Technical Business Analyst

Job Type: Contract
Posted: about 4 years ago
Contact: Aine Grimes
Discipline:
Reference: 202194_1583819536

This role will see you gather and analyse business requirements, providing leadership and innovative solutions for IT systems.


Key Duties

  • Complete and oversee project work stream deliverables including quality control/sign off for area of accountability
  • Provide ongoing assistance to support teams for functionality released into production
  • Provide support and participate in testing activities including unit testing, BA testing and system testing ensuring adequate project coverage
  • Work closely with stakeholders and change management to identify impacts to business processes as a result of system or application changes
  • Effectively prioritise work and deliverables according to specified timeframes
  • Identify project delivery issues and risks, assist with mitigation strategies, and escalate where necessary
  • Evaluate effectiveness of solution delivery (SDLC) tools, processes and methodologies, and make recommendations for continuous improvement
  • Analyse and document business/functional processes and requirements using standard analysis methodologies and tools
  • Converts business needs into functional designs using knowledge of system capabilities, rules, and architecture.
  • Enables, motivates, directs and continuously develops a committed, empowered, and high-performing team.
  • Provides team leadership by prioritising, assigning and reviewing work and deliverables of team members according to specified timeframes


Technical Ability/Knowledge
Working knowledge of:

  • Cloud (Amazon AWS, MS Azure)
  • IAAS, PAAS, SAAS
  • Networking essentials (Firewalls, Security, routing, etc)
  • Virtualisation
  • Operational Readiness
  • SCAT / PEN Testing
  • Trading Technology applications (Reuters, Bloomberg, Wallstreet, Murex etc)


B.A. Management Ability

  • Demonstrative experience of best practice BA techniques and frameworks (Accreditation preferred but not essential)


Professional Experience

  • Working experience of front, middle and back office environments within financial services (Preferred but not essential)
  • Demonstrative experience of delivering technology projects (Infrastructure projects predominantly) within a financial services environment against heavy time constraints


Soft skills

  • Leadership of on shore and off shore resources
  • Heavily customer centric approach to solution design and creation
  • Clear decision making capability
  • Adaptive, logical thinker
  • Challenger mentality - demonstrative experience in process improvement to benefit customers

For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Aine on 02 9409 4817 quoting reference: 202194