Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empower is a company focused on transforming financial lives through a flexible work environment and internal mobility. The Senior Technical Business Analyst - API & Data Integration will collaborate with various stakeholders to define scalable API solutions and enhance data integration capabilities in a cloud-native environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead discovery sessions to understand business objectives and translate them into scalable technical solutions
- Partner with engineering teams to define and deliver API-first capabilities, system integrations, and distributed solutions
- Analyze REST APIs, OpenAPI specifications, JSON payloads, integration patterns, data flows, and system behavior
- Perform advanced SQL analysis to validate requirements, investigate issues, troubleshoot complex datasets, and support solution design
- Develop detailed source-to-target data mappings and document data lineage across multiple systems
- Model business capabilities, business processes, and integration workflows
- Create detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, decision tables, functional specifications, and technical documentation
- Maintain end-to-end requirements traceability from business objectives through implementation and testing
- Collaborate with QA Engineers to ensure solutions are testable and meet business expectations
- Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
- Support production investigations by analyzing APIs, data flows, datasets, and system behavior
- Recommend improvements that simplify processes, improve customer outcomes, and increase delivery quality
- Use AI-assisted tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or similar tools to improve analysis, documentation, and productivity while validating outputs for accuracy and maintaining quality
- Build trusted relationships across business and technology organizations and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Anticipate downstream impacts before development begins and write requirements that minimize ambiguity and rework
- Use data to support decisions and continuously identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve delivery
- Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to business and technical audiences
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of Business Analysis experience supporting Agile software engineering teams
- Strong experience defining requirements for REST APIs, integrations, and distributed systems
- Deep understanding of REST, JSON, HTTP methods, and API design principles
- Experience reading and interpreting OpenAPI specifications
- Advanced SQL skills with the ability to query, validate, analyze, and troubleshoot complex datasets
- Extensive experience with data analysis, source-to-target data mapping, data lineage, and integration analysis
- Experience with API-first delivery, cloud-native applications, and AWS environments
- Understanding of microservices and event-driven architectures
- Experience writing detailed user stories, acceptance criteria, and technical documentation
- Excellent written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills
- Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Experience using AI tools responsibly to improve productivity while maintaining quality
- The ability to work effectively at the intersection of business analysis, systems analysis, data, and technology
- Experience in Personal Wealth, Wealth Management, Brokerage, Retirement Services, Banking, or Financial Services
- Experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and API security
- Experience using Hoppscotch or similar API testing tools
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- Familiarity with Datadog, Amazon CloudWatch, or similar observability platforms
- Experience supporting enterprise API platforms and large-scale integration initiatives
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings – 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire – including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time — 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs – including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) – BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all
- Other necessary computer equipment, will be provided
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