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