Job Title
Senior Technical Business Analyst
Job Level
Senior Associate
Type of Employment
Permanent
Location
London
Aquis maintains a presence in both the UK and EU (primarily Paris). Aquis operates a hybrid working environment with a mixture of office and working from home days. In London we currently operate a minimum of 3 days working in the office.
Salary
Please ask recruiter or hiring manager.
Reports To
Co-Head of Product
About Aquis Exchange
Aquis Exchange (“Aquis”) is Europe’s challenger exchange, creating better markets for a modern economy. Aquis has market-leading technology and innovative rules for trading, and offer primary listings and secondary trading of equities, along with global licensing of proprietary technology.
Aquis consists of four divisions:
Aquis Markets operates lit and dark order books, covering 16 European markets. For its lit books, Aquis uses a subscription pricing model which works by charging users according to the message traffic they generate, rather than a percentage of the value of each stock that they trade.
Aquis Technologies is the software and technology division of Aquis. It focuses on building better markets via the creation and licensing of cutting-edge, cost-effective exchange infrastructure technology and services, including matching engine and trade surveillance solutions.
Aquis Stock Exchange (AQSE) is a stock market providing primary and secondary markets for equity and debt products. It is authorised as a Recognised Investment Exchange, which allows it to operate a regulated listings venue. The AQSE Growth Market is divided into two segments 'Access' and 'Apex'; the Access market focuses on earlier stage growth companies, while Apex is the intended market for larger, more established businesses.
Aquis Data generates revenue from the sale of data derived from Aquis Markets and Aquis Stock Exchange to non-Member market participants.
Aquis is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and France's Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution and L’Autorité des marchés financiers to operate Multilateral Trading Facility businesses in the UK & Switzerland markets and in EU27 markets respectively. Aquis is part of SIX: the provider and operator of stable and efficient infrastructure for the Swiss and Spanish financial centres. For more information, please go to
www.aquis.eu.
Our Culture
At Aquis, we’re proud of our culture - one built on trust, collaboration, and accountability. We work fast, support one another, and share responsibility for both our successes and our lessons learned.
Our values guide how we work every day:
• Win as One – We collaborate, share knowledge, and celebrate collective success.
• Disrupt Positively – We challenge the status quo and look for smarter, better ways to do things.
• Find Joy – We take pride in our work and enjoy what we do, even when it’s challenging.
• Act with Honour – We do the right thing, with integrity and respect for others.
You’ll join a supportive, ambitious, and diverse team where ideas are encouraged and innovation is part of our DNA. We recruit talented people from all walks of life and empower them to make an impact. If our values resonate with you, Aquis could be the ideal place to grow your career.
Benefits (not exhaustive list)
Competitive salary
25 days annual leave - not including bank holidays
Private medical insurance
Hybrid working
Flexible working hours
Company pension
Group Policies – Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness
Discretionary bonus
Electric Car Scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policy
Workplace Nursery Scheme
Cycle to Work scheme
Payroll Giving
Length of service holiday entitlement
Job Overview
The Product and Project Management team sits at the crossroads of most departments in the company, acting as the central coordination group touching development, sales/client management, operations, surveillance, quality assurance and senior management.
As part of the Product Management team, you will own the analysis and implementation of new initiatives and features across all 3 of Aquis’ business lines. Acting as a bridge between our stakeholders and engineering, you will be responsible for ensuring that product features align with the clients/business needs, gathering requirements, project planning, documenting solutions and more.
A high degree of attention to detail and professionalism is key to the role of maintaining stakeholder and client relationships. The successful candidate should be able to own and manage new product features concurrently, overseeing the delivery of software throughout the SDLC and escalating risks to delivery where appropriate. A strong technical background, particularly in systems integration, data flows, and infrastructure, will be critical to success in this role.
Responsibilities and Duties
• Requirements gathering – Work closely with other product managers, developers and architects to translate business needs into clear, technically robust specifications, identifying dependencies, interfaces, and technical constraints.
• Technical roadmap ownership – Work with architects and engineers to maintain the technical roadmap, identifying areas of technical debt or new application components across distributed systems.
• Technical documentation – Produce and maintain detailed technical and functional documentation, including API specifications, configuration workflows, and integration guides.
• Stakeholder engagement – Act as a central communication point between product, engineering, infrastructure, and operations, ensuring alignment of objectives and expectations.
• Process improvement – Identify inefficiencies in workflows, proposing automation or process improvements.
• Project management – Drive delivery of software and hardware initiatives, managing scope, timelines, and dependencies across cross-functional teams.
• Risk assessment – Anticipate technical and operational risks to delivery, proposing mitigations early in the project lifecycle.
Required Skills/Experience
The successful candidate will have a strong and positive work ethic with the ability to forge lasting
relationships (both internal and external) at all levels. The appetite and ability to learn in the role is
a must.
Essential
• Proven track record of specifying and delivering complex, low-level code systems (e.g. C++, Java), with strong knowledge of performance optimisation, latency management, concurrency, and integration considerations.
• Strong knowledge of networking principles (TCP, UDP, multicast) and experience designing for resilience, throughput, and low-latency data distribution.
• Expertise in distributed computing and system architectures, including microservices and high-throughput, low-latency systems.
• Strong knowledge of data architecture and database design, with experience across relational, time-series, and high-availability database environments.
• Understanding of on-premises Linux-based infrastructure, and deploying and managing containerised/virtualised environments (AWS, OpenShift).
• Demonstrated ability to work within Agile/Scrum SDLC, translating business objectives into actionable user stories and robust technical deliverables.
• Proven ability to produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation and API specifications suitable for both engineering and client consumption.
Desired
• Experience working with an electronically traded asset class.
• Strong business and technical understanding of exchange-based order book methodologies such as CLOB, auctions, dark trading, pegged orders and more.
• Familiarity with FIX trading protocol and market data systems.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
Skills
• Excellent verbal and client-facing skills, high degree of professionalism.
• Detail oriented.
• Collaborative.
• Analytical and problem-solving attitude.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
The statements included in this job description are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required.
Equal opportunities at Aquis Exchange.
We are an equal-opportunities employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
