Business Analyst

Clearwater Analytics is seeking a Business Analyst to enhance their order execution platform. The role involves leveraging trading expertise to design product features, collaborate with engineering and product teams, and contribute to client discussions as a domain authority.

Responsibilities:

• Research complex trading workflows, FIX protocol behavior, and broker/venue integration requirements to propose and implement effective product solutions
• Partner with engineering and product teams on feature design, ensuring domain considerations are built in from the start
• Review requirements, design documents, and scope materials, providing substantive feedback across the development lifecycle
• Develop, maintain, and execute test plans — defining edge cases, analyzing data inputs, and validating feature behavior
• Log defects, retest, and verify fixes through resolution
• Contribute to client conversations as a domain authority
• Produce white papers and internal communications on methodology
• Collaborate with software engineers to implement new broker and venue staging connections, FIX protocol enhancements, and execution workflow changes
• Monitor shifts in your domain, anticipate downstream impacts of product changes, and identify opportunities for product expansion
• Mentor junior team members and help build the team's collective depth of knowledge

Requirements:

• Degree in finance, economics, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience on a buy-side or sell-side trading desk
• Strong foundation in trading and execution concepts with demonstrated experience working with the FIX protocol, broker and venue connectivity, and buy-side trader workflows
• Proven ability to work independently on complex, ambiguous problems
• Excellent written and verbal communication; comfortable leading client-facing conversations
• Collaborative working style across cross-functional teams
• Systems-level thinking — you understand how decisions in one area ripple across a platform, and you take ownership of getting ahead of those risks
• Experience writing white papers, methodology documentation, or other thought leadership content
• Familiarity with OMS/EMS platforms, FIX engines, or buy/sell-side trading desk operations
• Experience mentoring colleagues or leading cross-functional initiatives