Senior Risk Tech System Analyst - API Design & Backlog Lead

Plata Card; United States; Remote; USD 23,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Flexible work

Healthcare Coverage

Education Budget

Wellness Budget

Vacation policy

Job summary

Plata Card in Mexico is seeking a System Analyst to join the Risk Technology team. You will participate in the full product lifecycle, gather requirements, design technical solutions, and create clear specifications with the development team.

You'll lead multiple initiatives, collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, QA, and stakeholders, and ensure backlogs are well-defined with acceptance criteria and timely delivery. Fluency in English is required for international collaboration.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a System Analyst.
• Experience leading requirements for product or technical initiatives from discovery to production.
• Experience designing APIs, data models, and integration solutions.
• Understanding of microservice architecture and synchronous/asynchronous integrations.
• Knowledge of REST and gRPC.
• Experience with Kafka.
• UML/BPMN and ability to create technical docs for developers.
• Experience with PlantUML, Jira, and Confluence.
• Basic SQL skills.
• Ability to analyze business needs and manage multiple priorities with stakeholders.
• Strong ownership and proactive communication.
• English at B1+ for international collaboration.
• Availability to overlap with Mexico working hours for at least 2 hours daily.

Responsibilities

• Lead several initiatives in parallel from requirements gathering to implementation and post-launch support.
• Collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, QA and stakeholders to clarify requirements and priorities.
• Refine the backlog and prepare acceptance criteria for development.
• Define integration specifications between internal and external providers (sync and async).
• Design technical solutions with the team: APIs, data models, processes, and service requirements.
• Create and maintain technical docs, specs, integration contracts, and diagrams.
• Monitor delivery timelines and cross-team dependencies; identify risks and blockers.
• Support developers and QA during implementation and testing and resolve production issues.
• Manage end-to-end product-development requirements to ensure release readiness.

Skills

System analysis

Requirements gathering

API design

Data modeling

REST & gRPC

Kafka

Documentation

Jira & Confluence

PlantUML

SQL basics

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Plan tUML

UML/BPMN

Kafka

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Plata Card in Mexico is seeking a System Analyst to join the Risk Technology team. You will participate in the full product lifecycle, gather requirements, design technical solutions, and create clear specifications with the development team.

You'll lead multiple initiatives, collaborate with Product, Risk, Engineering, QA, and stakeholders, and ensure backlogs are well-defined with acceptance criteria and timely delivery. Fluency in English is required for international collaboration.