Business Analysis - Engagement Leadership

Zensar; Pune District; On-site; INR 4,100,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Zensar is seeking a senior Engagement Lead to guide a major banking modernization program, owning the BIAN domain model and the functional rule base across domains.

You will orchestrate workshops with business and technology stakeholders, shape the business case, manage risk, and drive the transformation through PoC and wave milestones.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on Commercial Lending knowledge (essential).
• Experience with Murex, ACBS or LoanIQ is desirable.
• 10-12+ years BA / functional consulting experience.
• Strong client-facing leadership and workshop facilitation.
• Ability to turn ambiguity into decision-grade artefacts.
• Knowledge of secondary loan markets and capital markets.

Responsibilities

• Run the functional Discovery plan across all instruments and workstreams.
• Own the BIAN Domain Model with domain landscape and boundaries.
• Own the consolidated Functional Rule Base and traceability.
• Own the Capability Disposition (5R) and gap synthesis.
• Author the Business Case with risks and timeline.
• Lead the functional workstream through transformation and governance.

Skills

Commercial Lending knowledge

Structured Lending

BIAN service domains

Domain-driven design

5R disposition framework

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Tools

Murex

ACBS

LoanIQ

Job description

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run the functional Discovery plan across all instruments, integration and EOD workstreams; sequence SME workshops and secure the right Bank stakeholders across business, operations and technology.
• Own the BIAN Domain Model - domain landscape, bounded-context definitions and the ACBS-vs-target-rebuild-platform ownership boundary - produced with the architecture teams BIAN specialist and signed off with the Bank.
• Own the consolidated Functional Rule Base - structure, rule classification (core product / servicing / operational control / tightly-coupled legacy) and traceability - integrating input from all domain BAs.
• Own the Capability Disposition (5R) - method and definitions, consolidation of per-instrument dispositions, ACBS-fit gap synthesis, the Murex / derivatives boundary confirmation and the register of open decisions for the Bank.
• Author the Business Case - problem statement, recommended path and rationale, cost-benefit and investment profile, risks, timeline and next steps.
• Own the Business / Domain Risk Register; co-own the Wave Plan (functional sequencing) and the Go / No-Go gate criteria; set the Functional Service Specification standard and NFR / error-handling consistency across domains.
• Assemble the functional narrative into the Decision Support Package and guard cross-artefact consistency, source traceability and option-neutrality.
• Lead the functional workstream through transformation - steer the domain squads, keep the BIAN domain and ownership model current as boundaries firm up, and drive functional input to the architecture guild.
• Evolve the rule base and 5R disposition into build-ready functional specifications as each domain is confirmed; govern the Behavioural Delta Register and functional change control.
• Own functional acceptance across delivery waves and remain the senior functional interface to the Bank; refresh the business case and effort estimates as PoC and wave findings land; lead the analyst pod through build, migration and cutover.

SKILLS EXPERIENCE

• Deep, hands-on Commercial Lending business knowledge (essential); Structured Lending experience a strong plus. Working understanding of Murex; ACBS / LoanIQ product knowledge desirable; South African lending market knowledge a nice-to-have.
• 10-12+ years BA / functional consulting, including lead and team-management roles on complex banking modernisation or core-platform programmes.
• Working knowledge of BIAN service domains, domain-driven design and bounded contexts; able to hold an ACBS / servicing-layer boundary conversation; fluent in a 5R / disposition framework and COTS-vs-rebuild-vs-retain trade-offs.
• Demonstrable business-case and options-analysis authorship for large transformation investments.
• Strong client-facing leadership, workshop facilitation and executive communication; manages distributed analysts and converts ambiguity into decision-grade artefacts.
• Secondary market for commercial loans / deals and the capital-market functions around them - syndication, participations and secondary trading (required for the Engagement Lead seat).

Desirable.

Prior legacy-to-target discovery or strangler-pattern engagements; regulatory / finance-reporting awareness (accrual, fair value); prior core-lending replacement programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run the functional Discovery plan across all instruments, integration and EOD workstreams; sequence SME workshops and secure the right Bank stakeholders across business, operations and technology.
• Own the BIAN Domain Model - domain landscape, bounded-context definitions and the ACBS-vs-target-rebuild-platform ownership boundary - produced with the architecture teams BIAN specialist and signed off with the Bank.
• Own the consolidated Functional Rule Base - structure, rule classification (core product / servicing / operational control / tightly-coupled legacy) and traceability - integrating input from all domain BAs.
• Own the Capability Disposition (5R) - method and definitions, consolidation of per-instrument dispositions, ACBS-fit gap synthesis, the Murex / derivatives boundary confirmation and the register of open decisions for the Bank.
• Author the Business Case - problem statement, recommended path and rationale, cost-benefit and investment profile, risks, timeline and next steps.
• Own the Business / Domain Risk Register; co-own the Wave Plan (functional sequencing) and the Go / No-Go gate criteria; set the Functional Service Specification standard and NFR / error-handling consistency across domains.
• Assemble the functional narrative into the Decision Support Package and guard cross-artefact consistency, source traceability and option-neutrality.
• Lead the functional workstream through transformation - steer the domain squads, keep the BIAN domain and ownership model current as boundaries firm up, and drive functional input to the architecture guild.
• Evolve the rule base and 5R disposition into build-ready functional specifications as each domain is confirmed; govern the Behavioural Delta Register and functional change control.
• Own functional acceptance across delivery waves and remain the senior functional interface to the Bank; refresh the business case and effort estimates as PoC and wave findings land; lead the analyst pod through build, migration and cutover.

SKILLS EXPERIENCE

• Deep, hands-on Commercial Lending business knowledge (essential); Structured Lending experience a strong plus. Working understanding of Murex; ACBS / LoanIQ product knowledge desirable; South African lending market knowledge a nice-to-have.
• 10-12+ years BA / functional consulting, including lead and team-management roles on complex banking modernisation or core-platform programmes.
• Working knowledge of BIAN service domains, domain-driven design and bounded contexts; able to hold an ACBS / servicing-layer boundary conversation; fluent in a 5R / disposition framework and COTS-vs-rebuild-vs-retain trade-offs.
• Demonstrable business-case and options-analysis authorship for large transformation investments.
• Strong client-facing leadership, workshop facilitation and executive communication; manages distributed analysts and converts ambiguity into decision-grade artefacts.
• Secondary market for commercial loans / deals and the capital-market functions around them - syndication, participations and secondary trading (required for the Engagement Lead seat).

Desirable.

Prior legacy-to-target discovery or strangler-pattern engagements; regulatory / finance-reporting awareness (accrual, fair value); prior core-lending replacement programme.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Run the functional Discovery plan across all instruments, integration and EOD workstreams; sequence SME workshops and secure the right Bank stakeholders across business, operations and technology.
• Own the BIAN Domain Model - domain landscape, bounded-context definitions and the ACBS-vs-target-rebuild-platform ownership boundary - produced with the architecture teams BIAN specialist and signed off with the Bank.
• Own the consolidated Functional Rule Base - structure, rule classification (core product / servicing / operational control / tightly-coupled legacy) and traceability - integrating input from all domain BAs.
• Own the Capability Disposition (5R) - method and definitions, consolidation of per-instrument dispositions, ACBS-fit gap synthesis, the Murex / derivatives boundary confirmation and the register of open decisions for the Bank.
• Author the Business Case - problem statement, recommended path and rationale, cost-benefit and investment profile, risks, timeline and next steps.
• Own the Business / Domain Risk Register; co-own the Wave Plan (functional sequencing) and the Go / No-Go gate criteria; set the Functional Service Specification standard and NFR / error-handling consistency across domains.
• Assemble the functional narrative into the Decision Support Package and guard cross-artefact consistency, source traceability and option-neutrality.
• Lead the functional workstream through transformation - steer the domain squads, keep the BIAN domain and ownership model current as boundaries firm up, and drive functional input to the architecture guild.
• Evolve the rule base and 5R disposition into build-ready functional specifications as each domain is confirmed; govern the Behavioural Delta Register and functional change control.
• Own functional acceptance across delivery waves and remain the senior functional interface to the Bank; refresh the business case and effort estimates as PoC and wave findings land; lead the analyst pod through build, migration and cutover.

SKILLS EXPERIENCE

• Deep, hands-on Commercial Lending business knowledge (essential); Structured Lending experience a strong plus. Working understanding of Murex; ACBS / LoanIQ product knowledge desirable; South African lending market knowledge a nice-to-have.
• 10-12+ years BA / functional consulting, including lead and team-management roles on complex banking modernisation or core-platform programmes.
• Working knowledge of BIAN service domains, domain-driven design and bounded contexts; able to hold an ACBS / servicing-layer boundary conversation; fluent in a 5R / disposition framework and COTS-vs-rebuild-vs-retain trade-offs.
• Demonstrable business-case and options-analysis authorship for large transformation investments.
• Strong client-facing leadership, workshop facilitation and executive communication; manages distributed analysts and converts ambiguity into decision-grade artefacts.
• Secondary market for commercial loans / deals and the capital-market functions around them - syndication, participations and secondary trading (required for the Engagement Lead seat).

Desirable.

Prior legacy-to-target discovery or strangler-pattern engagements; regulatory / finance-reporting awareness (accrual, fair value); prior core-lending replacement programme.