Hybrid Business Analyst – Risk Technology, Migration (SAS to GCP)

at EXL

• Job title: Business Analyst – Risk Technology, Migration (SAS to GCP)
• Job type: Contract
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: BigQuery, Cloud, ETL, Google Cloud Platform, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Business Analyst responsible for migrating Risk technology from SAS to GCP for banking sector. Engaging with stakeholders to manage expectations and deliver successful data architecture transitions.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary liaison between the Risk function and Technology/Data Engineering teams.
• Engage with Risk SMEs to understand business objectives, regulatory expectations, data dependencies, and analytical workflows.
• Translate Risk requirements into clear functional and technical specifications for migration.
• Manage expectations, priorities, and dependencies across multiple Risk use cases.
• Assess existing SAS-based Risk solutions (datasets, ETL jobs, models, reports, controls).
• Define migration strategies for individual use cases (re-platform, re-factor, or re-build).
• Support migration of data pipelines from SAS (Base SAS, SAS DI, SAS Viya) to GCP-native services.
• Ensure data accuracy, reconciliation, and parity between SAS and GCP outputs.
• Ensure Risk data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and auditability are maintained post-migration.
• Support implementation of controls aligned with Risk governance, model risk management, and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate with Testing and Validation teams to define and execute functional, data, and UAT test cases.
• Produce clear documentation including requirements, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, and migration runbooks.
• Support regulatory and internal audit queries related to data migration and platform changes.
• Ensure adherence to bank policies on data security, privacy, and cloud usage.
• Manage multiple use cases in parallel, tracking progress, risks, and dependencies.
• Provide regular status updates to programme and Risk leadership.

Requirements

• Strong experience working with Banking Risk functions (Basel, CRD IV, Credit Risk, IFRS9, Stress Testing, or similar).
• Solid understanding of Risk data, models, and regulatory reporting expectations.
• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Hands-on experience with SAS (Base SAS, SQL in SAS, SAS DI, SAS Viya preferred).
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
• Experience with cloud data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Familiarity with GCP services such as BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Dataproc, Dataflow, and Composer.
• Understanding of data migration, ETL/ELT patterns, and data validation techniques.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Ability to work with both business and engineering teams.
• Structured, detail-oriented, and comfortable working in regulated environments.
• Experience working in large transformation or migration programmes.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Flexible working arrangements