Technical Business Analyst

TP ICAP; Belfast; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology services company in Belfast is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to work closely with business and technology teams. The role involves eliciting and documenting requirements, ensuring alignment with project priorities, and enhancing existing business processes. Ideal candidates will have a degree and experience in business analysis, preferably in a financial or technology context.

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in a business analysis role delivering complex systems.
• Ability to elicit and capture requirements using user stories and use cases.

Responsibilities

• Work with product owners to ensure delivery roadmap aligns with business priorities.
• Capture business needs in user stories for estimation and prioritization.
• Support teams in using planning and prioritization tools.

Skills

Eliciting requirements

Business analysis

Problem-solving

Risk management

Detail-oriented

Education

Degree or equivalent industry experience

Relevant Master’s or higher degree

Tools

Agile tooling

Job description

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The Technical Business Analyst (TBA) will elicit, understand, and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements while working closely with the TP ICAP Business, Corporate, and Technology teams.

The TBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The TBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third-party systems. The TBA will analyze, understand, and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to enhance process effectiveness.

Role Responsibilities

• Work closely with business product owners, analysts, and the development team to ensure the delivery roadmap aligns with business priorities.
• Assist development teams in identifying Stories that can be grouped into minimum viable deliveries for regular deployment.
• Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and release.
• Articulate business requirements to support planning and estimation.
• Capture business needs in user stories and use cases with sufficient detail for scope definition, estimation, and prioritization.
• Support the use of planning and prioritization tools to track deliveries, identify issues, and facilitate roadmap and iteration planning.
• Proactively support the team’s engagement in a well-defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritization, and delivery.
• Assist in defining scope and guiding estimation of work using domain and business knowledge.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries to address root causes across platforms or products.
• Challenge business assumptions to uncover actual problems, enabling the development of more efficient solutions.
• Ensure effective utilization of business prioritization gates within the SDLC by guiding product owners and analysts.
• Work with business product owners to articulate needs and priorities, capturing these in preferred formats like user stories and use cases.
• Support software team members in delivering high-quality solutions through all feature lifecycle stages: estimation, prioritization, testing, deployment.
• Collaborate with development teams, PEs, TLs, TDMs, and the business to analyze trade-offs between usability and delivery.
• Act as a liaison between business units, technology, and support teams.
• Identify and escalate risks appropriately.
• Work with Team Leaders to provide time/resource estimates, identify risks, and suggest mitigation strategies.

Experience / Competences:

• Degree or equivalent industry experience.
• Experience in a business analysis role delivering complex systems.
• Proficiency in eliciting and capturing requirements using user stories and use cases.
• Experience across the full software development lifecycle in a technical role.
• Relevant Master’s or higher degree.
• Experience delivering platforms and services across multiple teams.
• Experience managing multi-year projects from inception to maintenance.
• Experience with regulatory-driven projects.
• Mentoring colleagues and supporting their growth.
• Transitioning applications/products from vendors or remote teams.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets, OTC products, and systems.
• Experience using agile tooling to support delivery.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organized, proactive approach.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.