Business Analyst

Title: Technical Business Analyst

Location: NY(Onsite)

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze business requirements to understand the business needs and determine system/application design to best meet those needs
• Combine knowledge of what the business wants with knowledge of current-state system design to groom technical stories/specifications for the target-state
• Serve as the primary liaison between the Business, Architecture, Development and Testing teams throughout the project life cycle
• Strategize with the business for the optimization of system processes; identify efficiencies and ways to improve BAU design and system flow
• Identify, assess, and document business requirements and functional/technical specifications; recommending business priorities, and advising business on options, risks, and costs
• Schedule and lead requirements review & design sessions with stakeholders; gather testable system requirements and translate them into user stories
• Analyze impact of proposed solution across the business and develop use cases to demonstrate the business requirements to the technology teams

Qualifications:

• Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience as Business Analyst, Business Systems Analyst, System Analyst or Technical Analyst, with emphasis on technology and end-to-end implementation
• Prior experience in financial / banking institutions (preferably Wealth Management) with strong markets and trading system knowledge
• Excellent verbal and written skills are critical since this job primarily entails communicating information to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience working with software or web technology teams; with experience developing specifications for Web Service and Database layers
• Experience with software development methodologies and practices (SDLC, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, etc.
• Strong interpersonal skills to manage relationships with a variety of partners and stakeholders
• Application development/programming experience
• Business domain knowledge of investment products & experience with analyzing and implementing digital wealth management solutions
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence (or similar tools) is a plus