Senior Business Analyst – AVP

Barclays•Jefferson, CO

18h•Onsite

About The Position

The purpose of this role is to support the organization in achieving its strategic objectives by identifying business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities. As a Senior Business Analyst – AVP at Barclays, you will embark on a transformative journey to redefine the future of banking and craft innovative solutions. You will help the organization achieve its strategic objectives by identifying business needs and shaping solutions that address core challenges while unlocking new opportunities aligned to Barclays’ US Corporate expansion goals. This role involves close collaboration with stakeholders across the business and multiple functional teams to analyze complex processes and design improvements that drive efficiency, innovation, and long‑term value.

Requirements

User Story Creation & Requirements Clarity: Proven ability to create clear, concise, value‑focused user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring customer needs are accurately represented across multiple delivery teams
Stakeholder Management & Cross‑Team Communication: Ample capability to collaborate with business, technology, and product stakeholders, representing the customer voice and ensuring alignment across programme‑level ceremonies
Analytical Thinking & Problem‑Solving: Ability to interpret data, identify root causes, and support informed decision‑making across journeys, platforms, and teams in a complex delivery environment

Nice To Haves

Roadmap Management & Alignment: Experience supporting roadmap creation, refinement, and alignment across multiple teams to ensure cohesive delivery of business outcomes
Dependency Management Across Teams: Familiarity with identifying, sequencing, and coordinating dependencies across journeys, leveraging programme planning practices such as time‑cone planning and cross‑team alignment
Prioritization Techniques in Multi‑Team Delivery: Ability to apply structured prioritization approaches to support backlog refinement and ensure high‑value items flow effectively into programme planning and execution
Experience with Agile either via certification or direct experience operating as Scrum Master highly preferred
Possession of Corporate Product knowledge and/or experience delivering change in a banking environment

Responsibilities

Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness.
Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.
Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function (if the position has leadership responsibilities).
Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomes (if the position has leadership responsibilities).
Lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments (for an individual contributor).
Identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes (for an individual contributor).
Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.
Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.
Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.
Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.
Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.
Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.
Communicate complex information.
Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.