Business Systems Analyst – Banking, API, Microservices

JOB DESCRIPTION

Location: Hybrid | Downtown, Toronto

Duration: ASAP to 04/30/2026

Our client a leading financial institution in Downtown Toronto, is looking for a Business Systems Analyst – Banking, API, Microservices to analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work with one of the Top 5 Banks in Canada.

Typical Day in role:

  • Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
  • Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development, and security architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium-sized incoming initiatives
  • Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements, and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. to meet development and stakeholder needs
  • Lead enterprise process engineering development across infrastructure, Security, DevOps and cryptography teams
  • Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables; release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
  • Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
  • Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better

Must-Have Skills:

  • 10+ years of progressive experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a challenging IT system solution environment
  • 5+ years of hands-on experience with REST API’s and microservices
  • 5+ years’ experience working with API documents using either Swagger or OpenAPI
  • 4+ years’ experience creating BSA artifacts – user stories, sequence diagrams, flow, UML diagrams etc.
  • Recent experience from FI/banking

Nice-To-Have Skills:

  • Experience as a Delivery Lead or Scrum master (scrum master preferred)
  • Experience with system analysis on enterprise level solutions
  • Experience with estimating high level work efforts
  • 5+ years of experience in an agile environment – agile/lean evangelist
  • Client/ BNS experience is a plus

Soft Skills Required:

  • Detail Oriented. You notice all the little details for every document/requirement/conversation that comes across you, and it drives you crazy that others cannot keep everything consistent.
  • Self – Motivated. You do good work, and lots of if; the drive to deliver quality work is just a part of you. You are also able to simplify complex situations and navigate ambiguity.
  • Communicator/Negotiator. You are great at making sure everyone’s speaking the same language and are on the same page, and sometimes that involves some give and take.
  • Multi-tasker. You can multi-task and work on multiple initiatives at the same time.

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Engineering or Computer Science degree

Finance professional is committed to creating an inclusive environment where all team members and clients feel like they belong. We seek applicants with a wide range of abilities and we provide an accessible candidate experience. We advocate for you and welcome anyone regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, physical or mental disability, or age.