Batch processing

Roles that need it

• Payments Operations Analyst
• Loan Operations Analyst
• Data Analyst (Banking)
• Business Analyst (Banking)
• Fund Accountant

Skills it belongs to

• ETL/ELT pipeline design
• Functional analysis between business and IT

Related concepts

• Real-time processingReal-time processing handles each event as it arrives, within seconds or less, instead of waiting for a scheduled batch. Instant payments, fraud scoring and intraday liquidity monitoring depend on it. Streaming is the common technical pattern.
• ETL (extract, transform, load)ETL is the process of extracting data from source systems, transforming it (cleaning, mapping, joining, aggregating) and loading it into a target such as a data warehouse. ELT is the variant where raw data is loaded first and transformed inside the target platform.
• MainframeA mainframe is a large, highly reliable central computer built to process very high volumes of transactions. Many banks and insurers still run core accounts, payments and policy systems on mainframes, often in COBOL, which makes skills and modernisation a recurring issue.

Sources

• BIRD technical guidelines 4.1, ECB (external site) accessed 31 Oct 2026

Updated 31 Oct 2026.