Join us as a Lead Business Analyst at Barclays, where you will play a critical leadership role in shaping and delivering large‑scale transformation across US payments and corporate banking platforms. In this role, you will operate at the intersection of business strategy, regulatory compliance, and technology delivery, ensuring complex initiatives are translated into clear, executable, and value‑driven outcomes.
You will lead front‑to‑back business analysis across highly regulated US environments, embedding new ways of working and supporting product‑led delivery models. Acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, you will provide clarity through ambiguity, align diverse priorities, and ensure regulatory, operational, and customer outcomes are met with precision and pace.
To be successful as a Lead Business Analyst, you should have experience with:
Driving US payments and regulatory initiatives end‑to‑end, with hands‑on experience across payment schemes and infrastructures such as ACH, Wires, SWIFT, RTP, FedNow, ISO 20022 or adjacent clearing and settlement platforms, ensuring solutions meet both business objectives and regulatory expectations.
Operating within New Ways of Working (Agile / Product‑centric models), including ownership of complex backlogs, shaping hypotheses and outcomes, leading refinement and prioritisation discussions, and enabling iterative delivery across multi‑disciplinary teams.
Front‑to‑back business analysis leadership, encompassing current‑state assessment, future‑state design, operating model impacts, control considerations, and alignment to enterprise and regulatory architecture.
Senior stakeholder engagement and influence, including working with US business heads, technology leads, risk and compliance partners, and operations leadership to drive decisions, manage trade‑offs, and maintain momentum on complex initiatives.
Translating strategy into execution, ensuring regulatory change, payments modernisation, or platform enhancements are broken down into consumable, traceable and value‑focused deliveries for engineering and delivery teams.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
Strong understanding of US regulatory and risk frameworks, including interaction with control functions and embedding regulatory requirements into business and technology change.
Proven experience acting as a lead or practice senior Business Analyst, setting standards, coaching analysts, and ensuring consistency and quality of analysis across programmes.
Depth in payments domain processes, including client journeys, exception handling, reconciliation, settlement, and operational resilience considerations.
Advanced capability in data‑driven analysis, using metrics, insights, and evidence to shape solution options, regulatory responses, and investment decisions.
Experience working closely with engineering and architecture teams, ensuring business intent is clearly represented in functional and non‑functional requirements without over‑specification.
You may be assessed on key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.
The role is based out of Chennai.
Purpose of the role
To support the organisation, achieve its strategic objectives by the identification of business requirements and solutions that address business problems and opportunities.
Accountabilities
- Identification and analysis of business problems and client requirements that require change within the organisation.
- Development of business requirements that will address business problems and opportunities.
- Collaboration with stakeholders to ensure that proposed solutions meet their needs and expectations.
- Support the creation of business cases that justify investment in proposed solutions.
- Conduct feasibility studies to determine the viability of proposed solutions.
- Support the creation of reports on project progress to ensure proposed solutions are delivered on time and within budget.
- Creation of operational design and process design to ensure that proposed solutions are delivered within the agreed scope.
- Support to change management activities, including development of a traceability matrix to ensure proposed solutions are successfully implemented and embedded in the organisation.
Vice President Expectations
- To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and escalate breaches of policies/procedures..
- If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements..
- If the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others..
- OR for an individual contributor, they will be a subject matter expert within own discipline and will guide technical direction. They will lead collaborative, multi-year assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will train, guide and coach less experienced specialists and provide information affecting long term profits, organisational risks and strategic decisions..
- Advise key stakeholders, including functional leadership teams and senior management on functional and cross functional areas of impact and alignment.
- Manage and mitigate risks through assessment, in support of the control and governance agenda.
- Demonstrate leadership and accountability for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work your team does.
- Demonstrate comprehensive understanding of the organisation functions to contribute to achieving the goals of the business.
- Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategies.
- Create solutions based on sophisticated analytical thought comparing and selecting complex alternatives. In-depth analysis with interpretative thinking will be required to define problems and develop innovative solutions.
- Adopt and include the outcomes of extensive research in problem solving processes.
- Seek out, build and maintain trusting relationships and partnerships with internal and external stakeholders in order to accomplish key business objectives, using influencing and negotiating skills to achieve outcomes.
All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.
