Job Title Lead Business Analyst

Location Birmingham

Corporate Title Assistant Vice President

The Lead Business Analyst is responsible for collecting, evaluating, monitoring and presenting complex electronic messaging data (email and IM) to the Compliance Messaging Archiving project.

This role provides a link between the business and technical divisions and the solution providers for all aspects of identifying, implementing and maintaining solutions.

The candidate will assist in the delivery and implementation of solutions for the chosen product set, working closely with our information security group, IT policy owners, end user technologies specialists, engineers, and application architects.

What we’ll offer you

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce are better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its centre.

You can expect:

• Hybrid Working - we understand that employee expectations and preferences are changing. We have implemented a Hybrid Working Model that enables eligible employees to work remotely for a part of their working time and reach a working pattern that works for them
• Competitive salary and non-contributory pension
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to purchase additional days
• Life Assurance and Private Healthcare for you and your family
• A range of flexible benefits including Retail Discounts, a Bike4Work scheme and Gym benefits
• The opportunity to support a wide ranging CSR programme + 2 days’ volunteering leave per year

Your key responsibilities

• Developing a sound knowledge of the business goals and strategic priorities around Digital Safe and leading the engagement with the key stakeholders to understand, scope and document functional requirements, workflows and results of analysis and obtain sign-off
• Working with Functional Lead and Project Managers to plan analysis work and highlight key risks, issues and dependencies that arise from new projects
• Reviewing, guiding and ensuring high-quality analysis on data in preparation for tracking and presenting Digital Safe data. Promoting better business analysis practices and foster adoption of analysis standards and tools within the vendor model
• Provide business context to the development and testing teams, reviewing and providing specialist input to test cases and execution
• Provide support to the Programme/Project Manager in planning, managing and monitoring project full lifecycle including designing / developing specific databases for collection, tracking, and reporting and designing and providing training to operational users on relevant platform changes
• Responsible for Quality Assurance of project deliverables and ensuring that the project and programme work is compliant with documented standards, templates, and frameworks, and captured in agreed toolsets.

Your skills and experience

• Strong track record of Business Analysis within Financial Services including ideally a high-level understanding of Compliance archiving architecture
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, good stakeholder management skills and strong analysis / problem solving skills
• Experience in logical design of system solutions and modelling of business processes and system workflows
• Awareness of regulatory initiatives and experience of working within Records Management, Archiving and eDiscovery
• Data analysis, use of databases and simple data modelling (including database and prototyping tools) including understanding of Data Migration Patterns for Compliance Archiving
• Some experience in the area of E-mail and messaging systems or E-mail and messaging backup would be helpful

How we’ll support you

• Training and development to help you excel in your career
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs

About us

Deutsche Bank is the leading German bank with strong European roots and a global network. Click here to see what we do.

Deutsche Bank in the UK is proud to have been named The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 for six consecutive years. Additionally, we have been awarded a Gold Award from Stonewall and named in their Top 100 Employers 2024 for our work supporting LGBTQ+ inclusion.

We strive for a culture in which we are empowered to excel together every day. This includes acting responsibly, thinking commercially, taking initiative and working collaboratively.