IT Business Analyst (Core Banking)

Location: Bucharest, Romania — Dacia One

Company

hirify.global Romania provides software development, data management, risk and compliance, audit, and retail operations services to 24 ING units worldwide, operating from Bucharest with more than 2,000 professionals.

What you will do

• Analyze business requirements and translate complex banking needs into functional specifications and implementation options.
• Conduct requirements, design, and decision-making workshops; refine requirements and present solutions to business stakeholders.
• Design messaging solutions, REST APIs, and reference schemas for events and messages used by the global core banking interface.
• Align solutions across product owners, system owners, developers, architects, consumers, and end users, managing requests end to end.
• Document APIs and messaging solutions, including usage guidelines and best practices, and provide training and technical support.
• Ensure product quality through security, performance, availability, and scalability considerations, QA management, automated functional, integration, user acceptance, production, and smoke tests.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in the banking industry.
• Good knowledge of banking business processes and products.
• Knowledge of REST APIs and messaging solutions such as MQ, Kafka, or Apache Pulsar.
• Experience with API documentation and design best practices, including tools such as Swagger.
• Strong analytical, methodical, problem-solving, decision-making, and conceptual-thinking skills.
• Ability to manage a global product in an international context with multiple consumers and align requirements across stakeholders and customers.
• Knowledge of security, audit, and IT architecture best practices.
• Fluent English is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with core banking technologies.
• Basic knowledge of release management.
• Experience with Azure DevOps or GitLab.
• Knowledge of IT landscapes and software development lifecycles; agile methodology experience is advantageous.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible way of working in a highly collaborative environment with fair and constructive feedback.
• Work with global core banking services supporting multiple European countries and consumers.
• Participate in daily agile ceremonies with in-house and external developers.
• Collaborate across banking, architecture, engineering, product, and business teams.