Senior Business Analyst

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If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Business Analyst.

Business: CTO Data Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end BA delivery across Data Control initiatives: DMOV, DSTO, DQ, and retention/lifecycle controls. 
• Elicit, analyse, and document requirements; translate into epics/features/user stories with clear acceptance criteria and traceability. 
• Define requirements for ingestion, storage patterns/tiering, and distribution, including interfaces, mappings, dependencies, and NFRs. 
• Drive data retention and disposal requirements (retention schedules, legal holds, exceptions), ensuring solutions are implementable and auditable.
•  Embed governance, risk, and control requirements (classification, access, auditability, metadata/lineage) into delivery outcomes. 
• Support SIT/UAT, defect triage, release readiness, and BAU handover. 
• Manage senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, and coach junior BAs to raise analysis quality and consistency.

Requirements

• Strong BA experience delivering complex technology change (Agile and/or hybrid).
• Solid knowledge of data movement and storage concepts (batch/streaming, landing/curation layers, tiering).
• Demonstrable experience defining data retention/lifecycle requirements and translating them into delivery-ready stories and controls.
• Strong stakeholder management across Technology, Data Governance, and control/risk teams.
• Excellent facilitation and documentation skills; able to turn ambiguity into structured, testable requirements.
• Experience with cloud/hybrid data platforms, data catalogue, and lineage tooling.
• Working knowledge of privacy/security controls (masking, tokenisation, encryption, audit logging).
• Experience operating within a financial services control environment.
• SQL and/or data profiling experience to validate requirements and DQ rules.
• PMP / PRINCE2 (or equivalent) certification.
• BCBS 239 practical experience in a bank (e.g., lineage, DQ controls, ownership/stewardship, governance/audit evidence).
• Able to work with limited documentation; proactive, self-sufficient, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
• Strong English communication and collaboration skills across global teams/time zones.
• Continuous improvement mindset and curiosity to understand how platforms/systems work end-to-end. 

What additional skills will be good to have?

• Prior experience working with Architecture Engineering / Solution Architecture teams.
• 6+ years in data-focused delivery/analysis.
• 3+ years working in Agile/DevOps environments.
• Typical tools：Jira/Confluence, Visio/Lucidchart/Miro, SQL/query & profiling tools, catalogue/metadata tools. 

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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