Integration Technical Analyst

PACT Solutions

. Facilitate workshops and interviews with business SMEs, product owners, system administrators, developers, architects and vendors .

Posted 10/8/2026contractHigh Wycombe • United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £450 - £500 per dayWebsite

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Demonstrates expertise in integration analysis, requirements elicitation, and documentation, with a strong focus on translating business needs into technical specifications. Proficient in defining integration patterns, data mappings, and exception handling within complex systems.

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Integration AnalysisRequirements ElicitationUser Story WritingData MappingAPI Analysis

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Hard Skills

Integration RequirementsData MappingTransformation RulesValidation RulesException ScenariosAsynchronous IntegrationSynchronous IntegrationAPI DefinitionsDatabase StructuresTechnical Documentation

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)Integration PatternsMonitoring Tools

Industry Keywords

Higher EducationStudent Records SystemsVLE/LMSIdentity and Access ManagementLearning Analytics

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Facilitate workshops and interviews with business SMEs, product owners, system administrators, developers, architects and vendors
Elicit and document functional and non-functional integration requirements
Translate business requirements into implementation-ready user stories and acceptance criteria
Analyse existing integrations, technical documentation, system configuration and implementation artefacts
Document end-to-end integration flows, triggering events, participating systems, interfaces and processing stages
Define interface requirements for APIs, messaging, queues, files, databases and other integration mechanisms
Produce detailed source-to-target data mappings, including fields, structures, attributes, data types, defaulting, transformation, derivation, translation, validation, filtering and selection rules
Define event and message behaviour for canonical, ESB and event-driven integration patterns
Identify sequencing, dependencies, correlation, idempotency and retry requirements
Define business and technical exception scenarios and handling
Specify error handling, reconciliation, retry, dead-letter or quarantine processes
Define logging, monitoring, alerting and operational support requirements
Identify security, authentication, authorisation and service-account requirements
Work with developers and integration engineers to resolve ambiguity and refine specifications
Support test preparation by tracing requirements and mappings to test scenarios and acceptance criteria
Assist with defect triage related to requirements, mappings, transformations or interface behaviour
Maintain traceability between requirements, user stories, interface specifications, mappings and delivered functionality
Produce or maintain integration requirements specifications, epics, features, user stories, diagrams, interface catalogues, API specifications, event/message definitions, mapping specifications, validation rules, exception matrices, recovery requirements, non-functional requirements, security requirements, monitoring requirements and traceability documentation
Analyse integration requirements through to implementation-ready detail and objective acceptance/testing

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience of integration analysis rather than solely general-purpose business analysis
Requirements elicitation with both business and technical stakeholders
Writing detailed user stories and testable acceptance criteria
Producing source-to-target data mappings
Analysing APIs, database structures, messages, files and other integration interfaces
Defining transformation, translation and validation rules
Documenting business and technical exception scenarios
Understanding asynchronous and synchronous integration patterns
Familiarity with Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), canonical data models and event-driven integration
Understanding publish/subscribe, request/reply, queues, topics, message routing, correlation, retries and dead-letter handling
Ability to analyse existing implementations rather than relying solely on greenfield requirements
Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, API definitions, database schemas, configuration and logs
Confidence working directly with integration developers, solution architects, infrastructure teams and application specialists
Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business stakeholders and business requirements clearly to technical teams
Higher Education experience highly desirable, particularly with Student Records Systems, timetabling, attendance, VLE/LMS, student portals, identity and access management, admissions and enrolment, module and programme data, student/staff/organisational data, assessment and results, learning analytics, and room/resource management
Ideally understand shared Higher Education entities including students, staff, modules, programmes, academic periods, teaching activities, locations, enrolments and attendance events

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