Technical Business Analyst at Barclays

Barclays; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays is seeking a Technical Business Analyst to lead the evolution of our digital landscape and work with product owners and technical teams to realise the product roadmap.

You will analyse requirements, manage the backlog using Agile practices, and leverage Jira/Confluence to capture needs. The role is based in Knutsford and requires collaboration with stakeholders across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Bridge business requirements and technology, with critical thinking and attention to detail.
• Experience eliciting, documenting, and managing functional requirements in Agile environments.
• Understand SDLC and how to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Desirable: Banking/Payments/Digital Platform domain knowledge.
• Technical knowledge to assist with data analysis and risk awareness.

Responsibilities

• Identify and analyze business problems requiring change.
• Develop business requirements addressing problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure solutions meet needs.
• Support creation of business cases for proposed investments.
• Conduct feasibility studies for proposed solutions.
• Support progress reports to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery.
• Create operational and process designs within scope.
• Support change management and traceability activities.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Agile methodologies

Jira & Confluence

Stakeholder collaboration

SDLC knowledge

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

Date live: 03/09/2026 Business Area: Corporate Digital Banking Area of Expertise: Change Contract: Permanent Reference Code: JR-0000089325

Join us as a Technical Business Analyst at Barclays, where you'll spearhead the evolution of our digital landscape, driving innovation and excellence. The purpose of this role is to collaborate with product owners and other technical teams involved in the product development process and utilise their knowledge of the bank’s technologies to enact the vision defined in the product roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Ability to bridge the gap between business requirements and technology or infrastructure solutions, applying strong critical and analytical thinking while balancing attention to detail with a strategic, big-picture perspective.
• Skilled in requirements analysis, including eliciting, documenting, and managing functional requirements, with a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience using tools such as Jira and Confluence for requirements capture and backlog management.
• Experience delivering product and infrastructure initiatives within complex environments, with a sound understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and a proven ability to communicate, negotiate, and collaborate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders.
• Desirable: Domain Knowledge (Banking / Payments / Digital Platforms)
• Technical knowledge will be a benefit to assist with data analysis
• Risk, Control & Regulatory Awareness

This role is based in Knutsford.

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.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

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

Individual Contributor Responsibilities

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.