Business Analyst (BA/PM)

Overview

Join us as a “Business Analyst (BA/PM)" at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. You'll harness cutting-edge technology to revolutionise our digital offerings, ensuring unapparelled customer experiences.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as experience with, skills to meet business requirement as well as job-specific skillsets.

To be successful as a “Business Analyst (BA/PM)", you should have experience with:

Basic/ Essential Qualifications

• Must have bachelor’s degree.
• Strong experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements for software development projects.
• Proficiency in creating detailed functional specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into clear technical requirements.
• Experience working within Agile development methodologies and participating in Scrum ceremonies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to engage across business and technology teams.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities with attention to detail.
• Experience with requirements management and documentation tools (JIRA, Confluence).
• Ability to create and maintain process flows, user journeys, and business process models.
• Strong facilitation skills for requirements gathering workshops and stakeholder meetings.
• Experience working with API and microservices-based architectures from a business perspective.
• Understanding of banking/financial services domain concepts and terminology.
• Ability to validate delivered solutions against business requirements through UAT planning and execution.
• Experience working in regulated environments with compliance and security considerations.
• Strong communication skills with ability to present complex information clearly to diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in geographically distributed team environments.
  
  
  

• Scrum Alliance – Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe – Product Owner/ Product.
• Manager (POPM), CBAP - IIBA, or equivalent business analysis certification.
• Experience with data analysis and SQL for requirements validation and business intelligence.
• Understanding UX/UI design principles and user-centered design approaches.
• Knowledge of banking industry standards, regulations, and compliance requirements.
• Experience with process improvement methodologies (Six Sigma, Lean).
• Familiarity with technical concepts including APIs, microservices, and cloud technologies.
• Experience with visualization tools for requirements and data representation.
• Understanding of testing methodologies and quality assurance processes.
• Knowledge of change management principles and organizational transformation.
• Experience with product backlog management and prioritization techniques.
• Familiarity with DevOps concepts and CI/CD pipeline processes from a business perspective.
  
  
  

This role is based out of Pune.

Purpose of the role

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
  
  
  

• To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes
• If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.
• Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
• Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
• Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
• Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
• Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
• Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
• Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.
• Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.
  
  
  

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.