API Business Analyst - AVP

We are seeking an API Business Analyst - AVP to join our team at Barclays in Bengaluru.

The purpose of this role is to support the organisation in achieving its strategic objectives by identifying business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

Accountabilities

• Identify and analyse business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
• Develop business requirements that address business problems and opportunities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
• Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
• Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
• Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
• Create operational design and process design to ensure proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
• Support change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

• Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development, and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
• Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well-developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver work that impacts the whole business function.
• Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraise performance relative to objectives, and determine reward outcomes.
• Demonstrate leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard.

Requirements

• Experience analysing banking products and processes, including retail and digital banking, payments and cards processing, lending, savings and current accounts, and customer onboarding and KYC.
• Ensure solutions comply with banking regulations, risk controls, security requirements, and internal governance standards.
• Work closely with software engineers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, prioritize and manage product backlogs, and support development teams with requirement clarifications and business context.
• Perform data analysis and validation using SQL and reporting tools.
• Define data requirements and support data migration initiatives.
• Assist in creating business reports, dashboards, and KPIs.

Highly Valued Skills

• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, Scrum, and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of software engineering concepts and system architecture.
• SQL and data analysis.
• API and integration understanding (REST, JSON, XML).
• Process mapping, gap analysis, stakeholder management.
• Experience with Agile tools such as Jira, AWS, DevOps, or Confluence.
• Payments and card processing, KYC/AML compliance, core banking systems, financial products and services, risk and regulatory requirements.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.