IT Business Analyst_PSS @ING Hubs Romania

About the Position

IT Business Analyst / Test Coordinator @ING Hubs Romania

We are currently expanding our platform for Instant Payments and Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) Credit Transfer payments for all European ING entities. This role is part of the SEPA area and involves real-time and batch processing of high volume asynchronous, stateless communication, resilience patterns, idempotent application design, and more.

Responsibilities

• Determine the functional impact on our IT-domain based on functional and non-functional business, architecture, and IT-requirements.
• Design features in close cooperation with key stakeholders, splitting epics into features, and determining mutual interdependencies resulting in a functional roadmap.
• Support decision-making by presenting clear design alternatives and substantiating them.
• Act as the primary contact for stakeholders on key projects, aligning with business, IT, and architects across different areas and countries.
• Collaborate with different stakeholders to understand and translate business requirements into detailed functional and technical specifications.
• Focus on removing impediments and ensuring that work is directed towards maximizing consumers’ value.
• Work with architects and developers to design and choose the best technical solutions, strategy, risks, and non-functional impact.
• Combine business and IT knowledge to slice Epics into Features.
• Highlight the IT and business dependencies within an area or across areas.
• Have an end-to-end view, and identify needs and dependencies across areas or domains.
• Coach on accurate Feature definition, estimation, and creation of functional roadmaps.
• Collaborate closely with developers during the programming phase.
• Define test scope and ensure corresponding stakeholders approve the test coverage, including COPAF coverage by Test Scope and approval by Risk.
• Ensure the investigation of Failures and conducting Defect Triage.

Requirements

• Experience: 5-10 years in IT/business analysis in banking or a related business area.
• Core Skills:
  • Practical IT related knowledge (development and operation of modern APIs in a micro-service architecture, databases, operating systems, programming languages).
  • Experienced in stakeholder management.
  • Knowledge of software development cycle.
  • Strong analytical skills and logical thinking.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Customer-focused and self-organized.
  • Pro-active attitude.
  • Able to adapt to different contexts, settings, and changing working situations.
  • Integrity, communication, teamwork, ability to cope with change.
  • Languages: English (advanced).

Nice to Have

• Banking knowledge and/or end-to-end **(SEPA/International) Payments **flows experience, payments standards (MT - ISO15022 standard and MX – ISO20022 standard) and current developments in the market.
• Good project management skills to handle multiple projects simultaneously and align all the teams involved to meet projects’ deadlines.
• Education: nice to have bachelor’s degree (or higher) in an IT-related field.

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment at ING Hubs Romania.
• Be part of a team that provides borderless services with bank-wide capabilities.
• Flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?