IT Business Analyst

Summary

Join our team as a senior Business Analyst in Prague! This hybrid role, working with an individual contractor agreement, requires a proactive approach and conceptual thinking to drive key changes in the bank's transformation program. You will be a key member of the team, responsible for identifying business needs, analyzing requirements, and collaborating with stakeholders. The position demands strong analytical and communication skills, experience in a banking environment, and proficiency in English. Long-term collaboration is expected, with a start date in January 2025. The role involves a minimum of 80% FTE allocation.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in a similar role
• Knowledge and experience in a banking environment
• Active English language skills – communication with suppliers, document creation
• Structured, reliable, and independent work style
• Analytical thinking, meticulousness, and the ability to learn quickly
• Teamwork and results orientation
• Proactive approach (in obtaining information, determining priorities and further procedures, solving tasks)
• Communication and organizational skills – ability to effectively communicate with the bank's business units and IT roles, plan and conduct meetings and workshops
• Ability to negotiate constructively and reach agreements
• Experience in business and/or IT architecture

Responsibilities

• Identify business needs and transform them into business requirements aligned with the program's vision and goals
• Analyze, prioritize, and validate business requirements across stakeholders, ensuring their approval
• Take responsibility for the design of solutions in the assigned area, ensuring content consistency and quality
• Collaborate on the development of analytical artifacts that feed into IT analysis and development
• Consult on requirements with business stakeholders, including Business Architects, Product Owners, Solution Architects, Technical Designers, and Operations
• Estimate workload for all involved roles in the analysis phase and reflect this in project timing
• Provide consulting support during project phases: architectural design, IT analysis, design, development, and testing

Preferred Qualifications

• Willingness to further develop and train junior colleagues
• Experience working with a CASE Tool (e.g., Enterprise Architect)
• Knowledge of UML and object-oriented analysis
• Active knowledge of Confluence, JIRA
• Experience working in agile and waterfall environments
• Willingness to actively help internal partners and find solutions for them
• Ability to coordinate the delivery of a smaller analytical team within a project
• Knowledge and experience in one of the following domains: product catalogue, product lifecycle management, pricing, billing
• Knowledge of banking products (especially current/savings/term accounts, loans, cards, and others)
• Experience with solutions based on microservice architecture
• Experience with integration and cloud projects