Senior IT Analyst

About the Position

Senior IT Analyst

Lead analysis for major banking card transformations, shaping requirements from discovery to launch. Join an international hybrid team in Warsaw or Gdańsk, up to 115 PLN/h B2B.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end analysis across complex card transformation initiatives, translating business objectives into clear, prioritized, and implementable business, functional, and non-functional requirements.
• Own requirements quality and traceability from initial discovery through solution design, development, testing, migration, and post-implementation validation.
• Facilitate structured workshops and decision-making with business, product, architecture, development, testing, operations, and migration stakeholders.
• Perform current-state, target-state, gap, and impact analyses across processes, systems, integrations, data, and affected card portfolios.
• Contribute to target solution design, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, regulatory obligations, and scheme requirements (e.g., Mastercard, Visa).
• Define acceptance criteria and support test planning, defect clarification, migration readiness, and validation.
• Identify dependencies, assumptions, risks, and requirement gaps early, providing clear recommendations.
• Use approved AI and generative AI tools to accelerate requirements analysis, feature refinement, documentation, and quality reviews.
• Identify and shape valuable AI-enabled improvements to analysis and delivery practices.

Requirements

• Several years of relevant experience as a Senior IT Analyst, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or in a comparable role within banking, payments, or another regulated, technology-intensive environment.
• Proven experience owning complex business, functional, and non-functional requirements across the full solution delivery lifecycle.
• Strong experience with requirements elicitation, process and system analysis, impact assessment, traceability, acceptance criteria, and solution validation.
• Experience working across large transformation programs with multiple systems, markets, vendors, and stakeholder groups.
• Hands-on experience using Jira and Confluence to manage requirements, decisions, dependencies, and delivery documentation.
• Hands-on experience using approved generative AI tools to support analysis, documentation, summarization, or insight generation is advantageous.
• Understanding of responsible AI practices in a regulated environment (data privacy, information security, transparency, human oversight).
• Ability to work effectively in SAFe or another agile delivery model.
• Professional proficiency in English and Polish, with strong written, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Knowledge of card lifecycle management, payment management, card servicing, migration, or Mastercard/Visa scheme requirements is highly advantageous.

We Offer

• Transparent cooperation conditions – you will sign a B2B agreement directly with Optiveum.
• Support throughout the entire recruitment process and during your project engagement.
• Opportunity to work for a major player in the banking sector using modern technologies and AI tools.

About the Company

Optiveum is a recruitment and consulting company created based on our 20-plus years of experience in HR & IT services.

We work for Clients located in Poland and abroad providing our local and international Candidates with Project-based or Permanent job opportunities in a remote or office-based model.

COMPANY DATA

Optiveum Sp. z o.o.

ul. Tomasza Zana 43 lok. 2.1 20-601 Lublin, Poland

nr KRS: 0000834436, NIP 7010975729

Contact us at: info (at) optiveum.com