Senior Technical Business Analyst

Senior Technical Business AnalystLocation: Manhattan, NYC (Fully Onsite)Duration: Long Term Type: W2 (With all inclusive)Client: NTT Data / Morgan StanleyTeam Profile: Non-Financial Risk Technology (NFRT) provides operational controls and surveillance capabilities to enhance the firm’s resilience to threats and fraudulent behavior. Our support of critical business functions extends to archival & records management, business continuity planning and due diligence investigations.Position Description: This role is part of the Financial Advisor Monitoring and Registration Department, within NFRT. This team supports the Risk and Compliance divisions with tools and applications to assist them with their task of monitoring Financial Advisor’s compliance with the Firm’s policies and procedures.As a Business Analyst, you will be responsible for providing business analysis, project management and data analysis support for tool enhancements: eliciting and documenting business requirements, user acceptance testing, data analyst, and product support. The ideal candidate should have the skills listed below but in addition should be self-driven, dedicated individual who works well in a team and think and acts strategically. When faced with a problem, the candidate should be able to ask questions and leverage the skills and expertise of those around them.Key Responsibilities:We are looking at a technically adept senior business analyst (more like a Product Owner) who will run the entire project end-end (Client relationships, business requirements & has technical understanding). The reason being that he/she would be working with developers who are relatively junior.Elicit, analyze, generate Business requirements documents (including Agile user stories, proof of concept models, and supporting documentation).Analyze data sets to determine data gaps and work with cross functional teams to bridge the gapLiaise with the development team to ensure the product is developed according to specifications.Conduct Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), write and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) test plan.Create and manage the overall project plan at the project level; and escalate delays to the program lead.Provide post deployment support and respond to inquiries from business clients regarding specific controls.Qualifications Skills Required:Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar.Minimum 10 years’ experience in global organizations as a Technical Business Analyst.Proficiency in Data Analysis, with working experience in SQL and relational databases.Established technical knowledge in software development life cycle and agile methodologies.Strong communication skills, both verbal and written; as well as work in an international team.Collaborate effectively across a variety of IT and Business groups, across regions and roles.Self-motivated individual and creative thinker who will take ownership of tasks assigned.Ability to problem solve and have creative solutions in challenging environments.Able to thrive in a fast-paced, high energy, demanding and team-oriented environment.Manage and delegate workload through the team.Good customer service skills. Ability deal with difficult situations gracefully.Experience in trade lifecycles and asset classes, Equity, Fixed Incme, Options, Futures.Understanding of Compliance surveillance platforms (Actimize, MANTAS, Sungard) and their models, Wash trades, Marking the Open/Close, Spoofing, Insider Trading, etc.Desired Skills:IT Project Management and SDLC knowledge/experience (Waterfall, Agile/Scrum) and experiencing using BOD.Experience working in medium to large-scale development projects.