Job Description

Position Overview Business Analyst is responsible for evaluation of customer business problems and the development of solutions and working with the vendor to meet business requirements also ensuring the product backlog capturing and maturity. Ensuring the team and downstream stakeholders understand the impact of changes. Should be able to ensure his/her team produces data dictionary; and document and understand Business processes. The successful candidate will take responsibility for addressing and supporting the UK and European business projects for new and existing products and functionality initiatives across our systems. The role will encompass the full spectrum of business analyst activities through the full project life cycle. Relationship management skills for the various business contacts for the area will be important to ensure a superior service to our clients is maintained. Key Responsibilities Understand complex business issues and can understand the technical implications associated with business requirements. Writing User Stories and helping with solutions Leading Story walkthroughs and 3 Amigos sessions for the delivery teams Doing extensive data analysis and deriving business insights from data. Handle a demanding work environment and maintain a very high level of deliverable quality. Interact with all levels of the business community, seeking approval from all stakeholders of the projects. Must be able drive solution discussions and produce solution design documents. Define the scope of a business requirement, decide the approach, and produce the specification. Drive the analysis effort from start to end for a given area keeping various stakeholders in the loop and getting approvals/sign offs from them. Assess and ensure that the solution being delivered is fit for purpose. Obtaining agreement on business analysis deliverables and ensuring that they meet all the requirements of the business and tracking these across multiple systems groups. Working with business leads within the team to identify, define, and clarify the scope / issues in terms of complex business/systems requirements. Functionality co-ordination across multiple system projects delivering common, reusable functionality using service-oriented patterns. Acting as a proxy customer with the development teams, facilitating open communication between the customer & development team Driving user acceptance criteria with the customer Co-ordinate with onshore-offshore UK/India business analysts. Work with onshoreoffshore UK/India development teams Interact & work with third party partners and suppliers. Stay abreast of key emerging products / industry standards in the Business Analysis arena. Contribute to BA forum, lead process improvement initiatives. Worked on APIs and SOA (service-oriented architecture) based systems. Skills required Strong SQL query writing skills and be able to do in-depth data analysis. Writing API contracts in Swagger. Should have experience of dealing with multiple Stakeholders, covering different geographies. Should have working experience of APIs Experience of business process re-engineering, analysis, user requirement gathering, gap analysis Should have experience producing functional specifications documents (FSDs) Should have experience producing Solution Design Specifications by working closely with architects and developer community. Ability to progress the analysis and drive decisions to close open issue through discussions with multiple stakeholders. Must be strong in translating business requirements to technical resources (internal and external) in supporting the project. Delivery and results focused. Strong customer awareness & business focus Strong documentation skills of standard SDLC artefacts like SRA/SDS etc. Fair idea of Agile methodology, familiar with Stories requirements artefact used in Agile. Excellent inter-personal, communication, documentation, facilitation & presentation skills Ideally have experience of e-Business, e-Commerce & Internet technologies, best practices & industry standards Ideally have experience of working with business modelling tools e.g. UML and CASE tools e.g. EA, Rational Rose Domain knowledge- Asset Management or Investment banking.