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# Principal Business Analyst, Data In, Emerging Digital Ecosystem

- **Company:** Fmr LLC
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $89,000.0 - $180,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Integration, Data Mapping, Systems Analysis, Mobile Application Software, JSON, Swagger, Data Streaming, Systems Integration, UML, Web Platforms, Openapi, Usage Analysis, Atlassian Tools, Api Management, Microservices
- **Published:** October 25, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c8c5e22fc2e47638

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
 * 8 plus years of experience in business analysis, systems analysis, product analysis, or a related technology role
 * Demonstrated experience leading analysis for APIs, data products, digital platforms, or complex system integrations
 * Experience analyzing API contracts, endpoints, schemas, JSON payloads, validation rules, and error handling
 * Familiarity with API specifications and tools such as OpenAPI/Swagger and Bruno
 * Experience contributing to architectural and solution design reviews with architects and engineers
 * Ability to create UML sequence diagrams, context diagrams
 * Working knowledge of microservices, databases, cloud platforms, API ecosystems, and web or mobile application architecture
 * Basic familiarity with API authentication and authorization concepts
 * Strong systems thinking with the ability to bring clarity to complex business and technical challenges
 * Strong facilitation, communication, documentation, and storytelling skills across business and technical audiences
 * Experience using Jira and Confluence in an Agile product-delivery environment
 * Financial services, financial data aggregation, open banking, personal financial management, or account linking experience is preferred

## Description

Customers increasingly expect a complete view of their financial lives, including accounts held across multiple institutions. As a Principal Business Analyst, you will help build digital capabilities that aggregate third party financial data and make that information available for customer experiences, applications, APIs, and personalized insights. You will partner with product leaders, architects, engineers, data experts, and business stakeholders to translate complex customer, business, data, and technical needs into clear, actionable solutions. Candidates must be able to leverage data to inform decisions, synthesize and clearly communicate insights, and apply a customer-first mindset with ownership, curiosity, and a commitment to continuous learning to deliver impactful results.

 * Translate customer and business needs into user stories, technical requirements, acceptance criteria, and test scenarios
 * Bring customer insights and data into product and solution decisions
 * Lead business, systems, data, and API requirements analysis
 * Analyze third party data integrations, aggregation flows, account linking experiences, and API contracts.
 * Create clear visual models of complex system interactions and data flows
 * Participate in architectural and solution design reviews
 * Define requirements for data mapping and normalization across different data sources.
 * Resolve business and technical ambiguity and identify dependencies, risks, and downstream impacts
 * Provide business validation to technical teams