Functional Analyst/ Designer - Worldpay Technology Products

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Worldpay is an international leader, the biggest in the world, in payments processing technology servicing all types of businesses – big and small, online and traditional retail outlets. Worldpay works with financial institutions to develop programs and tools to simplify payment strategies. The company’s financial products include credit cards, ATM processing, merchant services, rewards and fraud prevention. Additionally, Worldpay assists financial institutions with pre-paid and gift cards, card personalization, debit PIN processing, cardholder eServices and more. Worldpay has a long-standing partnership with Endava and the partnership will continue beyond a talent pool to create a Fintech hub in Bucharest. The hub will create a wealth of skills and technical capability in one of the fastest growing cities in Romania. The Fintech hub is meant to create a new high-caliber location for Group Technology and Engineering (GTE). GTE is structured around the design, build and maintenance of innovative systems, products, and services. GTE works in partnership with customer-facing teams to innovate and build reliable and secure products and services across many industries.

Role Description Summary 

The Functional Analyst/Designer will work closely with each of the disciplines within the Delivery Team (Product Owner, Business Analysts, Architecture, Development, and Testing) to ensure solution design and implementation is in line with the business requirements. Works with developers for functional trouble-shooting and resolution of reported defects, production incidents and issues from user acceptance testing (UATs). Supporting testing on behalf of users (UAT), operations and testing teams, potentially including test plans, test cases, test data and review of interface testing between different applications.

Responsibilities / Tasks

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, tasks, and workflow analysis.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal parties to analyze information needs for functional requirements and deliver the artifacts as needed: Business Requirements Document, Functional Specification Document in form of epics and/or user stories, Use Cases, reports specifications ready to be consumed by developers.
• Maintain documentation and users stories in JIRA and or Git as appropriate.
• Understanding the Logical Data Models (or “LDM”), Physical Data Models (or “PDM”) and updated Business Data Dictionary preferable;
• Take the low-level requirements attributes and map these to the LDM/PDM.
• Understands, creates or document business, functional and data flows and provide them to the delivery team;
• Understands the system interfaces and interactions with other components of the platform; aligns his requirements with the outer systems.
• Makes sure designs are reviewed and approved by business SMEs and Functional designers of respective areas touched by the requirements;
• Work closely with Business SMEs and Technology Team/Technical Architects/Enterprise Architects/Solution Architects/Functional Design Team leads.
• Define reference data and any changes required in enterprise reference data for business requirements.
• Raise physical data model changes required to design and build changes.
• Attend Sprint Planning, Design Review, Showcase & Retrospectives – may play the role of Scrum Master.
• Ensure Acceptance Criteria achieve Product Owner or Business sign-off.

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Experience / Exposure

• Sound understanding and experience of the Agile software development lifecycle;
• Experience with different requirements tracking systems like JIRA;
• Experience of working as a functional analyst/designer with Java-based enterprise applications;
• Business knowledge of Payment systems and/or financial applications – nice to have;
• Experience of working across the whole software development & support lifecycle;
• Experience with different RDMS or DW (any of Oracle, MS SQL Server, others) and SQL language;
• Strong analytical skills, able to provide support to solve business or production problems
• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate technical and non-technical issues
• Highly collaborative, supportive and team player that demonstrates a proactive ‘can do’ attitude
• Responsive, assertive and drive a continuous improvement ethos in all interactions
• Ability to work in a fast paced environment
• Passion about sharing knowledge and best practices
• Ability to work in virtual teams and in matrixed organizations
• Fluent English (written/verbal)