requires individual contributors who own delivery, not coordinators or program managers.
2. Financial Services Experience
Experience working within a regulated financial institution, such as:
- Broker-dealers
- Clearing firms
- Custodians
- Investment banks
- Capital markets platforms
3. Regulated Platform or Fintech Delivery
Experience delivering systems within regulated financial environments such as:
- FINRA / SEC regulated broker-dealers
- Clearing and settlement platforms
- Trading systems
- Financial market infrastructure
Preferred Experience
While not required, the following experience is beneficial:
- Digital asset infrastructure
- Blockchain or tokenized asset platforms
- Margin trading systems
- Prime brokerage technology
- Post-trade settlement systems
- Market infrastructure platforms