Business Analyst
Barclays · Posted Oct 27
Banking, credit card, corporate, investment banking, and wealth management services
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About the role
Barclays is seeking a Business Analyst to bridge business stakeholders and software engineering teams within a banking environment. The role covers retail and digital banking, payments and cards, lending, customer onboarding/KYC, and API/integration change. The analyst will translate business needs into technical requirements, support agile delivery teams, and help ensure solutions meet regulatory and customer expectations.
What you will do
- The successful candidate will be responsible for understanding business needs, translating them into detailed technical requirements, supporting agile delivery teams, and ensuring that technology solutions align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and customer expectations.
- To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.
- Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
- Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
- Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
- Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
- Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Analyse banking products and processes including: Retail and Digital Banking Payments and Cards Processing Lending Savings & Current Accounts Customer Onboarding and KYC
- Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, risk controls, security requirements, and internal governance standards.
- Work closely with software engineers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Prioritize and manage product backlogs in collaboration with Product Owners.
- Support development teams with requirement clarifications and business context.
- Perform data analysis and validation using SQL and reporting tools.
- Define data requirements and support data migration initiatives.
- Assist in creating business reports, dashboards, and KPIs.
Preferred qualifications
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
- Understanding of software engineering concepts and system architecture
- SQL and data analysis
- API and integration understanding (REST, JSON, XML)
- Process Mapping
- Gap Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, AWS, DevOps, or Confluence
- Payments and Card Processing
- KYC / AML Compliance
- Core Banking Systems
- Financial Products and Services
- Risk and Regulatory Requirements
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
- Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities
- Proven ability to read and translate Open API/Swagger Specs and UCRs to defi ne and document API requirements (user stories, acceptance criteria, data models)
- Experience delivering API/integration change across the full lifecycle, working with engineering, architecture, and 3rd parties.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Barclays
Barclays is a British multinational universal bank that provides consumer, corporate, and investment banking, as well as wealth management services. Tracing its origins back to 1690 in London, the institution operates globally to serve millions of retail and institutional clients. The bank leverages cutting-edge technology and digital platforms to drive operational efficiency across its international network.
- Industry
- Banking
- Company size
- 93000+ employees
- Founded
- 1690
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Group Chief Executive
Group Finance Director
Group Chief Operating Officer
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