Sr. Business Analyst (Quant Systems Overhaul)

Talan – Positive Innovation

Talan is an international consulting group specializing in innovation and business transformation through technology. With over 7,200 consultants in 21 countries and a turnover of €850M, we are committed to delivering impactful, future-ready solutions.

Talan at a Glance

Headquartered in Paris and operating globally, Talan combines technology, innovation, and empowerment to deliver measurable results for our clients. Over the past 22 years, we’ve built a strong presence in the IT and consulting landscape, and we’re on track to reach €1 billion in revenue this year.

Our Core Areas of Expertise

• Data & Technologies: We design and implement large-scale, end-to-end architecture and data solutions, including data integration, data science, visualization, Big Data, AI, and Generative AI.

• Cloud & Application Services: We integrate leading platforms such as SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, AWS, and IBM Maximo, helping clients transition to the cloud and improve operational efficiency.

• Management & Innovation Consulting: We lead business and digital transformation initiatives through project and change management best practices (PM, PMO, Agile, Scrum, Product Ownership), and support domains such as Supply Chain, Cybersecurity, and ESG/Low-Carbon strategies.

We work with major global clients across diverse sectors, including Transport & Logistics, Financial Services, Energy & Utilities, Retail, and Media & Telecommunications.

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst, experienced in working with trading floor Quants in the fixed income and credit derivatives space, with some overlap with FX. Ideally, this person has played a major role in performing similar overhauls at other investment banks.

The role of the Business Analyst will be critical to ensure full definition, visibility and understanding of the requirements across all stakeholders, and to communicate the detail of the requirements to the technical teams and architectural lead, to ensure delivery of a high-quality solution.

The Business Analyst will also perform project management functions; tracking and communicating progress to stakeholders, senior management and to the Rates/Credit Programme Manager.

Santander uses the Agile methodology, so the Business Analyst will be responsible for maintaining the Epics and User Stories consistent with a Roadmap, and for building out the content of the User Stories for consumption by the development and testing / QA teams.

Essential Skills / Experience

• Experience in working with Quants (or similar, who typically build core pricing and analytics libraries for Fixed Income Bonds, Swaps, Credit Derivatives and FX), and knowledge of such libraries and functions.
• Technical knowledge at high-level; while the candidate will not be required to define the details of the solution, they need to have good grasp of technical matters and to work closely with the technical team, in the context of a high performance, lower latency, scalable, modern, cloud-based architecture.
• Experience in requirements definition and requirements gathering and working with end-users, technical teams, and other stakeholders, in a formal structured IT project environment.
• Exposure to Agile requirements gathering and scrum / sprint cadences.
• Project management, tracking and communication to stakeholders and senior management.

Desirable (but not essential)

• A major consideration is, has this person already played a major role in performing similar overhauls as described above, at other investment banks.
• Spanish language would be a plus (although not required).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English.