EXL

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

EXL

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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BigQueryCloudETLGoogle Cloud PlatformSQL

About the role

  • 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
SASSQLETLdata migrationdata validationdata reconciliationdata qualitycloud data platformsGCPBigQuery
Soft Skills
stakeholder managementcommunicationdetail-orientedorganizationalcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityproject managementanalytical thinkingtime management