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Take business requirements - often incomplete, verbal, or expressed as outcomes rather than needs - and convert them into functional specifications the business can sign off, and technical specifications engineers can implement without further interpretation.\nThe role owns the requirement from the moment it is raised until it is delivered, tested and accepted. Success is measured by how few clarification cycles the build team needs and how little rework surfaces in UAT.\nKey responsibilities\nRequirements elicitation and analysis Run workshops, interviews and process walkthroughs with business stakeholders, subject matter experts and operations teams.\nChallenge stated requirements to establish the underlying business need, the decision being supported, and the value being sought.\nIdentify gaps, contradictions, duplication and unstated assumptions in the source requirements, and drive them to resolution rather than escalating them unresolved.\nDocument current-state (“as-is”) processes and define target-state (“to-be”) processes, including the operational and control changes required.\nAssess regulatory, audit and data-protection implications of each requirement and flag where compliance input is needed. Functional specification Author functional specification documents that define system behaviour in business terms: process flows, use cases or user stories, business rules, decision tables, validation logic, calculation logic, roles and permissions, notifications, and reporting outputs.\nDefine exception paths, error handling and edge cases explicitly - not only the happy path.\nWrite clear, testable acceptance criteria for every requirement.\nSecure formal business sign-off on the functional specification before build commences. Technical specification Translate the approved functional specification into a technical specification that engineering can build against, covering: System and component architecture in scope, and the changes required to each.\nData model changes: entities, attributes, data types, cardinality, referential integrity, retention.\nIntegration and interface specifications: API contracts, request/response payloads, protocols, authentication, error and retry behaviour, throughput and volumetrics.\nData migration and transformation rules, including source-to-target field mappings and cleansing logic.\nConfiguration versus customisation decisions, with rationale.\nNon-functional requirements: performance, availability, scalability, security, auditability, logging and monitoring. Work with solution architects and developers to validate technical feasibility, sizing and effort, and to reconcile the specification with platform constraints.\nDocument assumptions, dependencies, constraints and out-of-scope items. Delivery and quality support Maintain a requirements traceability matrix linking business requirement → functional specification → technical specification → test case → delivered feature.\nGroom and maintain the backlog; ensure work items entering a sprint meet the team’s definition of ready.\nSupport developers through build, acting as the authority on intended behaviour.\nAuthor or review test scenarios; support SIT and UAT, triage defects, and distinguish genuine defects from change requests.\nContribute to release notes, training material, user guides and operational handover documentation. Change and stakeholder management Run impact assessments on change requests: effort, risk, dependencies, cost and schedule implications.\nManage version control and change history across all specification artefacts.\nKeep business and technical stakeholders aligned on scope, sequencing and trade-offs, and communicate decisions and their consequences clearly to both audiences. 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