Senior Technical Business Analyst (BA) & Solution / Cloud Architect

Job title: Senior Technical Business Analyst (BA) & Solution / Cloud Architect

Job location: UK/Europe

Job mode: Hybrid Travel to London, UK once a week

Job type: Contract (3 Months)

Experience: 20+ Years

Key Responsibilities:

Business Analysis (BA)

• Engage with stakeholders to gather and document business and functional requirements
• Translate requirements into BDDs, SDDs, functional specs, and architectural artifacts
• Perform impact analysis, gap analysis, and data lineage analysis
• Support Agile delivery using JIRA, Confluence, and DevOps tools
• Collaborate with QA teams on E2E test scenarios and acceptance criteria

Architecture & Design

• Define and own solution, data, and cloud architecture
• Design conceptual, logical, and physical data models
• Architect cloud-native and hybrid solutions on AWS and Azure
• Establish architecture governance frameworks and best practices
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives

Cloud & Technology Leadership

• AWS: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, IAM, Neptune
• Azure: Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Data Lake, Event Hub, AKS, Power BI
• Microservices and APIs using Java / Spring Boot
• CI/CD using GitLab, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform
• Ensure cloud security, compliance, and resilience

Data, Analytics & Governance

• Define enterprise data strategy and governance
• Architect data lakes, analytics platforms, and reporting solutions
• Support regulatory reporting (Basel III, IFRS9, CCAR, AML)
• Enable analytics using Power BI and Graph technologies

Leadership & Collaboration

• Mentor BAs, architects, and engineers
• Review designs and code for architectural integrity
• Collaborate with enterprise architecture and security teams

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience as Technical BA and Architect
• Expertise in AWS and Azure
• Enterprise data modeling and integration
• Java, Microservices, APIs
• Agile / Scrum delivery
• Banking, Financial Services, Media domain experience preferred

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering or Technology