Overview
We are seeking a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our team on an exciting fintech project. This role requires collaboration with engineering teams and stakeholders to shape requirements, clarify complex situations, and drive alignment across both technical and business spheres. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in translating intricate technical solutions into actionable tasks while ensuring that project goals align with business objectives.
Responsibilities
- Drive clarity in complex environments by shaping ambiguous requirements with minimal direction.
- Define and maintain functional and non-functional requirements aligned with distributed workflows and operational scenarios.
- Collaborate with engineering, QA, and architecture teams to translate technical solutions into structured backlog items and deliverable stories.
- Act as stakeholders' proxy in the team, making timely decisions on scope and prioritization.
- Work closely with QA to assess failure scenarios and distinguish between bugs and feature requirements.
- Facilitate discussions across technical and business stakeholders for clarity and decision-making.
- Support delivery processes ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer use cases.
- Help improve operational processes and workflows using a calm and collaborative approach.
Requirements
- Proven experience in Technical Business Analysis, QA, or Software Engineering in a high-tech environment, ideally as a senior Java developer.
- Hands-on experience with high-performance messaging platforms such as Aeron, Kafka, or similar.
- Understanding of system behavior beyond functional outcomes and the ability to communicate across technical and business audiences.
- Experience working within Agile or Kanban methodologies throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Strong technical mindset with a focus on performance, scalability, and resilience in systems design.
- Ability to create process flows, documentation, and clearly defined acceptance criteria.
- Demonstrable experience in contributing to architecture discussions and simplifying complex problems.