Digital Senior Functional Analyst- AVP

Barclays; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Barclays in Pune seeks a Digital Senior Functional Analyst (AVP) to identify business requirements and design solutions that address opportunities. You will drive digital transformation initiatives across channels, map customer journeys, define UX requirements, and mentor teams to automation-first quality engineering.

The role requires strong stakeholder management, extensive experience in Agile delivery, and collaboration with technology delivery teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• 12–16 years of experience as a Functional Analyst or related role.
• Minimum 5 years delivering digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirement management experience.
• Experience collaborating with technology delivery teams and vendors.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver high-quality software solutions using standard languages and tools.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to define requirements.
• Participate in code reviews and promote code quality.
• Stay informed on technology trends and contribute to communities.
• Adhere to secure coding practices and implement unit tests.
• Mitigate risks and strengthen governance related to work.

Skills

Functional Analysis

Digital Product Management

Technical Understanding

Agile Delivery

Experience 12-16 years

Digital Transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/Technology

MBA

CFA

CBAP

CSM/CSPO

Digital Product Management certificates

Job description

Join us as a Digital Senior Functional Analyst (AVP). At Barclays, we don’t just adapt to the future, we create it. As a Digital Senior Functional Analyst you will support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

To be a successful Digital Senior Functional Analyst you should have experience with:

• Functional Analysis: Requirements elicitation and analysis, Business process modelling, User story creation
• Digital Product Management: Digital channel enhancement, Product lifecycle management, Customer journey mapping, UX requirement definition, Workflow and process automation, Digital transformation initiatives
• Technical Understanding: API and integration concepts, Web and mobile application architecture, SQL and data analysis, Reporting and dashboards, Cloud and microservices concepts (preferred)
• Agile delivery: Backlog management, JIRA, Concluence
• 12-16 years of experience as a Functional Analyst, Business Analyst, Product Analyst, or Digital Analyst.
• Minimum 5 years of experience delivering digital transformation initiatives.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirement management experience.
• Experience working with technology delivery teams and vendors.

Additional Relevant Skills Given Below Are Highly Valued

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• MBA, CFA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, or equivalent certifications preferred.
• Digital Product Management certifications are advantageous.
• Ability to mentor engineers and drive automation-first quality engineering culture across teams.

This role is based in Pune.

Purpose of the role

To design, develop and improve software, utilising various engineering methodologies, that provides business, platform, and technology capabilities for our customers and colleagues.

Accountabilities

• Development and delivery of high-quality software solutions by using industry aligned programming languages, frameworks, and tools. Ensuring that code is scalable, maintainable, and optimized for performance.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, and other engineers to define software requirements, devise solution strategies, and ensure seamless integration and alignment with business objectives.
• Collaboration with peers, participate in code reviews, and promote a culture of code quality and knowledge sharing.
• Stay informed of industry technology trends and innovations and actively contribute to the organization’s technology communities to foster a culture of technical excellence and growth.
• Adherence to secure coding practices to mitigate vulnerabilities, protect sensitive data, and ensure secure software solutions.
• Implementation of effective unit testing practices to ensure proper code design, readability, and reliability.

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.
• 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.