Business Analyst

Join Barclays as a Business Analyst (Credit Cards & Banking)

Operating within a hybrid delivery model, you’ll work across both Agile and traditional methodologies while collaborating closely with third‑party suppliers.

In this role, you’ll partner with Value Streams to enable successful product delivery, while contributing to the delivery and ongoing maintenance of critical technical capabilities such as platform upgrades and enhancements across our core banking platforms. Your work will help ensure the resilience, performance, and continuous evolution of systems at the heart of Barclays’ operations.

To be successful as a Business Analyst (Credit Cards & Banking), you should have experience with:

• Significant Business or Technical Analyst experience delivering change across complex, integrated banking systems, with strong credit card, banking product, and Visa & Mastercard scheme knowledge.
• Proven ability to define and document business and system requirements, including BRDs/FRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, across both Agile and traditional delivery approaches.
• Experience delivering technical and platform change (e.g., system upgrades and enhancements) across the full delivery lifecycle, with the ability to produce system documentation and support production of detailed solution design (working closely with business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and third‑party suppliers).

• Ability to work effectively across teams, including business and technology stakeholders, as well as third‑party suppliers.
• Experience coaching or mentoring analysts, and contributing to the continuous improvement of BA practices, standards, and processes.
• Experience working within a regulated financial services environment, with an understanding of risk, control, and compliance.

This role will be based in Edinburgh.

To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.

• 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.

• To 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. 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, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.
• OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects,…