Job Title: Business System Analyst
Contract Length: 6+ months (with possibility for extension or conversion based on funding & performance)
Location: WFH (on site, Toronto)
Our large financial client is seeking a Business System Analyst to assist with multiple projects – 2 in particular:
– Project: Undertaking modernizing initiatives to revamp a significant portion of the bank's customer-facing capabilities on the digital channel:
As the BSA you will be the bridge between our business partners in marketing and our engineers, responsible for delivering exciting products in the Digital Banking Unit. You will help scale, enable, and drive engineering excellence in digital marketing technologies as our team continues to deliver innovative solutions to the bank's customers.
Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to exposure to different parts of the bank/teams as well as have the chance to be extended further.
Typical Day in the Role:
§ Be the go-to person for the team on technical products within the portfolio of our team
§ Provide estimates for incoming projects/initiatives at both high level and detailed level requirements
§ Analyze business requirements, and ensure consistent and accurate translations of requirements through all phases of software development lifecycle
§ Be responsible for creating, refining and maintaining technical EPICs and user stories with detailed acceptance criteria and associated deliverables
§ Direct day-to-day activities in a manner consistent with our risk culture and the relevant risk appetite statement and limits, and communicate it throughout the team
§ Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements, and turning them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc., whatever is suitable to meet development and stakeholder needs
§ Facilitate sprint planning and grooming sessions and ensuring user stories are well understood by development and QA teams
§ Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (reporting, performance, interfaces, constraints, etc.)
§ Facilitate problem-solving discussions and general communications between the business and IT and within IT itself
§ Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better
Must Have Skills:
1) BSA – 6+ years of professional experience
2) Excellent understanding of web-based content delivery infrastructure concepts such as but not limited to content distribution networks (CDNs) such as Akamai, content management system (CMS) such as Adobe Experience Manager 3+ years of hands-on experience
Nice to Have Skills:
– Agile experience
– FI/Banking
Education:
– University Degree preferred but open to other degrees