Technical Analyst

Symbiotic Group; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Symbiotic Group is seeking a Technical Analyst to bridge business requirements and technical delivery in a lending solutions environment. The role focuses on credit decisioning, financial spreading, and data initiatives across configuration-driven applications, testing, and releases.

You will collaborate with data engineering, analytics, and product teams; manage Jira workflows; participate in Agile ceremonies; and contribute to data governance, observability, and modernization efforts,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Business Analysis, Technical Analysis, Product Analysis, or related technology delivery roles.
• Experience supporting enterprise software implementations, configuration-driven applications, or COTS platforms.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications, rules, configurations, and testable requirements.
• Experience coordinating software releases across development, testing, and production environments.
• Experience creating and executing test plans, test cases, regression testing, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams using Jira and Azure DevOps.
• Experience supporting incident investigation, production issues, and enhancement requests.
• Experience with financial systems, lending platforms, or financial analysis solutions is an asset.
• Experience with cloud-based data pipelines and modern data platforms is an asset.
• Nice to have: English-French bilingual in professional context.

Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain business rules, calculations, financial spreading logic, and related platform components.
• Translate business and lending requirements into technical configurations, rule definitions, and solution specifications.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to support modernization via cloud data platforms and integration.
• Support data quality, observability, governance, and traceability requirements across data assets.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, Product Owners, and development teams to define requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Create, manage, and refine Jira stories, defects, enhancements, and release documentation.
• Coordinate and support software releases across development, testing, and production environments.
• Execute and support functional, regression, system integration, and user acceptance testing.
• Perform post-release validation and quality assurance activities.
• Investigate and resolve production issues in collaboration with tech and business teams.
• Develop and maintain configuration, testing, release, and operations documentation.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to credit adjudication, financial spreading, data quality, and operational efficiency.

Skills

Business Analysis

Technical Analysis

Product Analysis

Agile / Jira

Azure DevOps

Data Platforms

Cloud Data

English-French bilingual

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

AWS Glue

DataHub

dbt

Job description

Position: Technical Analyst - Credit Decisioning, Financial Spreading & Data

Location: Toronto, ON

Job ID#: RFR-I023

Duration: 12 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Technical Analyst to support credit decisioning, financial spreading, and data initiatives within a lending solutions environment. The successful candidate will bridge business requirements and technical implementation, supporting configuration-driven applications, testing activities, software releases, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure and maintain business rules, calculations, financial spreading logic, and related platform components.
• Translate business and lending requirements into technical configurations, rule definitions, and solution specifications.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to support modernization initiatives involving cloud-based data platforms and data integration capabilities.
• Support data quality, observability, governance, and traceability requirements where solutions interact with enterprise data assets.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Product Owners, and development teams to define requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Create, manage, and refine Jira stories, defects, enhancement requests, and release documentation.
• Coordinate and support software releases across development, testing, and production environments.
• Execute and support functional testing, regression testing, system integration testing, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Perform post-release validation and quality assurance activities to ensure successful implementation of changes.
• Investigate and resolve production issues, incidents, and defects in collaboration with technology and business teams.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to configurations, testing, release processes, and operational support procedures.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives related to credit adjudication, financial spreading, data quality, and operational efficiency.

Required Experience

• 5+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Technical Analysis, Product Analysis, or related technology delivery roles.
• Experience supporting enterprise software implementations, configuration-driven applications, or commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) platforms.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical specifications, rules, configurations, and testable requirements.
• Experience coordinating software releases across development, testing, and production environments.
• Experience creating and executing test plans, test cases, regression testing, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams using tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps.
• Experience supporting incident investigation, production issues, and enhancement requests.
• Experience working with financial systems, lending platforms, credit adjudication processes, or financial analysis solutions is considered an asset.
• Experience working with cloud-based data pipelines and modern data platforms is considered an asset.

Required Skills

Business & Financial Analysis

• Working knowledge of financial statements including balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements.
• Understanding of common financial and credit-risk ratios and their use in lending and adjudication processes.
• Ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into system functionality and business rules.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

Technical Skills

• Experience configuring business rules and application behavior through configuration-driven technologies.
• Ability to read, create, and maintain structured configuration files such as XML, JSON, YAML, or similar formats.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices, including Dev, Test/UAT, and Production environments.
• Experience supporting application releases, release validation, and post-release verification activities.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Quality Assurance & Delivery

• Experience creating and executing functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify defects, inconsistencies, and data quality issues.
• Experience documenting test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and release evidence.
• Commitment to delivering high-quality solutions through thorough testing and validation.

Data & Modernization (Asset)

• Understanding of modern data architecture and data integration concepts.
• Familiarity with AWS Glue and related cloud data technologies.
• Familiarity with DataHub, dbt, data observability, and data governance concepts.
• Understanding of ETL/ELT processes and modern data pipeline design.
• Knowledge of Data Vault 2.0 concepts is considered an asset.

Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of both official languages (English Advanced; French Intermediate) is considered an asset.

About Symbiotic Digital.

Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done. See what the top 2% in their field can do for you. (Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.) We serve customers in two ways, we provide:

• Digital Experts: IT Consulting expertise. Bright Minds That Produce Proven Results
• Recruitment: Find The Right People You Need

Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems. IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model. We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.