IT Business Analyst

IT Business Analyst

The BA is ultimately responsible for partnering with the Product Owner to create, refine and maintain a healthy backlog of user stories which are easily understood by the consuming team(s). Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Forming strong bonds and a healthy working relationship with the feature team they are assigned to.
• Collecting user requirements and feedback from Product Owners and Tech Leads in formal and informal settings.
• Performing in depth analysis for fact finding on existing behaviour of the system (including business logic and end-to-end data flow) and educating stakeholders to help ensure the build of comprehensive, robust requirements.
• Refining stories to a level of detail that will enable code to be written and tested without defects or requirements gaps; write acceptance criteria and generate test scripts.
• Partnering with content team for content management for final content readiness.
• Managing JIRA process and accompanying Confluence documentation – including maintaining a living evergreen repository so we always have an understanding of our current state.
• Managing product backlog along with Product Owners – including having 2 sprints backlog refined and partnering with Scrum Master on sequencing.
• Working closely with UX teams on design of new features and components.
• Running effective JAD sessions and/or feature team refinement sessions.
• Juggling multiple stories at any given time, with aggressive delivery

Additional Skills:

• Retail/Consumer banking and investment products.
• Web service and database technologies
• Programming Languages (JavaScript, Kotlin, Swift preferred).
• Appreciation of responsive web design & accessibility.