Lead Business Analyst - Open Banking @ Mastercard in Mastercard

This role is situated within Aiia, one of Mastercard's latest acquisitions. European Open Banking is a revolutionary Fintech platform dedicated to transforming the account-to-account payments ecosystem. As a Lead Business Analyst, you will have the unique opportunity to guide, and influence product roadmaps. You will work on different initiatives impacting one or multiple teams taking ownership for successful implementation as well as satisfying the intended business results.

Join us in shaping the future of Open Banking.

Recruitment process :

🔍 Analysis of application.
👥  Interview. (1h)
📅 Decision and feedback. We always come back with feedback, regardless of the decision.

Solid Foundation - Proficient at grooming user stories, setting entrance/exit criteria and prioritizing a platform product backlog. Also understands and can explain the business context and the associated customer use cases

Domain-oriented - Demonstrates thorough understanding of our domain, its trends, how it impacts our business, and any associated risks; provides advice/point of view.

A little technical – Take the time to fully learn the functionality, architecture, dependencies, and runtime properties of the systems supporting your platform products.

Flexible - We are still “a startup” in some aspects - not all processes are perfectly defined. It should not be seen as an obstacle.

Skills - Strong communication, negotiation, influencing, facilitation, leadership, and (some) scrum mastering skills.

This role is situated within Aiia, one of Mastercard's latest acquisitions. European Open Banking is a revolutionary Fintech platform dedicated to transforming the account-to-account payments ecosystem. As a Lead Business Analyst, you will have the unique opportunity to guide, and influence product roadmaps. You will work on different initiatives impacting one or multiple teams taking ownership for successful implementation as well as satisfying the intended business results.

Join us in shaping the future of Open Banking.

Recruitment process :

🔍 Analysis of application.
👥  Interview. (1h)
📅 Decision and feedback. We always come back with feedback, regardless of the decision.

,[Decompose business requirements and customer experiences into features and functions that drive the roadmap. , Create user stories and share them with engineering teams., Identify gaps and charters new platform capabilities as required., Keep up to date with the trends in our domain and understand the future impact on our products., Contribute to the platform product portfolio and roadmap., Review initiatives, coordinate with all stakeholders, break them into features, align with Technical Leads and Architects and gather estimates., Based on the deep understanding of our domain, business needs, market opportunities, technology trends and our products vision, you assess, review and provide input regarding priorities of specific initiatives to different stakeholders., Active participation in the BA guild sessions making sure that processes are aligned across the teams, patterns are identified for cross-teams initiatives and improvements are implemented when needed., Manage the team backlog and closely collaborate with Product Owner and Technical Product Owner on priorities., Identify issues and risks that will keep the features from delivering on time and/or with the desired requirements and communicate to leadership., Ensure effective communication and transparency within the team and with stakeholders., Collaborate closely with various stakeholders across the organization to gain a comprehensive understanding of the business context. Foster relationships to gather insights into business requirements, technical solutions and challenges to deliver optimal outcomes.]

Requirements: Business Analyst, Confluence, User stories, Diagrams, Communication skills, Agile Mindset, Negotiation Skills, Leadership Skills, Banking/Payments Domain, Swagger, REST API, .NET, Azure DevOps, Jira
Tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, Agile, Scrum.
Additionally: Sport subscription, Training budget, Private healthcare, Small teams, International projects.