IT Business Analyst - Payments

About the role

ING Hubs Romania, a software development hub serving 24 ING units worldwide, is hiring an IT Business Analyst for its core banking domain. The analyst understands business requirements, works with developers to find implementation options and presents the solution to the business, while collaborating with senior engineers, architects and feature engineers to influence design decisions.

Key responsibilities

• Interpret and clarify requirements, refine the product backlog and write technical specifications and user stories
• Analyse processes with business owners and end users so the system models them correctly
• Translate complex business needs into functional specifications and handle requests end-to-end, including leading requirements and design sessions
• Consider non-functional requirements (security, performance, availability, scalability) and manage quality assurance processes
• Build, optimise and automate processes, and deliver training, documentation and technical support, mentoring less experienced colleagues
• Take part in daily agile ceremonies and collaborate with developers to adapt solutions to the existing environment
• Create automated functional tests, smoke tests, and build and run automated functional, integration, user acceptance and production tests

Required profile

• Ideally 5-10 years of experience in banking, preferably in core banking systems and payments
• Completed studies in (business) informatics, business administration or an equivalent qualification
• English; German is a plus

Required skills

• Core banking systems experience (must-have)
• API experience (CABI or AMS API)
• Payments knowledge (SEPA, SWIFT) and financial messaging protocols (ISO20022, SWIFT MT/MX) are a plus
• Automation frameworks, provider management and ITIL processes are a plus
• Microservices and self-contained systems concepts, relational databases (Oracle, SQL) and agile project experience are a plus