Stifel Financial Corp.

Bank Systems Analyst

Stifel Financial Corp.  •  Saint Louis, MI (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

Why Stifel

Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole.

Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success

What You'll Be Doing

The Bank Systems Analyst supports the design and connection of Stifel's banking and payment systems. This role will unite various providers' core banking, payment, and digital banking systems. The Analyst will consider user and business needs in designing and defining requirements, creating documentation, and supporting implementation. The Analyst is then available for testing and troubleshooting support. A strong candidate will have a passion for building and evolving systems, a strong background in payments, and a strong background in how systems communicate. This role requires experience in Internet fundamentals with a significant focus on middleware applications to connect off-premise Fintech providers, all to support a rapidly growing business. Interacting with and motivating teams through your passion for the technology and the business it will support is crucial.

What We're Looking For

  • Reviewing and advising requirements and specifications for APIs.
  • Defining high-level application platform architectural guidelines and articulating the reasoning and trade-offs for choices to business owners.
  • Working closely with cross-organizational development teams to ensure work meets the specifications; this includes documentation and testing verification.
  • Working with API vendors and Fintech partners for integration.
  • Helping vendor partners connect the sandbox environment for API testing.
  • Serving as the technical expert on the team.
  • Evaluating and deciding on new technologies and how they fit into the existing solutions.
  • Ensuring proper security and architectural standards are used.
  • Communication and awareness of implemented technology.
  • Creating, reviewing, and approving technical documentation, specifications, and project artifacts.
  • Recommending standards and best practices across the entire bank for technology.
  • Demonstrating a deep understanding of the business to drive, formulate, and design complex solutions to anticipate and meet business needs.

What You'll Bring

  • Significant knowledge of application integrations and Application Program Interface (API) functionality.
  • Ability to learn to architect, design, and support Fintechs using APIs.
  • Superior communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts/ideas in non-technical language.
  • Experience working directly with Product Owners and Business Leaders to design technical solutions.
  • Experience with presenting technical materials to all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to work well both individually and in a team.
  • Ability to be self-sufficient and work under minimal direction.

Education & Experience

  • Minimum Experience: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum Required: 0-3 years of experience supporting, implementing, and/or designing application programming interfaces.

Licenses & Credentials

  • Minimum Required: None.

Systems & Technology

  • Proficient in Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office suite.
  • Functional, working knowledge of web-based solutions and/or APIs: HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP, Java, microservices, JSON.
  • Preferred qualifications in system connectivity, including Apigee, Mulesoft, and similar middleware.
  • Preferred qualifications in core systems, including Fiserv and Finastra.

About Stifel

Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.

While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.

At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.

Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Stifel Financial Corp.

About Stifel Financial Corp.

Established in 1890, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated is one of the nation’s premier full-service financial services firms, providing brokerage, trading, investment banking, investment advisory, and related services to individual investors, professional money managers, businesses, and municipalities through more than 400 locations across the U.S.

Stifel ranks as the 7th largest brokerage firm in the country as measured by number of financial advisors, with approximately 2,300, and features a highly regarded equity research department that has earned numerous accolades from such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the Financial Times. In 2023, 2024, and 2025 Stifel was recognized as the No. 1 wealth management firm for employee advisor satisfaction, based on the J.D. Power U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study*.

Stifel is the principal subsidiary of Stifel Financial Corp. (NYSE: SF), a financial services holding company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Stifel Financial Corp.'s other subsidiaries include Stifel Independent Advisors, LLC, an independent contractor broker-dealer firm; Stifel Nicolaus Europe Limited, the Company’s European subsidiary; Stifel Nicolaus Canada, Inc., our Canadian subsidiary; Stifel Bank and Trust and Stifel Bank, retail and commercial banks; and Stifel Trust Company, N.A. and Stifel Trust Company Delaware, N.A, our trust companies.

*Based on the results of the J.D. Power 2025 U.S. Financial Advisor Satisfaction Study℠. For J.D. Power 2025 award information, visit jdpower.com/awards. Compensation provided for using, bot obtaining the award.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
St. Louis, MO
Year Founded
Unknown
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