Technical Business Analyst

About the role

Joining Quantexa as a Technical Business Analyst means becoming part of a mission-driven team that has been reshaping the data analytics landscape since 2016, pioneering solutions that originated in FinTech to combat serious criminal activity and now extend into boundless applications. You will own the critical translation layer between complex technical architectures and the concrete needs of investigators and end users, ensuring that every solution is not only functional but truly impactful. This role requires you to work autonomously while exercising high-level judgment to make informed decisions that align with both business goals and technical constraints. You will collaborate daily with a highly diverse team of 47 nationalities, drawing on a rich mix of over 20 languages and perspectives to solve complex problems. As part of this collaborative environment, nearly half of your colleagues represent ethnic or religious minority backgrounds, reinforcing our commitment to innovation through inclusion. If you are ready to channel your analytical drive into a role that demands deep thought and delivers real-world results, this is your opportunity to contribute to something significant.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Analyze big data queries and deconstruct the end user's investigative approach to bridge the gap between technology and business objectives, designing innovative data models, scores, and UI visualisations that turn insight into action.
• Partner with diverse stakeholders to identify and analyse real-world problems, guiding client organizations through their journey toward optimal technical and business solutions across a wide spectrum of use cases and requirements.
• Work side-by-side with internal Quantexa product and engineering teams to drive the development of new features and product enhancements, ensuring that best practices are embedded into rapidly evolving offerings.
• Validate outcomes with investigator teams to ensure that solutions effectively address problems, then lead the fine-tuning and refinements necessary to achieve measurable impact and operational excellence.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for clients and development teams, facilitating the adoption and utilization of new solutions through clear communication and hands-on support.
• Translate evolving business needs into precise technical requirements, maintaining a sharp focus on system reliability, durability, and performance against feature delivery.
• Leverage your technical skills to navigate, query, review, and manipulate large datasets, using data analysis platforms to uncover patterns that inform better decision-making.
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving abilities by rapidly adapting to evolving challenges and crafting creative solutions that meet clients where they are.
• Communicate complex technical and business concepts with precision to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment and shared understanding across the project lifecycle.
• Apply solid domain experience in financial crime compliance, with a particular focus on AML/KYC, to ensure that solutions are grounded in regulatory reality and practical workflows.

Requirements

• You work independently and proactively, with a high degree of autonomy and judgment, knowing when to engage the wider Quantexa organization for support and when to drive decisions yourself.
• You bring a powerful combination of business analysis and requirements management skills to the table, ensuring that every phase of the project lifecycle is handled with precision.
• You thrive on asking insightful questions to gain a deep understanding of problems and the specific requirements of end users, refusing to accept surface-level answers.
• You are comfortable working with technical tools and data analysis platforms, possessing the technical skills to navigate, query, review, and manipulate large datasets with confidence.
• You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, adapting quickly to evolving challenges and crafting solutions that meet client needs without compromising quality.
• You showcase excellent communication skills with a track record of success in dynamic client environments, conveying complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
• You have a keen understanding of what makes a high quality, operationally stable system, knowing how to prioritize system reliability and durability against new features and functionality in project work.
• You have tackled diverse challenges within the realm of data analysis and technical problem-solving, having worked on a variety of complex, data-oriented projects that demanded rigor and creativity.
• Domain Experience: You bring solid experience in the financial crime compliance domain, particularly AML/KYC, demonstrating that you understand the nuances of this critical field.
• A valid Secret Level II government security clearance is required, either current or obtained within the past 12 months, and this is a mandatory requirement for this role.

Nice to have

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