Story Behind the Need –
Business group: The Customer Insights, Data & Analytics (CIDA
The Customer Insights, Data & Analytics (CIDA) team at Scotiabank is at the forefront of the journey to transform the Bank into a data centric organization through impactful customer insights, innovative analytics, and well governed data. One of the principal areas of transformation is optimizing efficiency in understanding, searching, and accessing data & analytics, which in turn improves the accuracy and speed of decisions. The aim is to vastly improve data literacy by describing data & analytics in business terms; and connect them to physical metadata, data & analytics assets to improve data search and consumption experiences.
Project: As part of the Product team within the Data Management Transformation team, the candidate will work with all key stakeholders to support, train and increase the user adoption of Universal Catalog (Scotiabank’s enterprise metadata repository). The Sr. Business Analyst role requires strong project execution and information management skills, stakeholder management skills, a problem-solving mindset, and a can-do attitude. Business knowledge and experience in banking would also be considered a strong asset.
Candidate Value Proposition
• Play a key role in establishing the long-term data & analytics vision and contribute to the development of the Bank’s optimal data & analytics search experience
• Opportunity to make an impact in the digital transformation of Scotiabank
• Exposure across business lines, function groups and technology areas where data & analytics plays a critical role
• A compensation program with competitive salary, opportunities for annual performance incentives based on performance thresholds, a competitive benefits program and continuing education programs
Typical Day in Role:
• Collaborate with product owners to understand the priorities from the product roadmap and ensure product align with the priorities.
• Operate autonomously in identifying problems with current operating procedures and implement feasible and scalable solutions.
• Apply experience in implementing sustainable solutions when it comes to product improvements.
• Act as a subject matter expert when supporting users and in user training.
• Champion the product to the wider group of users and work on product enablement at scale.
• Ensure best practices are followed by introducing standard operating procedures and frameworks.
• Manage expectations efficiently when working with cross-functional teams, like the product engineering, product owner, change management, and principal stakeholders to ensure the communications related to the product features, releases, and updates are aligned across stakeholders.
• Ensure that the operational processes are documented and communicated effectively to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key stakeholders to ensure product are aligned with business objectives.
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
• 3+ years of experience with the Data Management and Data Governance concepts along with metadata fundamentals, having a global mindset to comprehend the impacts of solutions being built for an enterprise product.
• 3+ years of experience working with tools for building information catalogs that offer features such as data catalog, data ingestion flows, data lineage, process flows, consumption searches, etc.
• 10+ years’ experience in gathering business requirements, then translating them to technical requirements, to user stories, to provide UI/UX Artifacts like Wireframes etc
• 10 years of strong experience in agile project methodology and artifacts, on software/application development lifecycle in an agile fashion
• 10 years of Productivity/Project collaboration tools experience: Confluence, Jira, SharePoint
Nice-To-Have Skills:
• Experience in large-scale and complex governance solutions
• Other metadata management tools such as Talend, IBM IGC, Alation, Collibra etc.
• Cloud platforms and related data services knowledge (e.g., Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services)
• Experience in testing software applications.
• Collibra solutions architect learning path, certified CSPO/PSPO is an asset
Soft Skills Required:
• Effective communication skills (i.e., spoken/written/presentation) to engage a wide array of users to elicit requirements and feedback.
• Self-motivated to solve problems and able to work collaboratively with other team members
• Strong analytical skills to articulate requirements to the product delivery team .
• Self-initiated to anticipate the business user/Stakeholder/Team’s needs and execute the tasks effectively.
Education:
University degree in computer science or a quantitative field