Lead Techno‐Functional Business Analyst in London

Deutsche Bank is a global banking business with strong roots in Germany and operations in over 70 countries. Their large but focused footprint gives an established position in Europe plus a significant presence in the Americas and Asia Pacific. There are four business divisions: the Corporate Bank, the Investment Bank, the Private Bank and the Asset Manager DWS.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future‐ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever‐evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies. We partner with Deutsche Bank to support their contingent recruitment processes.

On behalf of Deutsche Bank, we are looking for a Lead Techno‐Functional Business Analyst for a 6 month contract based in London with remote work available.

Purpose of the role: To own and drive a data centric product within a financial services environment, acting as the bridge between business needs, technical delivery, and data governance. At its core, the role exists to ensure that reference data, payments data, and related platforms evolve in a way that is strategic, well governed, technically sound, and aligned to measurable business values.

What you’ll do:

• Own and manage the product backlog, leading the refinement process and owning the value realisation and measurement for product goals through various metrics and KPIs.
• Collaborate with developers, QA, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, drive development of the solution, manage dependencies across teams and value streams, and help align teams against a common vision.
• Ongoing management and analysis of the product in the marketplace, definition and development of future releases and manage the business case for change initiatives.
• Conduct detailed data analysis to support decision making, validate requirements, troubleshoot issues, and define minimal viable products (MVP).
• Write and maintain high quality Epics, Features and User Stories with clearly defined acceptance criteria including facilitating and contributing to backlog grooming, sprint planning and other ceremonies.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including requirements, process flows, and user guides. Ensure that documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and accessible to relevant stakeholders.
• Employ data querying and analytical techniques to support the understanding of data and creation of reports and actionable intelligence.
• Guide and support a small team, providing coaching, feedback, and task coordination.

The skills you’ll need:

• Strong expertise in reference data (party, account), payments, messaging protocols (including SWIFT), and data governance.
• Solid understanding of data technologies—APIs, data flows, data models, multi‐tier systems, and integration challenges.
• Demonstrated excellence in product backlog management and experience working with cloud or hybrid platforms.
• Strong working proficiency on tools like Jira, Confluence, Big-query, programming languages (including Python, SQL), for Cloud / Big Data environment.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, master/reference data management.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently with senior stakeholders and technical teams.
• Ownership mindset with a focus on delivering high‐quality, production‐ready solutions.

Candidate Profile: Our values define the working environment we strive to create – diverse, supportive and welcoming of different views. We embrace a culture reflecting a variety of perspectives, insights and backgrounds to drive innovation. We build talented and diverse teams to drive business results and encourage our people to develop to their full potential. Talk to us about flexible work arrangements and other initiatives we offer.

We promote good working relationships and encourage high standards of conduct and work performance. We welcome applications from talented people from all cultures, countries, races, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, beliefs, and generations and are committed to providing a working environment free from harassment, discrimination and retaliation.

This client will only accept workers operating via a PAYE engagement model. AMS's payroll service is in partnership with Giant, we have worked with them for many years and have good processes in place to ensure you get the best service. If you are successful in your application for this role, your contract will be via Giant.