Business Systems Analyst

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Job description

Work Location: Plano, TX

Must be USC or GC for this role W2 opportunity (no C2C)

Responsibilities

Familiarity with basic financial industry concepts and trade life cycle

Experience in working soup to nuts on client facing business applications.

Ability to think like a product owner - like benefits of an application, wear a user hat, how to sell it to management etc.

Understanding of each step of the Agile SDLC from eliciting requirements from stakeholders, documenting specs, giving a walkthrough to developers in technical language, coordinating testing.

Basic program management skills - like creating and tracking a project plan for medium size projects. Budgeting etc.

Intermediate SQL query writing skills

Intermediate JQL (Jira Query Language) skills. Job involved heavy use of Jiras and complex querying.

Experience in writing detailed techno-functional specs that include. We'll need a sample of all the documents listed below (with confidential data taken out). It might be better to send me the sample documents created by the candidate ahead of spending time on an interview

Detailed use cases

Logical data model

API request response

Data dictionary

Ability to articulate the following succinctly

A product pitch and key features of whatever application they worked on

Their specific day to day role at each step of the SDLC

Requirements management for the entire development lifecycle (scope management, elicitation, documentation, and validation), process improvement, process integration, functional architecture, data modeling, and technology design of large-scale cross-functional projects

Drive Agile Project Management responsibilities serving as a Servant Leader - Sprint planning, sprint review, sprint tracking, conducting daily stand-up meetings, sprint retrospective, status reporting, backlog grooming, and Managed Services (MSA) engagement model responsibilities

Work with senior stakeholders in order to discover process inefficiencies and process risks

Ensure quality delivery of various artifacts like project charter, business case, project plan, BRD, FRD, user stories, test plan documents, technology design document, etc.

Work with the UX team to ensure optimal user experience

Work with data analysts and architects to ensure database designs are consistent with information architecture, information management and industry standards

Client relationship management with senior stakeholders across various lines of business to compile and prioritize enhancements to the system (maintained in JIRA)

Interface with other system owners that have an upstream or downstream dependency

Manage a team of developers and quality testers to enhance and maintain tactical applications in BAU mode.

Support the production support process for everyday issue management and resolution

Maven

Conduct strategic technology project management and planning for a globally distributed team.

Foster client relationships and stakeholder management for technology applications in regulatory compliance intelligence and financial services wealth management portals.

Develop training for business analysts in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process and financial services domain.

Address resource loading, staffing shortages, and project scope and project risks.

Manage project execution to ensure adherence to budget, schedule, and scope.

Elicit and validate requirements for wealth management and regulatory compliance intelligence and market intelligence applications.

Create functional specifications for the technology team.

Document business requirements, business processes, technical design, and preparation of use cases and test cases.

Skills

Proficient in Microsoft Office, MS Visio, Microsoft Project, BPMN,

Proficient in SQL and test script writing

Proficient in technical documentation and functional design documents

Proficient in Jira or equivalent SDLC management tool

Familiarity with Agile development

Balsamiq or equivalent low fidelity design tool

MS Project

MS VISIO

Clarity PPM

Creating technical design documents

Creating functional specifications.

Capabilities

Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, or relevant field

A minimum of 6 years experience as a business systems analyst

Ability to work in a collaborative environment

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

Highly analytical mindset

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