Technical Analyst

About Aqovia:

At the Intersection of Innovation and Impact, introducing Aqovia. Aqovia is an international technology firm dedicated to creating tangible value through the power of AI, data-driven, and bespoke software solutions and services.

Our unique approach extends beyond traditional service and solutions delivery, we strategically invest in and nurture a diverse portfolio of promising companies operating across vital sectors including: financial services, health, infrastructure management, sustainability, education, and business intelligence.

This commitment to fostering innovation across a broad spectrum allows Aqovia to stay at the cutting edge, delivering transformative solutions and creating significant impact. For our clients and strategic partners,

Job Description:

Aqovia is looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join our software engineering department. You will work in fast-paced development teams for our own products and/or client projects. As a Technical Analyst you will be working on our consulting projects, primarily designing RESTful API services.

Key responsibilities:

• Capture and curate business requirements and system documentation in JIRA/Confluence, including user stories, API design and API enhancements.
• Write estimate-able user stories for developers in JIRA, including clear and testable acceptance criteria.
• Design RESTful web APIs for new and existing products in an API-first context, aligned with technical architecture guidance.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and business stakeholders to:
• Design RESTful web APIs
• Design data models
• Design event-driven processes in distributed/microservices architectures
• Specify contracts for messaging and web services, primarily using JSON Schema and OpenAPI Specification (Swagger).
• Validate and verify APIs by creating requests and asserting responses in Postman.
• Document processes and data models using BPMN.
• Define acceptance test scenarios using DSLs such as Gherkin and generate test datasets.
• Support Delivery Managers, Product Owners, and QA teams during acceptance testing.
• Participate in agile ceremonies as an integrated member of the team.
• Write customer-facing documentation.
• Coach/mentor junior analysts.
• Support data engineers responsible for onboarding customers and data into the platform.

Minimum qualification, skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of REST and its application to web APIs, proficient with tools such as Postman and Insomnia.
• Knowledge of HTTP headers, authentication, authorisation, and response codes.
• Commitment to agile and lean development principles.
• Commercial experience as a technical business analyst across multiple customers/projects.
• Excellent business, interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills: able to translate business needs for technical teams and simplify complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience writing user stories for agile development teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Experience documenting processes using BPMN and UML.
• Understanding of event-driven workflows.
• Comfortable working with source control tools (e.g., Git) to manage API specifications.
• Proficient at testing web APIs, including crafting authentication tokens.
• Proficient in SQL.

Highly valuable experience in one or more of the following:

• Strong background across FinTech APIs, BaaS platforms, embedded finance, and Open Banking (consent models, data access, secure API design).
• Familiarity with financial messaging standards (ISO 20022, OpenAPI specs,