Sr. Business Analyst

Role- Business Analyst


15+ years and over; no one under 15 years experience will be considered


Must have "Asset Management" background.
Deep data analyst exposure


must be a Business Analyst, Data Analyst and some project management experience - combine of all in his past exp

See below for notes and updates.



Must: (15+ years Exp)

• Typical Business Analyst Responsibilities
  • Strong experience in querying, mapping and documenting data
  • Experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
  • Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements
  • Advanced experience working with Agile/Kanban software development processes
  • Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Excel and Visio/Lucid
  • Ability to work be comfortable with ambiguity and to be flexible in a dynamic environment.
• Financial Services is a MUST
  • Asset Management Background --> Specifically FIXED INCOME (Loosened the need for FIXED INCOME - but ASSET MGMT IS A MUST)
• 100% needs to be an IC - Has to work independently (THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT )
• Stakeholder Mgmt is very important
• Working Knowledge within Jira
• Have some sort of technical lingo
  • Will be working with Technical Teams
• Strong Data Analysis within different Databases
  • SQL (Simple SQL)
• Strong Solutioning Experience
  • Someone who can take a large initiative and come up with an entire solution
    • This is the tasks for this initiative and be able to delegate the tasks to the team .
    • Not someone who is given tasks, but the person coming up with the tasks themselves and handing out to team to take care of

Plus :

• Previous Decommissioning or re-architecture initiatives
  • A lot of Decommissioning of applications current happening at MS/Parametric

D2D:

• Current initiative : Data Center Decommissioning
  • Plenty of applications on that data center that are being refined (refining new homes for the functionality)
    • Work with business to understand what the current business looks like, document the user journey's, work with Tech to understand the system flow, work with other members of team to identify solutions / understand where these solutions will move to.
    • Ability to draw out user journey's
      • Work with the business to write user stories

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Works independently in all aspects of business analysis
- Utilize expert Agile skills to collaborate successfully with development teams, create epics, milestones to advance the technology solution.
- Employ design thinking to iterate on the hypothesis that solves for the personas needs. Ability to significantly contribute to the solution vision and target operating model. Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to drive solution design decisions.
- Conduct user research by interviewing business counterparts to effectively draw out and articulate the business need/problem/ opportunity to be addressed with strong listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
- Gather and analyze requirements with a view toward design, including current state and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows and UI wireframes.
- Manage stakeholders by bringing them along on the journey, collaboratively socializing design components and by building professional relationships and influencing skills to advance objectives.
- Work closely and influence developers, strongly advocating for business needs, to achieve technology outcomes that will support the business objectives. Apply knowledge of technology to understand what is possible and quickly learn new technology concepts. Adapt to development teams' work preferences to effectively collaborate, whether Agile or other style

JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor's degree required

- A minimum of 15 years of experience in Business Analysis and/or Product Owner
- Strong experience in querying, mapping and documenting data
- Experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
- Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements
- Advanced experience working with Agile/Kanban software development processes
- Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Excel and Visio/Lucid