Senior Business Analyst - Backend Focus

Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Business Analyst – Backend Focus  to join our team full-time in Romania.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role :

As a Senior Business Analyst – Backend Focus, become a part of a cross-functional development team engineering experiences of tomorrow.

As a Business Analyst, you will be part of a backend-focused agile team, you will play a pivotal role in defining and communicating technical requirements that guide the development and evolution of our APIs, services, data flows, and systems integrations. You will collaborate with product owners, developers, architects, and other stakeholders to capture complex backend requirements that support robust digital platforms and services.

Responsibilities

• Act as a bridge between technical stakeholders and business users, translating business needs into scalable backend solutions
• Apply systems thinking to help stakeholders understand backend system behaviors and integration points
• Identify upstream / downstream service dependencies, assessing the wider impact of backend changes across the platform ecosystem
• Collaborate across teams to assess the impact of API changes on other systems and services
• Work with architects to understand runway and schemas, Business Object Model (BOM), and assist in documentation and sequencing
• Analyze and interpret API documentation, endpoint definitions, and JSON structures to ensure accurate and consistent communication of functional needs
• Define both functional and non-functional requirements, ensuring completeness and clarity for the delivery team
• Define data mappings and service interactions between internal and external systems, ensuring alignment with clients architectural standards
• Validate requirements related to authentication, security standards, and API consumption patterns in collaboration with technical teams
• Define clear, testable, and traceable technical requirements that enable accurate implementation and QA processes
• Use tools such as Postman, Swagger UI, GraphQL playgrounds, or similar to inspect and test APIs as part of the BA process
• Translate business and stakeholder needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria that align with the Definition of Ready (DoR)
• Lead refinement ceremonies and actively contribute to other agile ceremonies, working closely with Product Owners and developers, ensuring stories are ready-for-development
• Promote iterative delivery, MVP thinking, and continuous feedback loops to ensure value-driven development
• Collaborate effectively with both the technology and product teams, demonstrating strong teamwork and communication

Requirements

Technical Competencies

Core Competencies

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