Senior App Specialist: Banking Tech & Flexible Perks

Kiwibank; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff banking discounts

Wellbeing days of leave

Job summary

Kiwibank in Auckland seeks a Senior Application Specialist (Technical Analyst) to support staff digital experiences, shaping systems for customer accounts, transactions and core banking capabilities. You will translate business needs into actionable user stories and specifications, collaborating with product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders in an agile environment.

With 5+ years as a Technical Analyst, you’ll lead discovery, define acceptance criteria, and guide squads

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience as a Technical Analyst working within agile delivery squads.
• Proven experience in banking or financial services, ideally across core systems or account based platforms.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements discovery and analysis, translating business needs into clear, actionable user stories and specifications.
• Work with stakeholders to gather, analyze, and validate requirements and dependencies.
• Translate requirements into story maps and well defined acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate workshops to validate requirements and drive shared understanding across teams.
• Provide ongoing guidance to delivery squads during implementation and support continuous improvement.

Skills

Requirements discovery

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Agile delivery

Banking domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Story mapping

Job description

Kiwibank in Auckland seeks a Senior Application Specialist (Technical Analyst) to support staff digital experiences, shaping systems for customer accounts, transactions and core banking capabilities. You will translate business needs into actionable user stories and specifications, collaborating with product, engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders in an agile environment.

With 5+ years as a Technical Analyst, you’ll lead discovery, define acceptance criteria, and guide squads