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Business Analyst / Functional Analyst Mainframe

eFinancialCareersLuxembourg🇱🇺LuxembourgPosted 9 Oct 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Posted
Yesterday
Continuous Improvement

Job Description

Business Analyst / Functional Analyst Mainframe
Your Day-to-Day
  • Gather, analyse and document business requirements from stakeholders.
  • Perform functional and technical impact assessments for requested changes.
  • Contribute to functional specifications and solution design documentation.
  • Support business teams throughout the definition and validation of application enhancements.
  • Investigate production incidents and identify root causes.
  • Track defects and implement sustainable corrective actions.
  • Produce incident reports and define workarounds when required.
  • Provide functional support to end users and business stakeholders.
  • Participate in the design and maintenance of COBOL applications within a Mainframe environment.
  • Coordinate and monitor developments delivered by technical teams.
  • Ensure solutions meet business requirements and quality standards.
  • Contribute to testing, validation and release activities.
  • Prepare test strategies, test cases and acceptance criteria.
  • Execute or coordinate functional and user acceptance testing.
  • Manage defects through to resolution.
  • Support production deployments and post-release activities.
  • Analyse and maintain applications running in IBM Mainframe environments.
  • Work with technologies such as COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and transaction processing systems.
  • Participate in application lifecycle activities, including maintenance, enhancements and continuous improvement initiatives.

Your Profile
  • Proven experience as a Business Analyst or Functional Analyst within a Mainframe environment.
  • Strong understanding of IBM Mainframe technologies, including COBOL, CICS, DB2, JCL and batch processing.
  • Experience working on application maintenance, production support and enhancement projects.
  • Knowledge of SQL and relational databases, including Oracle and DB2.
  • Familiarity with legacy application development and analysis tools such as PACBASE is considered a strong asset.
  • Good understanding of banking, financial services or insurance environments.
  • Experience with impact analysis, functional design and application evolution processes.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured approach to investigation.
  • Excellent documentation and communication abilities.
  • Comfortable interacting with both business and technical stakeholders.
  • Autonomous, proactive and accountable in managing priorities and delivering results.
  • Able to escalate critical issues appropriately and propose pragmatic solutions.
  • Experience in functional analysis, production support, corrective maintenance and evolutionary maintenance is highly valued.

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