Senior IT Analyst

OPTIVEUM sp. z o.o. • Capon Bridge, WV

1d • PLN 115 • Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Senior IT/Business Analyst to support complex card transformation initiatives in an international banking environment. In this role, you will be responsible for leading end-to-end analysis, translating business objectives into requirements, and ensuring the quality and traceability of these requirements throughout the solution delivery lifecycle. You will facilitate workshops, conduct various analyses (current-state, target-state, gap, impact), and contribute to target solution design, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and regulatory obligations. Additionally, you will define acceptance criteria, support testing and migration, identify risks and dependencies, and leverage AI tools to enhance 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.
• Ability to work effectively in SAFe or another agile delivery model.
• Professional proficiency in English and Polish, with strong written, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Nice To Haves

• 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).
• Knowledge of card lifecycle management, payment management, card servicing, migration, or Mastercard/Visa scheme requirements is highly advantageous.

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.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed