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Karolina Sionkowska

Karolina Sionkowska

IT Analyst
Lublin

Profil zawodowy

Business-System Analyst with 7+ years of experience in banking, fintech, and complex integration projects. Proven expertise in end-to-end business and system analysis, API design, and data-driven decision-making for large-scale enterprise systems.

Experienced in delivering solutions across corporate banking, mobile applications, and payment services, including fintech initiatives.

Strong ability to bridge business and technology, design scalable system integrations, and support product development from concept through implementation. Actively leveraging AI tools (Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini) to enhance analytical processes, accelerate documentation, and improve delivery efficiency in Agile environments.

Podsumowanie

12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education

Doświadczenie

Business-System Analyst

People More
2025.02 - Current

Business-System Analyst

  • Conduct business and system analysis across multiple projects in banking and fintech domains (CSSA, RelOnion, UniCredit in collaboration with InPost);
  • Design end-to-end onboarding processes for corporate clients, covering the full journey from service application to activation for InPost Pay and InPost Buy;
  • Design and validate inter-system communication (APIs, endpoints) for integration between banking platforms, payment providers, and external partners;
  • Analysis of application code (at a basic level) to support system understanding, validate business logic, and troubleshoot integration issues;
  • Design and analysis of REST API communication between systems, ensuring proper data exchange and integration consistency;
  • Design integrations with external public registries, including KRS and CEIDG, to support automated data retrieval and customer verification processes;
  • Gather and define business and system requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholders from banking, fintech, and logistics sectors;
  • Facilitate workshops and analytical sessions with clients and cross-functional teams (business, IT, external vendors) in Polish and English;
  • Participate in system architecture discussions, supporting design of scalable and secure solutions for financial services;
  • Perform data analysis and support business decision-making using SQL and system insights;
  • Support Agile delivery processes, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, and estimation of initiatives;
  • Provide implementation support, including testing, validation, and documentation of new functionalities.

Pre-sales & Project Scoping Activities

  • Actively participated in pre-sales processes including: initial business and system analysis of potential projects;
  • Estimation of project scope, effort, and complexity
    identification of key risks, dependencies, and integration challenges
    preparation of input for commercial offers and solution proposals;
  • Collaborated with business stakeholders, architects, and sales teams to define optimal solution approaches for new initiatives;
  • Supported creation of high-level concepts (HLD) and MVP scopes for prospective clients.

Business-System Analyst

Ailleron
2021.12 - 2025.06

Project “ABBA” for BNP Paribas Bank

  • Conduct business and system analysis for the corporate client settlement system (ABBA);
  • Perform business and system analysis in the areas of entities, documents, and system dictionaries;
  • Verify and analyze system logs;
  • Analyze application code (at a basic level) to support system understanding, validate business logic, and troubleshoot integration issues;
  • Design and analyze REST API communication between systems, ensuring proper data exchange and integration consistency;
  • Verify events on Kafka;
  • Perform data analysis using SQL queries on Postgres and MongoDB (pgAdmin, IntelliJ);
  • Maintain analytical documentation using Jira (analytical stories based on user stories) and Confluence;
  • Collaborate with architects, development teams, and UX/UI teams (Teams, JIRA);
  • Provide 3rd line user support;
  • Support deployment testing on test environments;
  • Conduct backlog refinements.

Project “SGB Mobile App” for SGB

  • Co-create a mobile banking application for children (SGB Mobile);
  • Design services and inter-system communication;
  • Conduct business and system analysis in the area of individual mobile banking (HLD, LLD);
  • Decompose project scope;
  • Define and gather business and system requirements;
  • Maintain analytical documentation for clients, UX, and development teams using Jira (analytical stories based on user stories);
  • Collaborate with architects, development teams, and UX/UI teams (Teams, JIRA, Miro, Mural);
  • Conduct workshops with clients and external vendors;
  • Verify and define the scope of analysis;
  • Conduct briefings and backlog refinements.

Project “LFO/EFL360” for EFL Group

  • Conduct business analysis in the leasing domain;
  • Decompose project scope;
  • Define and gather business requirements;
  • Create, maintain, and update analytical documentation for clients, UX, and development teams;
  • Collaborate with architects, development teams, testers, and UX/UI teams (Teams, JIRA);
  • Verify and define the scope of analysis;
  • Contribute to the design of system changes and enhancements for LFO/EFL360;
  • Conduct analytical and technical workshops with clients;
  • Participate in UX/UI workshops;
  • Participate in analytical and technical workshops ;for the Contractor Module system.

Junior Business Analyst

Comarch
2020.11 - 2021.11
  • Support analysis for the Employee Portal system;
  • Create test scenarios and conducted system tests;
  • Analyzed pre-implementation requirements and created project analysis documents;
  • Conducted analytical meetings with clients and subcontractors.

Junior System Analyst

PKO Bank Polski
2019.04 - 2020.10
  • Conduct business and system analysis for new IT products and services;
  • Gather, document, and align internal client requirements;
  • Prepare project documentation and support UAT testing;
  • Collaborate with internal experts and managers to design and deliver solutions.

IT Operator

PKO Bank Polski
2017.09 - 2019.04
  • Work with Linux console, notepad++, putty and jira apps;
  • Log analysis for users steps and errors during iPKO, iPKO Biznes and Inteligo acitivies;
  • Analysis transaction system issues;
  • Support the complaint handling process;
  • Incident handling;
  • Monitoring IT systems and support for Call Center employees.

Intern

Bank Zachodni WBK
2015.08 - 2015.09
  • Customer service support;
  • Credit application assistance;
  • .Client communication.

Intern

PKO Bank Polski
2014.07 - 2014.08
  • Customer service support;
  • Credit application assistance;
  • Client communication.

Wykształcenie

Bachelor's Degree - Finance and Accounting

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Lublin
2012.10 - 2015.10

Bachelor's Degree - Mathematics

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Lublin
2012.10 - 2015

Master's Degree - Mathematics

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Lublin
2015 - 2017

Umiejętności

Experience

  • Experience in banking systems: corporate, mobile, leasing,
  • Strong analytical and communication skills,
  • Experience working with international stakeholders;

Business & System Analysis

  • Requirement gathering and documentation (BRD, user stories),
  • Business process modeling (BPMN, UML),
  • Functional and system analysis for banking systems;

Technical & Integration

  • API analysis and design (Swagger, REST API communication, endpoint modeling),
  • Basic code analysis to support system understanding, troubleshooting, and validation of business logic,
  • System integration and inter-system communication,
  • Event-driven systems (Kafka – analysis & validation),
  • SQL data analysis (PostgreSQL, MongoDB);

AI & Productivity Tools

  • Experience using Microsoft Copilot to support analysis, documentation creation, and summarization of business requirements
  • Use of Google Gemini for research, ideation, and accelerating analytical and documentation processes
  • Applying AI tools to improve efficiency in requirement gathering, documentation, and communication

Project & Agile Delivery

  • Scrum ceremonies (refinement, sprint planning),
  • Estimation, backlog management,
  • Stakeholder collaboration (business, IT, vendors);

Other

  • Log analysis (Kibana),
  • Test scenarios & UAT support,
  • 3rd line user support and troubleshooting;

Tools

  • JIRA,
  • Microsoft Office and apps,
  • HP Quality Center,
  • Enterprise Architect,
  • Kibana,
  • Notepad,
  • Swagger,
  • pgAdmin,
  • IntellJ,
  • Miro,
  • Mural,
  • Confluence,
  • Google apps,
  • Kafka

Zainteresowania

  • Traveling and exploring new cultures,
  • Mathematics and analytical problem-solving,
  • Creative writing (fantasy short stories),
  • Literature with a focus on fantasy,
  • A sports enthusiast (with a particular interest in darts, volleyball, ski jumping, football, tennis),
  • Music

Languages

English
Advanced
C1
Spanish
Beginner
A1
Italian
Beginner
A1

Oś czasu

Business-System Analyst

People More
2025.02 - Current

Business-System Analyst

Ailleron
2021.12 - 2025.06

Junior Business Analyst

Comarch
2020.11 - 2021.11

Junior System Analyst

PKO Bank Polski
2019.04 - 2020.10

IT Operator

PKO Bank Polski
2017.09 - 2019.04

Intern

Bank Zachodni WBK
2015.08 - 2015.09

Intern

PKO Bank Polski
2014.07 - 2014.08

Bachelor's Degree - Finance and Accounting

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
2012.10 - 2015.10

Bachelor's Degree - Mathematics

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
2012.10 - 2015

Master's Degree - Mathematics

Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
2015 - 2017
Karolina SionkowskaIT Analyst