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The company's Insights & Data practice supports leading organizations in leveraging data to foster innovation, efficiency, and transformation. We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to lead the requirements discovery process and translate business needs into high-quality user stories for implementing and commissioning an on-premises Data Lakehouse on Cloudera CDP 7.3.1, utilizing Medallion and Lambda architectures. The role spans retail and corporate banking domains, with a focus on ensuring compliance with SAMA regulatory standards, facilitating knowledge transfer, conducting stakeholder interviews, defining testable acceptance criteria, and assisting the Test Lead during validation and UAT activities. Strong stakeholder management, communication, and analytical skills are essential for success.
Your Role
A. Discovery & Requirements
- Lead knowledge transfer sessions and stakeholder interviews across banking, risk, compliance, and operations teams.
- Gather, analyze, and document both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Prepare Business Requirement Documents (BRDs), Functional Requirement Documents (FRDs), data contracts, and source-to-target mappings.
B. Backlog & User Stories
- Translate requirements into user stories that include clear acceptance criteria and maintain traceability.
- Manage and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring control over scope changes.
- Ensure alignment with Medallion, Lambda, and data governance frameworks.
C. Banking Domain & Compliance
- Provide expertise in retail and corporate banking domains.
- Ensure compliance with SAMA regulations, data governance, and auditing requirements.
D. Stakeholder Collaboration
- Collaborate with architects, data modelers, and development teams to align business and technical needs.
- Facilitate workshops, drive decision-making, and manage stakeholder expectations.
E. Testing & Validation
- Support test planning, execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and validate acceptance.
- Perform data validation and reconciliation using SQL.
F. Agile Delivery
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and maintain Jira/Confluence artifacts.
- Communicate project status, risks, and key updates to stakeholders.
Your Skills and Experience
- Proven experience in Business Analysis within the banking/financial services sector.
- Strong understanding of retail and corporate banking processes and products (loans, cards, deposits, wealth management).
- Familiarity with SAMA regulatory and compliance expectations, along with audit readiness in KSA contexts.
- Proficiency in SQL for data validation and requirement verification (joins, aggregations, basic analytics/window functions preferred).
- Hands-on experience with Agile Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) (Scrum/Kanban), Jira/Confluence, and writing user stories with acceptance criteria.
- Excellent listening, communication, and stakeholder management skills; proven ability to liaise effectively between business and technical teams.
- Strong documentation discipline; capability to create clear BRDs/FRDs, Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTMs), and outputs from workshops.
Why You Should Consider This Role
Growing clients' businesses while building a more sustainable and inclusive future is challenging. Joining the company means becoming part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs, and industry experts. You’ll explore how technology can help reimagine possibilities and find opportunities that can transform leading businesses. By learning from each other, sharing knowledge, and pushing yourself to do better, you will build the skills necessary to help clients leverage technology for innovation and business growth. While it may not always be easy, making the world a better place rarely is.
