Senior IT Business Analyst – Payments Product Lead

BC Forward; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 63,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BCforward is seeking an IT Business Analyst III to join our Global Payments Technology group in Charlotte, NC. This contract role focuses on defining product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and aligning execution with strategic goals across business and technology teams.

The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, document high-level designs using SAFe, and ensure real-time payment processing initiatives stay on track in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Strong product management and backlog ownership within payments or treasury products.
• Experience delivering solutions with APIs, Kafka, Mainframe, and relational databases.
• Proficiency documenting high-level designs and functional requirements using SAFe constructs.
• Experience managing real-time processing implementations in fast-paced environments.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership in large organizations.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the business and technical product vision for Enterprise Payments.
• Define the payments product roadmap and manage the product backlog across tech debt, regulatory items, business enablement, and audit support.
• Advocate modern Agile solution delivery and end-to-end design and engineering practices.
• Collaborate with senior business managers, stakeholders, and global functional heads to establish and adopt evolving product development standards and processes.
• Lead cross-functional teams of technologists and business analysts focused on deliverable decomposition and design review.
• Document high-level designs and functional requirements using SAFe hierarchies including deliverables, epics, and stories.
• Ensure delivery execution aligns with product strategy from inception through clearing.

Skills

Product management

Backlog ownership

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

APIs

Kafka

Mainframe

Relational databases

SAFe

Tools

SAFe

Job description

BCforward is seeking an IT Business Analyst III to join our Global Payments Technology group in Charlotte, NC. This contract role focuses on defining product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and aligning execution with strategic goals across business and technology teams.

The candidate will lead cross-functional teams, document high-level designs using SAFe, and ensure real-time payment processing initiatives stay on track in a fast-paced environment.