Specialist, Business Analysis (Data Services)

• We re in search for an experienced Business Analyst that has strong hands-on experience working with external-facing commercialized data products and solutions. In this role, you ll primarily be working with internal stakeholders (product managers, business analysts, other business SMEs) and the firms to gather requirements, elaborate on the requirements, work with the Data Services Product team, the developer and QA teams to ensure the requirements are understood and have a clear path to execution and how the data solution will solve the need.
• Reporting to the Head of Data Services, this role is part of a robust Data Services team who oversees the build and maintenance of commercialized Data Platforms and Data-as-a-Service capabilities. This team works as both the champion of building platform capabilities, but also delivery of data through these capabilities on behalf of other business/product teams.
• This role is expected to be involved in (one or several) Scrum teams, daily Scrum meetings, and broad Data Services team meetings. This will require heavy collaboration. Our business model is hybrid, working from our Bangalore campus.

• Responsible for business requirements gathering, functional design, providing support of user acceptance testing and project implementation. This position will interact with all levels of the organization to ensure timely completion with the highest degree of quality of industry, regulatory and client initiatives.

Core responsibilities will include:

• Gather user requirements from external/internal clients via User Requirements Documentation and/or end-user interviews
• Participate in project estimation process
• Build relationships with various external and internal stakeholders
• Along with stakeholders and technical development staff, create functional design documents based upon user requirements
• Develop a strong test plan to ensure project quality
• Develop and execute test scripts for functional testing, ensuring that all identified requirements have been thoroughly tested and defects and/or results have been properly documented
• Provide on-going project support for regression, system testing, and User Acceptance Testing
• Report project status to stakeholders as well as project management or senior executives
• Develop a professional rapport with the project stakeholders and maintain an excellent level of client satisfaction
• Create implementation plans and validate the successful implementation of projects
• Share your passion for staying on top of trends, experimenting with and learning new technologies, participating in internal & external wealth management communities, mentoring other members of the financial technology community

• 6-10 years of professional and hands on experience in a Business Analysts role; preferably in the brokerage or financial services industry.
• An experience in client facing document writing like scope document, functional documents, use cases as well as Acceptance criteria would be preferred.
• Hands-on experience in building and testing RESTful APIs and SQL
• Experience interacting, or publishing data to, Snowflake cloud data warehouse
• Bachelor s degree or more in Computer Science, Finance, Business, or a related field
• Ability to understand and communicate simple to somewhat involved technical concepts
• Excellent analytical problem solving, organization, interpersonal, & communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
• The willingness to learn new technologies and/or you should be able to get up-to-speed on them quickly
• Work autonomously and in teams, are excited by new technologies and industry initiatives, and will never back down from the challenges of scale
• Experience building successful client and internal team relationships