Senior Technical Business Analyst - Fintech - NYC - Salary up to 200K depending on experience + Benefits

<div class="positionDetailsBox"> <div class="viewDetailsLink"> <h3>WE ARE:</h3> <p>At Adaptive, we are a financial consulting firm that partners with capital, commodity, and digital market participants. We value differentiation through technology.</p> <p>Our experienced teams design and deliver complex front-office technology solutions using our proven accelerators to create long-term competitive advantage.</p> <p>Our clients include the world's leading investment banks, investment managers, fintechs and capital market service providers.</p> <p>With a global reach with offices in London, New York, Manila, Barcelona and Montreal, we have a proven track record of delivering powerful, elegant and intuitive trading technology solutions.</p> <p>We are now looking for a <strong>Technical Business Analyst</strong> to join our team — someone who can bridge the gap between high-level product vision and detailed delivery execution in a complex, fast-moving technical environment.</p> <p>If you feel like this is you, you might be a perfect fit for this role! 🎉<br><br></p> <h3>YOU ARE:</h3> <ul> <li>A <strong>strategic thinker</strong> who can zoom out to understand the big picture and zoom in to nail the details.</li> <li>A <strong>natural bridge-builder</strong> — equally comfortable in a room full of engineers and a room full of stakeholders.</li> <li>A <strong>problem-solver</strong> who thrives in ambiguity and brings calm, clarity, and structure to complex situations.</li> <li>A <strong>curious mind</strong> who genuinely enjoys understanding <em>how</em> systems work, not just <em>what</em> they need to do.</li> <li>A <strong>collaborative team player</strong> who believes the best solutions come from diverse perspectives.</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <h3>YOU HAVE:</h3> <ul> <li>A strong <strong>technical and domain-driven mindset,</strong> with the ability to work closely with engineering teams.</li> <li>Hands-on experience with high-performance messaging or sequencing platforms such as <strong>Aeron, Kafka, Hydra, or equivalent</strong> — including an understanding of message ordering, state machine replication, and fault-tolerant distributed systems</li> <li>Demonstrable exposure to low-latency or high-throughput messaging infrastructure in a financial or similarly demanding technical environment</li> <li>Experience in QA, Software Engineering, Technical Business Analysis, or another highly <strong>technical product environment.</strong></li> <li>A <strong>product-first mindset, </strong