Requirements Center of Excellence Lead (Hybrid – Columbia, SC)
We are seeking a seasoned Requirements Lead to establish a Requirements Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive the standardization, governance, and quality assurance of requirements across business and technology initiatives. The lead is not responsible for the line management of Business Analysts. Still, it acts as the central authority on how requirements are defined, documented, validated, and maintained across projects and programs. The Lead ensures consistent practices, enforces quality gates, and supports regulatory compliance, ultimately enabling the successful delivery of customer-focused and compliant banking solutions.
What you’ll do
– Define and maintain bank-wide standards and frameworks for business and technical requirements.
– Develop templates, best practices, and guidance tailored to financial services regulations and risk management.
– Establish and manage quality gates for requirements, ensuring readiness for design, testing, and compliance review stages.
– Ensure requirements are structured to facilitate test case derivation, automated test coverage, and defect traceability.
– Ensure that requirements artifacts are structured to support internal audits and external examinations.
– Validate that all requirements are clear, testable, traceable, and aligned with regulatory and business objectives.
– Support teams in maintaining audit-ready documentation in line with internal policies and external regulatory expectations (e.g., FFIEC, Basel III).
– Partner with decentralized Business Analysts, Product Owners, Testing CoE, Ris k, Legal, Compliance, PMO, and Technology teams to ensure proper application of standards.
– Establish feedback loops with Testing CoE to refine requirement standards based on defect trends and test execution outcomes.
– Ensure requirements processes, artifacts, and training enable business analysts to act as liaisons between business and technology stakeholders, translating strategic objectives into actionable, testable, and traceable requirements.
– Choose, administer, and optimize the use of requirements management tools (e.g., ReqSuite, Modern Requirements, Jama).
– Define workflows for requirement intake, review, version control, and change management.
– Provide visibility into the health, quality, and status of requirements across initiatives (e.g., % of requirements with defined acceptance criteria, % of test cases mapped to requirements).
What you’ll need
– Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Information Technology, or a related field.
– At least seven (7) years of experience in business analysis, requirements engineering, or systems analysis, with at least three (3) years in financial services or banking.
– Certifications such as IIBA-CBAP, IIBA-CCBA, or CPRE.
– Strong knowledge of banking products, operations, and regulatory requirements.
– Demonstrated success implementing requirements governance frameworks.
– Proficiency in requirements management tools and traceability practices.
– Strong understanding of Systems Development and Project Management lifecycles.
– Experience in delivering projects within regulated financial domains such as retail banking, payments, lending, or compliance.
– Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall methodologies as applied in banking.
– Understanding of regulatory frameworks such as GDPR, SO X, or Dodd-Frank.
