Technical Specialist Analyst

NatWest Group; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is looking for a Technical Specialist Analyst to work in an innovative, collaborative environment. This role involves managing the solutions lifecycle from analysis to deployment while ensuring high-quality solutions through manual testing. Candidates must have a strong background in business analysis, consulting, and Agile methodologies, as well as technical skills in scripting and APIs. The position embraces a remote-first approach, offering flexibility and engagement with a dynamic technical team.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in business analysis and consulting.
• Knowledge of state-of-the-art products and technologies in digital space.
• Experience with Agile methodology and software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Work across the solutions lifecycle from requirements to deployment.
• Ensure delivery of high-quality solutions using manual testing.
• Manage backlogs with product owners and liaise with developers.
• Drive penetration testing with 3rd party vendors.
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to support business objectives.

Skills

Business analysis

Consulting

Agile methodology

Scripting

SQL

API understanding

Analytical problem solving

Communication skills

Job description

Join us as a Technical Specialist Analyst

• This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in working in an international environment, and being able to interact with various stakeholders
• You’ll have the chance to work in an organisation utilising exciting and modern technology to build innovative digital solutions
• You’ll have the opportunity to share your technical expertise in a collaborative, agile and forward-thinking team environment

What you'll do

As a Technical Specialist Analyst, you'll be working across the solutions lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design, through to coding, testing, deployment and operation, helping analyse and optimise the platform and its processes as well as resolving incidents. Working in the feature team, you'll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions.

By applying Agile methods, you'll be developing and producing solutions continually and rapidly and working through the backlog, that meet current non-functional requirements and are flexible to cope with future functional and non-functional needs.

You'll also be:

• Ensuring delivery of the highest quality solutions using manual integration testing
• Helping manage the backlog with the different product owners and liaising with developers including 3rd party providers
• Working in the platform lifecycle feature team, exploiting and developing your specialism in the context of the associated platform
• Responsible to drive penetration testing by working with 3rd party vendors and ensure any vulnerabilities are addressed
• Collaborating with principal engineers and domain architects to build an understanding of the wider platform and how it supports business objectives

The skills you'll need

To be successful in this role, you’ll need to have proven track record in business analysis and consulting along with knowledge of state-of-the-art products and technologies in the digital space.

In addition, you’ll also need knowledge and experience of key phases of the software delivery lifecycle, and established software development methodologies along with knowledge and experience of Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Operational and technical understanding of Avaloq
• Understanding of basics of scripting and SQL
• Solid background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
• Understanding and experience of working with APIs
• Understanding of how the monitoring works and how systems’ alerts are triggered
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Hours

35

Ways of Working: Remote First

Job Posting Closing Date: 13/01/2026