Position: Principal Business Analyst
Location: Seattle, Washington Hybrid 3 days onsite in a week
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 173601
Job Overview: The Principal Business Analyst is a high-impact, individual contributor role responsible for collaborating with business and technology teams to design and implement technology solutions that support significant business transformations. This position involves initiating business and functional designs, charting user journeys and personas, and identifying key capabilities and milestones. The role requires strong domain knowledge in asset management, including public equities, fixed income, direct indexing, and separate account management. The Principal Business Analyst is proactive, confident, and capable of leading cross-functional teams, employing best practices, and demonstrating exceptional business analysis expertise.
Responsibilities: - Work independently in all aspects of business analysis.
- Utilize expert Agile skills to collaborate with development teams, create epics, and define milestones to advance technology solutions.
- Employ design thinking to iterate on hypotheses that address persona needs and contribute to solution vision and target operating models.
- Conduct user research by interviewing business counterparts to identify and articulate business needs, problems, and opportunities.
- Gather and analyze requirements, including current and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows, and UI wireframes.
- Manage stakeholders by building professional relationships and influencing decisions to advance objectives.
- Collaborate with developers to advocate for business needs and achieve technology outcomes that align with business objectives.
- Prepare for and lead cross-functional team meetings or workshops to drive decisions.
- Develop business outcomes and objectives, create user stories, and contribute to solution backlogs and prioritization.
- Identify capabilities, enablers, milestones, and roadmaps to execute solution designs.
- Increase knowledge of the organization's asset management business and technology landscape to contribute to enterprise goals.
- Communicate effectively with peers, business partners, architects, and developers, tailoring content and messaging for the audience.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's degree required.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in Business Analysis and/or Product Ownership.
- Strong experience in querying, mapping, and documenting data.
- Proven ability to lead and direct others to achieve measurable results.
- Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements.
- Advanced experience with Agile/Kanban software development processes.
- Proficiency in tools for documenting workflows and data mapping, such as Excel and Visio/Lucid.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and flexible in dynamic environments.
- Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.
- Understanding of analysis and documentation goals throughout the project lifecycle.
- Skilled in facilitating decision-making through workshops.
- Quick learner with the ability to adapt to changing environments and tight deadlines.
- Strong organizational skills to manage personal timelines and meet deadlines.
- Experience with SQL, Excel, Visio/Lucid, Jira, and Confluence.
About PTR Global: PTR Global is a leading provider of information technology and workforce solutions. PTR Global has become one of the largest providers in its industry, with over 5000 professionals providing services across the U.S. and Canada. For more information visit ;br>
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Pay Range: $70 - $89.43/hour on W2
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