Senior Agile Business Analyst

About the team:

At OSB Group, we're on a transformative journey to digitise the Bank and create simpler, faster and better outcomes for our customers. As a Senior Agile Business Analyst in the Core Banking value stream within our Group Transformation function, you will join a growing and supportive environment. You will report into the Product Owner and play a critical role in defining solutions that are desirable, feasible and sustainable, supporting delivery across the full product lifecycle. You will act as a key conduit between business stakeholders and our lab development teams, engineers and domain services, ensuring alignment with the Product Owner's vision, goals and prioritised backlog.

This role can be based in either the Wolverhampton or Chatham office and has the benefit of operating within our hybrid-working policy and will require travel to our London office.

What you will be doing:

As a Senior Agile Business Analyst, you'll ensure all functional and technical user stories meet Definition of Ready (DoR) standards, from feasibility and journey mapping through to clear acceptance criteria and delivery effort estimates. Working closely with stakeholders, you'll gather, challenge and analyse requirements, translating them into high-quality user stories. You'll act as a key link between product owners, development teams, engineers and domain services to ensure delivery aligns to product vision and outcomes.

Your responsibilities will include…

• Understanding complex business requirements across core banking, and working with internal and external engineers to define end-to-end processes and solution
• Conducting business impact assessments, feasibility studies and solution research, making informed recommendations to meet business objectives
• Refine user stories and break them down into smaller tasks, ensuring clarity and alignment with the overall vision for credit decisioning and mortgages in mind
• Support Product Owners to shape and prioritise the backlog
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies and identify areas for improvement to contribute to continuous improvement of the end-to-end mortgage and loans journey
• Ensure end-to-end traceability against quality standards and regulatory requirements
• Applying Lean Agile, customer-centric and design thinking principles throughout analysis and solution design

What's in it for you?

• Base salary up to £75,000
• Enhanced family-focused benefits
• Annual bonus opportunity up to 15%
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: https://www.osb.co.uk/careers/overview

Do you have the skills?

We are looking for talented individuals who have the skills set out below:

• A strong track record of working as a Senior Business Analyst or Product Owner within an Agile, ideally on large-scale change initiatives within a Bank
• Extensive practical knowledge of business and technical analysis tools, techniques and methodologies with experience of using JIRA and Confluence
• Strong understanding of core banking platforms and their role in delivering customer and business outcomes including significant technical awareness of software development processes, architectures, APIs and integrations
• Proven experience working within Mortgage and Savings domains, spanning operations, technical and business services, with hands-on involvement in application integration and orchestration layers, including defining and managing service contracts
• Strong understanding of core banking and account operations, including GL mapping, posting validation, reconciliation, settlement, end-of-day/batch processing and operational reporting, alongside familiarity with analytics, data governance, KYC/AML, Consumer Duty, GDPR and related regulatory requirements.

Next steps:
If this sounds like you, apply now! Still on the fence? Hear from our team or explore our process: OSB Careers

Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational - inclusive any individual reasonable support required. We want to bring out the best in you!

Diversity & Inclusion
We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.