Sr. Business Analyst

Work You'll Do/Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the enterprise architecture roadmap for transaction banking capabilities across payments, cash management, trade finance, and securities services.
• Partner with business, operations, product, and technology stakeholders to translate strategic objectives into scalable architecture solutions.
• Develop target-state architectures, capability models, application landscapes, integration blueprints, and transition roadmaps.
• Lead architecture decisions for modernization initiatives such as platform consolidation, cloud adoption, API enablement, workflow digitization, and data architecture improvements.
• Ensure architecture supports key business priorities including client experience, straight-through processing, resilience, compliance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Provide domain guidance across payment rails, liquidity and cash management services, trade lifecycle processes, and securities servicing functions.
• Establish architecture standards, design principles, governance processes, and solution review mechanisms.
• Collaborate with solution architects and engineering teams to ensure implementation alignment with enterprise standards and target-state architecture.
• Assess legacy environments and define pragmatic migration paths to modern, modular, and interoperable platforms.
• Support risk, security, regulatory, and operational resilience requirements relevant to transaction banking ecosystems.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.
• Required: 5+ years of experience in architecture, solution design, or technology leadership within banking or financial services.
• Required: Experience in transaction banking architecture including: Payments, Cash Management, Trade Services, and Securities Services.
• Required: Strong understanding of banking architecture patterns, microservices, APIs, event-driven architecture, cloud platforms, and enterprise integration.
• Required: Experience with core banking / transaction banking platforms, payment hubs, trade finance systems, securities processing platforms, and related ecosystem vendors.
• Preferred: Master's degree.
• Preferred: Strong knowledge of data architecture, reference data, transaction lifecycle data flows, and reporting architecture.
• Preferred: Familiarity with regulatory and control considerations impacting transaction banking, including resilience, auditability, data governance, and security.
• Preferred: Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional architecture governance.