Operational Resilience Business Analyst (Data)

Synechron; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible workplace arrangements

Learning and development programmes

Mentoring

Job summary

A global financial services firm is seeking a Senior Operational Resilience Business Analyst to join their Glasgow office for a contract-to-permanent role. The role involves working closely with stakeholders on data and business analysis in areas like Cyber Response and Operational Risk. Applicants should have over 10 years of experience, strong problem-solving, and communication skills. The position offers strong market rates and requires presence in the office three days a week.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Data and Business Analysis.
• Familiarity with cutting edge technology for solving business problems.
• Experience with LLM driven solutions and NLP practice.
• Program Management experience for large transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Driving business requirements from stakeholders for Resilience and Cyber.
• Using graph database to deliver insights and answers to business questions.
• Aligning data requirements to application development.
• Presenting deliverables to senior stakeholders.
• Tracking tooling adoption and gathering feedback.

Skills

Data and Business Analysis

Operational Risk

Resilience

Cyber Event Management

Incident Response

Strong communication skills

Strong problem-solving skills

Tools

Semantic graph

Ontology-Driven triple stores

Job description

Synechron is looking for a senior and experienced Operational Resilience, Incident Response BA/ SME to join a global banks Data department. The role joins an innovative program contributing to solving complex business problems around Data Lineage, Resilience, Cyber Response, Metadata Management, Data Protection.

The role combines business knowledge, project management skills and business analysis background with engineering and product development teams to produce outstanding technology capabilities, with measurable business impacts. You’ll work with highly inspired and inquisitive team of technologists who are developing and delivering top quality technology products to clients and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Driving and prioritising business requirements from multiple stakeholders, focusing on Resilience, Cyber and Incident Response
• Harness the power of a semantic triple store and graph database to help answer complex business questions, delivering insights and inference capabilities
• Work with the technology and data teams to help align requirements to application development within a graph framework, with a focused business impact
• Present business-impacting delibverables to senior stakeholders
• Track adoption and usage of tooling, and collect feedback and requirements through stakeholder engagement
• Align data requirements to application development within a graph framework
• Contribute to data modeling to ensure it can support a variety of use-cases from traditional reporting, to application UI’s and LLM-based chatbots and RAG query/responses
• Act as a role model to junior analysts, data scientists, business analysts and developers
• Help build a rapidly growing team in a competitive environment

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in Data and Business Analysis with a background in one or more of the following: Operational Risk, Resilience, Cyber Event Management, or incident response
• Familiarity with applying cutting edge technology with solving business problems
• Familiarity with semantic graph or Ontology-Driven triple stores
• Previous experience with LLM driven solutions and NLP practice
• Significant experience in Program Management for large transformation projects, with understanding of high-quality governance practices
• Strong communication skills with demonstrated ability to lead initiatives, including defining, implementing and reporting on progress and business impact
• Strong problem-solving skills, business acumen, and demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work with senior stakeholders, bringing different teams together to execute on a plan towards a common goal
• Experience in Banking or Financial Services a bonus

Contract to permanent role - GLASGOW x3 days a week - Strong market rates - High exposure role

Diversity Statement

Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.