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Job Title: Senior Requirements Engineer – Banking Domain
Employment Type: Contract - Long term
Experience Level: 12+ Years
Job Summary:
We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Requirements Engineer with a strong technical background and extensive experience in the banking domain. The ideal candidate will possess over 12 year of expertise in gathering, analyzing, and translating complex business requirements into scalable IT solutions, particularly within financial institutions.
You will play a key role in aligning business needs with technology solutions, ensuring full compliance with regulatory and architectural standards, and supporting end-to-end system design for mission-critical banking applications.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Analysis & Requirements Gathering
* Engage with business stakeholders, product owners, and SMEs to collect and define detailed business and functional requirements.
* Analyze and map existing banking processes (e.g., lending, payments, trade finance, KYC/AML, core banking) to identify opportunities for digital enablement.
* Translate business objectives into clearly defined user stories, use cases, workflows, and data models.
* Work closely with enterprise architects and solution designers to ensure requirements align with overall business architecture.
* Support the design of scalable, secure, and regulatory-compliant IT systems in areas such as core banking, payments, risk, or compliance.
* Ensure seamless integration with upstream/downstream banking systems and third-party platforms.
* Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation including BRDs, FSDs, process flows (BPMN/UML), and interface specifications.
* Ensure full requirement traceability across development, testing, and deployment phases.
* Serve as the key liaison between business and IT teams, translating requirements across both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Present solution concepts, gap analyses, and impact assessments clearly to senior management and project sponsors.
* Facilitate workshops, walkthroughs, and peer reviews.
Testing & Quality Assurance
* Collaborate with QA teams to ensure test scenarios fully reflect business requirements.
* Support UAT planning, execution, and defect triaging.
* Evaluate the impact of change requests and support controlled updates to requirements.
* Ensure compliance with regulatory standards (e.g., FINMA, GDPR, Basel III) and internal governance policies.
Required Qualifications:
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
* 12+ years of experience as a Requirements Engineer, Business Analyst, or similar role within the banking or financial services industry.
* Deep understanding of banking processes, financial products, and regulatory frameworks.
* Strong experience in core banking systems (e.g., Temenos, Avaloq, Finacle) or platforms related to lending, digital banking, payments, or compliance.
* Proficiency in using tools like JIRA, Confluence, Enterprise Architect, Visio, etc.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
* Domain certifications such as Certified Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) or IREB CPRE.
* Experience in Agile and Hybrid SDLC environments.
* Prior work experience with global banks or financial service clients.
* Knowledge of API integration, data modeling, and enterprise architecture principles.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Contract
Job function
* Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting and Banking
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