Senior Business Analyst

Ciklum  is looking for a  Senior Business Analyst  to join our team full-time in Canada.
We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Business Analyst, become a part of a cross-functional development team, engineering experiences of tomorrow.
Responsibilities:
A Senior Payment Business/System Analyst is one of the key roles within the Program. The aim of which is consolidation of multiple payment gateways into one target gateway platform. Strong USA Payments domain expertise and hands-on experience with TSYS card acquiring platforms is mandatory for the candidate in this role. The candidate will work closely with Business Stakeholders, Solution Architects, Data Engineers, Development, Migration and QA Teams.

Hands-on experience with payment platform migrations, the SAFe environment, and working at the Program level is highly preferable.
Elicit, analyze, and document business, functional, non-functional and transition requirements through business and technical stakeholder discussions, workshops and reverse engineering
Create and maintain BRDs, FRDs, user stories, acceptance criteria, use cases, and data process flows
Create documentation enabling the technical teams:
Solution Architecture, Development, Data and Migration teams
Work closely with Product Owners, Solution Architects, Developers, Data and Migration Engineers, QA, and business teams throughout the SDLC
Provide functional expertise across the US Payment landscape, focusing on the gateway technical processing rather than card products and e2e payments for the customer's
Provide expertise with TSYS/card processing platforms and understand processor integrations and downstream systems
Analyze change requests, perform impact analysis, and identify and manage dependencies across streams
Manage requirements at the Program level
Conduct data analysis, data mapping, and scenario planning for the migration
Support migration and UAT planning, test case reviews, defect triage, and production releases
Collaborate with QA teams to ensure requirements are completely covered through functional and integration testing
Define and document non-functional requirements in collaboration with the Solution Architects and the QA team
Work with APIs, data flows, interfaces, and system integrations to translate business requirements into technical specifications
Actively plan and drive SAFe ceremonies including backlog refinement, PI and sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demos, and retrospectives
Maintain requirements traceability from business requirements through development, testing, and migration completion
Support investigation and resolution of production issues and business queries
Work with payment networks and industry standards, including Visa, Mastercard, and relevant regulatory/compliance requirements
Requirements:
Deep and wide knowledge of the USA Payment landscape
Strong knowledge of the TSYS Acquiring platforms (such as Saratoga, Sierra, Summit); TSYS BETs and TSYS PPM
Knowledge of TSYS EIS 1080 (Authorization) and EIS 1081 (Settlement & Clearing).
Understanding of the card scheme rules, transactions (such as tipping, surcharges, split billing, DCC / FX at POS);
Terminal vendor protocols Verifone, Ingenico etc
Understanding of card authorization, clearing, settlement, chargebacks, and reconciliation

Experience with tokenization and digital wallets such as Apple Pay and Google Pay
Experience working with Visa/Mastercard mandates and compliance changes

Experience with payment fraud, risk, or regulatory initiatives
Strong experience with data mapping and migration of complex platforms
SQL knowledge for data validation and analysis
7+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Business Systems Analyst
Deep expertise in the USA Payments domain, including regulatory compliance (such as ACH, PCI, etc.)
Hands-on experience with TSYS card acquiring platforms
Technical background: SQL, API, system integrations, data flows, data analysis and mapping
Basic understanding of architecture principles

Experience with requirements elicitation and documentation, creation of BRD, FRD, user stories, acceptance criteria, process and data flows at the appropriate technical level

Experience with UAT,…