Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst focused on defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities, including payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services. The role involves partnering with stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions, leading modernization initiatives, and ensuring architecture supports business priorities like client experience, resilience, and compliance. It also requires establishing architecture standards and collaborating with engineering teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services.
  2. Partner with business, operations, product, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions.
  3. Develop target-state architectures, capability models, application landscapes, integration blueprints, and transition roadmaps.
  4. Lead architecture decisions for modernization initiatives such as platform consolidation, cloud adoption, API enablement, workflow digitization, and data architecture improvements.
  5. Ensure architecture supports key business priorities including client experience, straight-through processing, resilience, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.

Skills

Required

  • 5+ years of experience in architecture, solution design, or technology leadership within banking or financial services.
  • Experience in transaction banking architecture including: Payments, Cash Management, Trade Services, and Securities Services
  • Proven experience designing enterprise-scale architecture across applications, data, integration, and technology domains.
  • Strong understanding of banking architecture patterns, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration.
  • Experience with core banking / transaction banking platforms, payment hubs, trade finance systems, securities processing platforms, and related ecosystem vendors.

Nice to have

  • Strong knowledge of data architecture, reference data, transaction lifecycle data flows, and reporting architecture.
  • Familiarity with regulatory and control considerations impacting transaction banking, including resilience, auditability, data governance, and security.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional architecture governance.

What the JD emphasized

  • transaction banking
  • architecture
  • enterprise-scale architecture
  • banking architecture patterns
  • regulatory