Senior Business Analyst
Financial Service Background exp is mandatory
Job Description Summary
* Acts as a liaison among business stakeholders and development teams. Works with Senior BAs to understand user stories and break them down into technical tasks to ensure development teams can build from them.
* Supports senior BA / Lead BA in agile ceremonies.
Job Description
* Responsible for the elicitation, analysis and documentation of business needs in order to formulate business requirements at the User Story level.
* Ensures User Stories meet the agreed Definition of Ready and that requirements traceability methods are maintained.
* Responsible for breaking down user stories to a detailed enough level that the development team can build from them, this may include SQL queries, pseudo-code, etc.
* Supports Senior / Lead BAs during Agile ceremonies and with management of requirements and backlogs.
* Builds a strong relationship with relevant stakeholders within the business and development teams.
* Provides information, as required, to the Solution Architecture team to ensure solution designs meet business requirements, including Non-Functional requirements.
* Raises risks, issues and dependencies to the Senior / Lead BA as they arise.
* Makes recommendations to business process improvements.
Additional Job Description
Knowledge & Skill:
* Extensive experienced of the Business Analysis role.
* Good knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (Agile / Scrum and Waterfall).
* Good written and verbal communication skills.
* Must have experience working on Agile projects
* Engage proactively with Agile ceremonies and processes, including working with scrum teams and Product Owners.
* MS SQL skills (common table expressions, group by extensions, etc.)
* Experience with building/understanding data flow diagrams
* Familiarity with composing/understanding XML/XSD and JSON API documentation
* Be able to provide fully described stories (with acceptance criteria), EPICs and Wiki reference documentation.
* Evidence of an ability to combine technology systems / data analysis skills with an ability to reverse engineer application functionalities in absence of functional documentation.
* Strong knowledge of Jira / Confluence / Excel
Scope of Impact:
* Supports business analysis activities for individual workstreams within one or more projects.
* Makes suggestions to how products should be developed at a technical level. Strategic Planning & Decision Making