Technical Business Analyst - Edinburgh 🏆

Technical Business Analyst - Edinburgh 💰 Salary: £50,000 - 80,000 per year

At Pontoon we are looking for a Business engineer!

🛠️ Our tech stack

AI, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Confluence, Support, ITIL, JIRA, REST, Web, Business

📝 Rquirements

• Degree in Business, IT, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Strong understanding of SDLC, testing phases, and release/go-live processes
• Experience in transition, separation, or service readiness environments
• Familiarity with Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies
• Proficiency in tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, or similar
• Understanding of web technologies, domain changes (DNS), and application environments
• Strong analytical and documentation skills
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience as a Technical Business Analyst within a technical delivery environment
• Proven experience supporting testing, go-live, and operational handover activities
• Experience working on transition, separation, or large-scale transformation programmes
• Exposure to financial services or regulated environments is highly desirable
• Experience with web implementations and/or domain migration projects
• Strong track record of working across both technical teams and business stakeholders
• Experience with service transition frameworks (e.g., ITIL) (desirable)
• Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) (desirable)
• Understanding of regulatory or compliance considerations in financial services (desirable)
• Relevant certifications (e.g., BCS, CBAP, Agile) (desirable)
• Detail-oriented with a strong focus on governance and quality
• Confident in identifying gaps and ensuring readiness ahead of go-live
• Strong organisational and coordination skills
• Calm under pressure during critical delivery phases
• Collaborative and delivery-focused

👩‍💻👨‍💻 Your responsibilities are

• Support delivery across the application workstream within a large-scale financial services separation programme
• Drive operational readiness and governance for solutions approaching go-live
• Define and manage readiness criteria, governance checkpoints, and sign-off processes
• Work closely with QA, development, infrastructure, and business teams during SIT and UAT phases
• Validate that business and technical requirements have been fully met
• Support release planning, cutover, and go-live activities
• Ensure all documentation is complete and fit for purpose (process maps, runbooks, support models, knowledge transfer materials)
• Identify and manage risks, issues, and dependencies across transition activities
• Facilitate stakeholder engagement across multiple internal and external teams
• Support transition into business-as-usual (BAU) operations
• Maintain traceability of requirements through to implementation

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Category: Business Developer / Engineer

Location address: Waterloo Place, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Salary: £50,000 - 80,000 per year

Benefits & perks that we offer

Pontoon - More about us and the role

We are a leading UK financial services organization based in Edinburgh, where we support a large-scale Day 2 separation programme. This fixed-term contract position will be crucial in ensuring the successful transition and delivery of key initiatives including domain name changes and web-based implementations. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility, with two days a week onsite.

We are committed to creating a collaborative team environment and provide opportunities for personal growth and training.

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