Summary: The Business Analyst role focuses on bridging the gap between business stakeholders and technical teams, particularly in the context of API, microservices, and payment technologies. The position involves creating operational designs, defining business objectives, and ensuring stakeholder alignment throughout the development process. The analyst will also quantify the impact of technology on users and guide best practices in design and implementation. This hybrid role requires a blend of business acumen and technical understanding to drive effective solutions in a banking environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand business problems and bridge the gap between stakeholders and technical teams.
• Input into ideation and create problem statements to drive alignment on business objectives.
• Produce epics and user stories to define the backlog based on customer needs.
• Create effective operational designs focused on customer outcomes and explain operational impacts.
• Participate in the design process to resolve issues and ensure traceability of business needs.
• Quantify the impact of technology on customers and inform related business readiness activities.
• Unify stakeholder views to define business needs while balancing value, risk, and customer experience.
• Provide best practice guidance and expertise in process, technology, and regulation.

Key Skills:

• Understanding of data transfer and APIs.
• Agile methodology and technical understanding of APIs and microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of cloud-based applications.
• Familiarity with payment technologies and the payment industry.
• Good understanding of Agile/Waterfall methodologies.
• Experience with Scrum and Kanban.
• Knowledge of lifecycle management.
• Awareness of business analysis frameworks.
• Experience conducting business analysis in Agile and Waterfall environments.
• Good understanding of financial regulations.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Northampton

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other