Technical Business Analyst – Payments & Messaging (SWIFT)
Company: Albany Beck
Location: Edinburgh (Hybrid)
Engagement: Permanent
Client Industry: Wealth Management / Financial Services
About Albany Beck
Albany Beck is a Management Consultancy focused on delivering specialist transformation solutions to Financial Services clients. We combine deep industry expertise with modern delivery practices, enabling clients to scale effectively while offering meaningful, long‑term career development for our people. Joining Albany Beck means being part of a consultancy committed to learning, professional growth, and delivering exceptional client outcomes.
Role Overview
We are looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join our Change & Transformation Practice, with an immediate deployment opportunity onsite with one of our largest and most globally recognised Wealth Management clients, based in Edinburgh. The ideal candidate will be an experienced Technical Business Analyst with strong SWIFT and financial messaging expertise to support payments, trading, and asset servicing platforms within a Wealth Management operating model. This role offers the opportunity to become a subject matter expert across core applications, messaging standards, and integration technologies, working closely with business stakeholders, vendors, and technology teams to deliver compliant, robust, and scalable solutions. The role spans both Agile and traditional delivery models and requires strong technical analysis capability alongside confident stakeholder engagement.
Key Responsibilities
* Provide detailed technical analysis to support the stability, enhancement, and continuous improvement of the payments and messaging ecosystem
* Lead analysis for application upgrades and vendor-led changes, including impact assessment and deployment support
* Build strong understanding of core applications and industry messaging standards supporting: Payments, Client trading, Asset servicing processes
* Engage with business stakeholders to understand requirements, operational issues, and production incidents, translating these into clear technical requirements
* Lead technical, business, and testing impact assessments for platform and vendor changes
* Review and challenge solution design documentation produced by vendors and development teams
* Work within multidisciplinary teams, collaborating with developers, engineers, and testers to support: Solution design, Test case definition, Testing activities where required
* Support delivery across Agile and waterfall project environments
Key Skills and Experience Required
* Strong knowledge of financial messaging protocols, including: SWIFT MT and ISO 20022 (MX), CREST DEX, BACS
* 5+ years’ experience as a Technical Business Analyst
* Strong understanding of API-based integration, including REST and payload formats (JSON, XML)
* Ability to understand, query, and analyse relational databases using SQL and/or Python
* Degree-level education or equivalent financial services industry qualification
* Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
* Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, structured documentation
Desirable Experience
* Exposure to Avaloq or similar core wealth management platforms
* Knowledge of Postman for API analysis and testing
* Business Analysis certifications (e.g. International Diploma in Business Analysis)
* Wealth Management industry qualifications
* Experience working within vendor-led or package-based delivery models