Description
The Sr IT Business Analyst acts as an interface w/ the business & a partner within the development teams to provide an integrated solution across domains. They is responsible for independently contributing to the analysis planning, detailed analysis, design, & solution validation for mid to large projects or enhancements for a primary system. The individual must have excellent written & verbal communication skills, excellent problem solving skills, and the ability to facilitate, negotiate, & influence.
Principal Accountabilities:
Analysis Planning, Monitoring, and Communication: Responsible for managing individual responsibilities within the analysis plan, approach, and requirements management. Contributes direct input into the approach and status. May have some oversight and supervision by a project lead or manager. Contributes to a primary system and adjacent systems, while staying informed on analysis work for other systems on the project.
Detailed Analysis: Responsible for performing detailed analysis activities such as detailed requirements, user stories, interface specs, UI specs, and report specs for a primary system. May have oversight and supervision by a project lead or manager.
Elicitation: Often contributes in the elicitation sessions, storyboarding, prototyping, and analysis. Elicitation participation may be limited to their primary system and adjacent systems.
Impact Analysis: Contributes to impact analysis on enhancements. Solicited for input on budget analysis or impact assessments for a primary system.
Knowledge Management: Contributes and manages the knowledge base for a domain, including both project artifacts and living artifacts.
Solution Assessment and Validation: Reviews QA testing strategy and test plans; Informed on the logical and physical design; Informed or participating with supervision on user acceptance testing.
Skills & Software Requirements:
5 to 8 years of experience as a business analyst
Experience with business/application architecture
Very strong communication skills (verbal and written)
Knowledge of Financial services/Capital markets domain is desired
Knowledge of Confluence, JIRA, Database tools / queries, Workflow & Prototyping tools is desired
Knowledge of agile methodologies is preferred
Experience with SQL, data warehousing, big data, and object/data modelling is preferred
Experience with applications running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or on another cloud platform is a plus
Experience with streaming applications and messaging data formats (JSON, Protocol Buffers, FIX, SBE) is a plus
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