Senior Business Analyst

The role

The Senior Business Analyst drives requirements discovery, cross-functional alignment, and solution clarity for a large-scale data transformation programme. This role involves business analysis and project management responsibilities across discovery, requirements definition, data onboarding, and testing coordination.

What you will do

• Lead discovery sessions to understand business processes, data flows, and requirements.
• Document requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Act as primary liaison between internal delivery teams, data SMEs, engineering, operations, and client teams.
• Manage workstream planning, scheduling, RAID management, and cross-team alignment.
• Coordinate activities across requirements, data onboarding, engineering, solution design, testing, and go-live readiness.
• Support testing strategy design and ensure requirements traceability through UAT and data validation.
• Conduct data analysis and gap analysis between current-state and target-state data models.
• Track progress of data readiness activities.
• Produce workstream packs, status updates, and risk/issue reports.
• Present updates to Working Groups and Steering Committees.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in business analysis and/or project management, ideally within financial services, investment data, or enterprise data platforms.
• Strong background leading multi-stream, complex, or data-heavy transformation programs within financial services, investment data, or enterprise data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with requirements gathering, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Hands-on experience with cross-functional delivery across data, engineering, operations, and testing.
• Hands-on experience with RAID, RAG reporting, dependency management, and structured governance.
• Deep practical knowledge of investment data domains (Security Master, Price Master, Issuer Master, benchmarks/index data).

Nice to have

• Exposure to cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake)
• Exposure to regulated or high-control environments.
• Familiarity with investment data, market data onboarding, or securities reference data.

About the company

Rimes provides the Intelligence Fabric for Capital Markets, a trusted data network and intelligence architecture. The company serves institutional investors, asset managers, and service providers.