Business Analyst with Strong Calypso experience

Role: Business Analyst with Calypso experience

Location: Phoenix AZ

Duration: Long Term

Key Responsibilities

Requirements Management

• Collaborate with business users and internal clients and stakeholders to understand and anticipate their needs and translate them into requirements.
• Define the requirements and solution design that addresses the business problem and track solution throughout the delivery process.
• In collaboration with Calypso and other internal bank teams (ex: Cyber security, Architecture etc), ensure the solution adheres to internal standards and patterns.
• In collaboration with internal and external stakeholders (ex: Nasdaq), create and maintain a road map of functional and technical features.
• Manage the Jira backlog for projects, ensuring it is organized, prioritized and broken down appropriately into stories, epics and tasks.
• Lead/Facilitate Scrum meetings and product sprints.
• Continuously prioritize and refine the backlog based on changing requirements.
• Ensure the backlog is transparent, understood and visible.
• Ensure the development teams stay on task and work to agreed-upon priorities.
• Assist the development team in making priority decisions when conflicts arise.
• Work with the QA resources to ensure changes are tested appropriately and comprehensively.
• Participate in user acceptance testing and recommend improvements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a product owner, business analyst, and/or project manager.
• Verifiable experience as a liaison between customers and technical delivery teams.
• 5+ years of experience working in support of trading businesses.
• Experience defining customer experience and user journey.
• Experience completing complex technical projects.
• Knowledge and familiarity with industry standard vendor tools such as Jira, Confluence etc.

Expected Skills / Aptitudes

• Solid understanding of trading operations, finance, market data and banking processes.
• Proficiency with Excel, Visio, PowerBI and Tableau and other standard tools & utilities.
• Strong communication, critical thinking, problem-solving and collaboration
• Ability to guide development resources through the requirements
• Ability to write Jira user stories, including acceptance criteria
• Ability to identify areas of improvement
• Familiarity with agile and waterfall project management tools; Jira, Confluence, MS Project
• Ability to analyze data and interpret trends. Data mapping, data lineage, data governance.
• High level of accountability
• Outcome focused self-starter
• Project management, planning and team organization
• High level of analytical thinking and problem solving
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to work comfortably and effectively with wide variety of stakeholder groups from individual contributors to executive level management.