Principal Consultant

Responsibilities: · Lead analysis of business, regulatory, data and system requirements across programme workstreams. · Document functional specifications, use cases, source-to-target mappings, process/data flows and traceability. · Analyse source systems, interfaces, reports, controls, dependencies, volumes and non-functional requirements. · Support solution design for historical data, payments, derived measures, UIMs/APIs, BI and analytical repositories. · Define data-quality, reconciliation, exception, lineage, monitoring and audit-evidence requirements. · Assess impacts, feasibility, estimates, risks and implementation options with architects and engineers. · Define test scenarios and acceptance criteria and govern requirements through SIT, UAT and regression testing. · Coordinate clarification, defect triage, stakeholder validation, change control and sign-off. Requirements: · At least10 years of system/business analysis and solution-design experience for complex banking data programmes. · Strong ownership, analytical thinking and disciplined delivery in a regulated environment. · Clear communication and effective collaboration across business, architecture, engineering, testing and operations teams. Key Domain/ Technical Skills: FUNCTIONAL / DOMAIN · Banking operations, risk/compliance, AML, payments, finance, Basel and regulatory reporting. · Finance data platforms, RWA, LCR/NSFR, reconciliation, treasury and wholesale-banking data. TECHNICAL · System analysis, functional/technical specifications, process/data modelling, mapping and traceability. · SQL and working knowledge of Teradata, Hadoop/Cloudera, Qlik, Power BI, APIs and metadata tools. · Estimation, test governance, defect analysis, Jira/Confluence and enterprise SDLC controls.