Arbor Education, founded in 2011 and based in London, England, United Kingdom, is the country's fastest-growing management information system provider, serving
Technical Business Analyst – Payments
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
£48K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Business Analyst – Payments
Arbor Education
• Collaborate with the Payments Senior Product Manager to shape, challenge and deliver a strategic product roadmap aligned with company goals • Define problems and hypotheses based on customer needs and feedback, ensuring alignment with the product strategy. • Work with Engineering and Product Design to identify assumptions, risks and validate feasibility of potential solutions • Support the Payments Senior Product Manager in planning and coordinating the delivery of product development, through iterative sprint cycles and regular team ceremonies • Decompose high-level product initiatives into detailed user stories, functional specifications and acceptance criteria • Define detailed business rules, data validations, and error-handling scenarios to ensure robust technical solutions • Document current and future-state workflows using data flow diagrams, sequence diagrams, and system schemas to guide the engineering team • Collaborate with security and compliance stakeholders to ensure product requirements meet data protection regulations and payment security frameworks (e.g. PCI compliance) • Proactively identify, track and manage technical cross-team dependencies that could impact the product roadmap • Use data-driven iteration and testing to measure impact and inform adjustments. • Act as the primary technical point of contact for the 2nd Line Support team, reviewing and triaging escalated bugs, system behaviour queries and high-priority customer issues. • Partner with the Payments Senior Product Manager to prioritise support work, ensuring the resolution of bugs, maintenance and technical debt is balanced against strategic roadmap delivery. • Champion a user-centric approach using feedback, metrics, and research to inform product decisions. • Proactively communicate with stakeholders on milestones, progress, and adjustments to your plans. • Foster collaboration, communication, and a culture of shared learning within the team and across departments.
Job Requirements
- Proven experience working in a technical business analysis role, with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and customer success.
- Experience working on complex technical requirements across multiple domains
- Comfortable working with remote teams.
- Passion for building user-centric products that make a difference.
- Ability to effectively leverage data and metrics to make informed decisions
- Exemplary communication skills; ability to persuade and provide compelling rationale for decisions
- Proven experience working on payments products
- Experience in the Payments, Finance or EdTech sector is desirable
- Someone who thrives in a fast paced, AI-native environment with multiple internal stakeholders and high levels of collaboration.
Benefits
- A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
- 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
- Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
- Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
- Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
- Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
- Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
- 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
- Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
- All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
- Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
- Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
- Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
- Dog friendly offices!
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