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Senior Technical Analyst - Services (API's)

Senior Technical Analyst - Services (API's)

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Hybrid working with base location of either Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Widnes, Manchester, Coventry or London

In a nutshell

As a Senior Technical Analyst, you will be responsible for decomposing high level business requirements into low level designs. These designs will then be progressed through Jira to an Engineering team to allow them to deliver an outstanding experience for our customers. You will work as part of an agile Engineering team, helping to build a high performing culture where quality matters and delivery happens at pace.

What you need to do

• We want you to lead engagement with business stakeholders and the project team members to identify and document technical / non-functional requirements while influencing the technical design working closely with Architects, Business Analysts and Engineers.
• You will provide expert guidance across a range of systems to support technical analysis and delivery activity during change assessment and requirement gathering.
• Ideally, we’d like you to leads, design and facilitate workshops to analyse, define and prioritise gaps in understanding of technical requirements, challenging thinking and agreeing outcomes to ensure robust requirements development and approved.
• You will define and manage the documentation of systems requirements (including requirements catalogues and traceability matrices) and support high, mid and low-level design as required.
• We want you to be involved in the resolution of technical analysis issues, identifying and driving mitigating actions against design risks.
• Along with other Senior Technical analysts, ensure that technical artefacts are documented and stored in a central knowledge repository during and post change implementation and is accurate, complete and available.

What you need to know and show

• You will have expert knowledge in translating business requirements into technical requirements, to a level of detail that can support technical delivery, both in the form of traditional technical requirements and user stories.
• You will have an understanding and experience of API / Service design and definition, ensuring that APIs are designed in a manner which allows them to become reusable, extensible, and future-proof enterprise assets
• Ideally you will have experience in designing API / Service schema definitions, with expert knowledge of JSON and XML data structures and definition / maintenance of enterprise canonical data structure using both.
• You must have experience of maintaining an enterprise level catalogue of APIs that promotes re-use across the organisation.
• Ideally the experience you have gained will be within a financial services context.
• You will have exemplary communication skills with the ability to engage and challenge stakeholders at all levels of the business.

Our benefits

In addition to the all-important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…

• We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance.
• Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table.
• Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos, and Habitat store discount card.
• Private Healthcare benefits
• Cycle to work scheme

A little about us & our culture

We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

It’s important that our colleagues reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our inclusive recruitment policy means we’re committed to training and developing all our colleagues, treating everyone fairly and equally when they come and work with us.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

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