Senior Business Systems Analyst - Banking & APIs

M&T Bank Corporation; Buffalo (NY); Hybrid; USD 41,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY seeks a Business Systems Analyst III to partner with business, product, and tech teams across the Product & Pricing Catalog ecosystem. You will guide requirements through design, testing, and production readiness, focusing on deposits, pricing, and vendor platforms while coordinating with external vendors.

The role demands independent work, multi-tasking across initiatives, and comfort with cloud modernization, data movement, APIs, and security considerations.

Qualifications

• Combined minimum of 4 years' higher education and/or operational/business analytics experience.
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, validating, and managing business and system requirements throughout a project.
• Ability to understand connected applications, data flows, files, batch processes, APIs, interfaces, and system dependencies.
• Experience with test planning, test execution, defect review, implementation readiness, and production validation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to investigate issues, spot gaps, sort through conflicting information, and recommend practical next steps.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including experience leading discussions and explaining risks and decisions to both technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Strong organization and follow-through, with the ability to manage several moderately complex efforts with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead requirements and analysis for enhancements, regulatory changes, production fixes, modernization efforts, and other moderately complex work.
• Write and maintain business requirements, functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data mappings, interface requirements, test case management, and decision records.
• Understand how work moves across APIs, microservices, batch jobs, inbound and outbound files, source systems, vendor platforms, and downstream applications.
• Lead discovery, backlog refinement, design, testing, implementation-readiness, and follow-up discussions with business and technology teams.
• Work with engineers and architects to identify dependencies, constraints, integration impacts, environment needs, security concerns, resiliency needs, and operational impacts.
• Turn business needs into clear, workable requirements and make sure the proposed solution addresses the original need.

Skills

Problem solving

Communication

Organization

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business, information systems, CS, or engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Azure

Job description

M&T Bank Corporation in Buffalo, NY seeks a Business Systems Analyst III to partner with business, product, and tech teams across the Product & Pricing Catalog ecosystem. You will guide requirements through design, testing, and production readiness, focusing on deposits, pricing, and vendor platforms while coordinating with external vendors.

The role demands independent work, multi-tasking across initiatives, and comfort with cloud modernization, data movement, APIs, and security considerations.