Integration Analyst

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Integration Analyst to join the team in Lisbon. This role is central to the client's technical expansion, focusing on the end-to-end lifecycle of integrations with Payment Service Providers (PSPs). The successful candidate will possess a deep understanding of financial data flows and the technical rigor required to maintain a secure, scalable payments ecosystem.

The Integration Analyst serves as the primary technical liaison between external financial partners and client's internal engineering teams. You will be responsible for translating complex PSP requirements into precise technical specifications, ensuring that all integrations ranging from card processing to emerging payment methods are architecturally sound and meet our client's high standards for reliability and business value.

About the Client

Our partner is a payment gateway provider that operates a massive ecosystem of brands. They simplify complex payments through smart routing technology, real-time monitoring, and SSL/PCI DSS Level 1 security.

As their exclusive recruitment partner, we manage their full-cycle talent acquisition.

What You Will Do

• Engage with external PSPs to conduct thorough analysis of their technical requirements and integration protocols
• Develop detailed system designs, workflows, and technical specifications to meet business needs
• Create detailed API request/response mappings and Sequence Diagrams
• Coordinate with internal product and business stakeholders to ensure technical solutions fulfill strategic and compliance requirements
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements, ensuring alignment with business goals
• Work closely with developers, testers, and product teams to ensure successful system implementations
• Provide expert guidance to the development team throughout the build phase 
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) by creating test cases and validating complex transaction flows
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, including system requirements, user guides, and technical manuals
• Drive efficiency by identifying opportunities for system improvements and workflow optimization

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or an equivalent technical discipline.

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience operating as an Integration Analyst, System Analyst, or in an identical technical capacity.

• Deep background within the financial technology sector coupled with extensive hands-on experience utilizing application programming interfaces (APIs) is mandatory.

• Demonstrated competency in requirement elicitation, structural system modeling, and procedural optimization.

• Advanced proficiency utilizing SQL, system modeling frameworks such as UML or BPMN, and corporate tracking platforms like JIRA and Confluence.

• Proven history operating productively within Agile and Scrum project management frameworks.

• Superior analytical, structured problem-solving, and organizational capabilities.

• Exceptional communication skills to successfully bridge communication gaps between technical engineers and corporate business units.

• Advanced professional fluency in the English language.

• Prior experience handling cryptocurrency networks, credit card processing systems, or PCI DSS compliance frameworks is highly advantageous.

What's in It for You

• Learning and development opportunities and interesting challenging tasks
• Relocation package (tickets, staying in a hotel for up to 2 weeks, and visa relocation support for the employees and their family members)
• Opportunity to develop language skills, with partial compensation for the cost of English and Portuguese language classes (for localization purposes)
• Partial compensation for tennis lessons
• Global coverage health insurance
• Time for proper rest, with 24 working days of annual vacation and additional paid sick days
• Transport compensation - 200 euros net per month
• Competitive remuneration level with annual review
• Team building activities