Sr. Business Analyst

Overview

Hybrid
Up to $100
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

rates and credit
securitized products
trading
business analysis

Job Details

Electronic Trading Senior Business Analyst

A greenfield project is underway to enhance the electronic trading offering within Fixed Income. Working closely with the fixed income trading business both in London and Spain, the team is delivering on a 3-year strategy to build out a new eTrading system to replace an existing vendor system. The project is sponsored at high levels within the business.

Role Description

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will be responsible for ensuring the team delivers a high-quality solution that meets the needs of the business both in terms of required functionality and technical workflow perspective. Using industry best practices for documenting and communicating the requirements to both the technical team implementing as well as to non-technical stakeholders is key. Knowledge of the agile process and how to structure requirements to facilitate this is crucial to the project s success, as is working closely with various stakeholders to break the larger stories down into smaller stories to allow for effective sprint management.

We are looking for candidates with a deep knowledge of Fixed Income electronic trading businesses and a proven track record as a senior BA within front-office development teams.

Job Responsibilities / Role

  • Work closely with business sponsors to elicit requirements to deliver the project milestones.

  • Document these requirements in Jira and structure them into epics, user stories, and tasks.

  • Explain requirements to the development team and work closely with them to deliver the features.

  • Perform UAT testing of newly developed features.

  • Work closely with partner technology teams and collaborate effectively.

  • Potential to line manage developers, DevOps, and QA resources and to coordinate hiring and onboarding of new team members.

Skills Required

Essential:

  • Expert-level product knowledge of rates & credit and securitized products

  • U.S. Treasuries experience

  • Detailed knowledge of rate product pricing valuations and metrics.

  • Proven experience as a hands-on business analyst within a front-office development team for an investment bank.

Desirable:

  • Experience working in an agile development team.

  • Experience managing IT projects.

Qualities & Skills

  • Energetic, motivated and determined

  • Pragmatic and results-oriented

  • Adaptable to a diverse set of responsibilities

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Productive and able to manage time effectively

  • Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications

Bachelor s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery at an advanced level

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