Product Analyst

Role Summary

The Technical Product Analyst translates product intent into implementable engineering work. This person decomposes user stories into concrete system behaviors, maps integrations and data flows, and defines technical acceptance criteria — preventing under-scoped or non-implementable stories from reaching development and reducing downstream rework.

Core Responsibilities

• Decompose user stories into system behaviors.

• Identify system impacts, integrations, and data flows.

• Define technical acceptance criteria.

• Support story splitting when complexity is high.

• Lead technical spikes and feasibility analysis.

Illustrative Contribution (single story)

For a given payments story, the analyst validates the technical realities before it is committed — for example:

• Which systems own beneficiary data.

• Whether validation is real-time or batch.

• API latency and error-handling behavior.

• Security and entitlement enforcement.

Value to the Product Team

• Prevents under-scoped or non-implementable stories from entering a sprint.

• Reduces rework during development.

Preferred Experience

Priority is given to candidates who have demonstrated experience working closely with engineering,

architecture, operations, and QA teams in an agile product delivery environment. Hands-on experience in the following areas is particularly valuable:

Payments Platforms & Domain

• Payment processing platforms such as Finastra, FIS, or Volante.

• APIs, wire transfers, and real-time payments (RTP).

• Deep technical and analyst experience within the B2B payments domain, including Wire / RTP.

Fraud, Compliance & Risk

• Fraud detection — Actimize / Xceed.

• OFAC screening — Fircosoft.

• AML / BSA regulatory frameworks.

• Regulatory and risk considerations embedded in product design.

Non-Functional & Engineering Practices

• Resiliency and observability.

• Performance and load-testing collaboration with SQA.

• Agile delivery, DoR / DoD discipline, and sprint planning.