Business Analyst
Remote
1 yr contract
Job Details: - Write technical business requirements for integrating applications
- Have experience working on the process of integrating auto generated documents and forms with business processes in a Banking context.
- Serve as a technical analyst responsible for integrating various software applications with the backend servicing systems
- Serve as a lead systems analyst in the development team to plan, coordinate, analyze, design, document and implement application integrations efforts to meet current and future needs
- Facilitate conversations with the business and technical support teams to document capability needs and outcomes
- Manage the flow of user requirements from the product backlog to the planning meetings, providing a joined-up overall view of the solution requirements at a detailed level.
- Work with the Product Owner to maintain the product backlog, assist in adding, removing, estimating, and prioritizing work.
- Help specify acceptance criteria and facilitate the translation of those criteria into test cases with the test team.
- Prepare and co-ordinate the required materials to facilitate successful backlog prioritization and planning meetings.
- Provide leadership to project teams in identifying root cause of issues and directing troubleshooting efforts
- Develop solution architecture models and documentation (key project deliverables) and/or oversee and approve the creation of necessary documentation. Specifications to be testable, measurable, and definitive.
- Orchestrate overall technical activities including design reviews, defect resolution processes across project teams.
- Collaborate with the broader architecture community to ensure alignment with IT strategies and standards.
- Evaluate business unit and IT decisions to ensure they are in the best interest of customers and company goals and escalate as needed.
- Provide inputs to executive level presentations for project stakeholders.
- Work with third party vendors as part of tendering processes and assist with specifying and managing deliverables.
Required Knowledge and Experience - 3+ years' experience supporting an online banking application as a business / technical analyst or as a developer
- Strong systems analysis background, with at least 3 years spent working with agile methodologies
- Demonstrable experience working in a highly collaborative environment, with focus towards delivering real business results.
- Hands on experience with application development, architecture, and software maintenance.
- Experienced in enterprise application integration, middleware technologies, database technologies and backend interfaces
- Excellent communication skills, both written and spoken evidenced by the ability to communicate across all levels of an organization
- Excellent interpersonal and leadership skills - lead, collaborate, facilitate, and negotiate as necessary
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, Visio and PowerPoint
- Demonstrated experience with problem solving outside-the-box to find solutions that mitigate risks/issues, rather than blindly following process
- Experience in a large-scale IT organization with complex systems environment & infrastructure
- Highly organized, self-starter requiring minimal supervision
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, IT, etc. from an accredited university or equivalent
Desirable Knowledge and Experience
- Experience with Behavior Driven Development techniques including Gherkin
- Experience working within the financial services industry.
- Working with 3rd party vendors and specification of deliverables.
- Hands-on experience working with multi-component, high availability systems and enterprise applications
Methodology - The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, methodology. Agile framework for development teams.
Software Tools - Adobe Forms
- Adobe Experience Manager
- IBM Business Automation Workflow (BAW)
- DocuSign
- JSON/REST API Development
- Office 365 Business Productivity - (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, SharePoint)
- Azure DevOps - Provides developer services to support teams to plan work, collaborate on code development, and build and deploy applications. (Includes Smart Docs)
- Visio Flowchart and diagramming
- PowerBi Data querying, modelling and visualization
- SQL Server - Relational database management system
- SOAP UI Automated testing tool for SOAP and REST APIs
- BaNCS Core banking software suite
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Last updated on Sep 17, 2021