Business Analyst

Story Behind the Need

Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering - Digital Payments - Provide microservices to mobile and web; deal with day-to-day payments, EMTs, bill payments, wallet provisioning

Project: Wealth projects – priority will be wealth management app: stage: first public version was just released – informational application for portfolio, working on functionalities for apps, in the future there will a transactional aspect on the app, for now it is focused on account details, portfolio, descriptions on assets focus; BSA will be working end-to-end on functionalities, from intake of new features, going through requirements with teams (architects, design), helping team with requirement clarification

Candidate Value Proposition:

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a high-volume user project for one of the top 5 Canadian banks, gain exposure of working on a complex high visibility project with multiple teams/stakeholders

Typical Day in Role:

• Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation

• Ensure integrity of business and technical requirements in end-to-end customer journey

• Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development and security architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium sized incoming initiatives

• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements, and turning them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, cheat sheets, etc., whatever is suitable – to meet development and stakeholder needs

• Maintain and curate content in centralized Confluence / SharePoint sites for the team.

• Lead enterprise process engineering development across infrastructure, Security, DevOps, and cryptography teams

• Create, refine and maintain product backlog and associated deliverables, release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines

• Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)

• Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better

• Contribute to a collaborative team environment by information sharing and team cooperation

• Demonstrate strong personal values and a commitment to our mission and customers

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:

1) 5+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a challenging IT system solution agile or lean environment

2) 3+ years’ experience with Web Services- combined experience with the following: RESTFUL / SOAP (XML & JSON)- OpenAPI, , Postman (please list which)

3) 3+ years’ experience utilizing Atlassian suite of tools including JIRA, Confluence

4) 3+ years’ experience with microapps and Microservices architecture

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) Experience with Swagger documentation

Soft Skills Required:

• Analysis, logical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Notice all the little details for every document / requirement / conversation that comes across you, and it drives you crazy that others cannot keep everything consistent

• Do good work, and lots of if; the drive to deliver quality work is just a part of you

• Able to simplify complex situations and navigate ambiguity

Education:

Engineering or Computer Science or technical degree preferred

Best VS. Average Candidate:

Ideal candidate is hands-on in understanding and resolving inconsistencies on the requirements; thinks outside the box and takes initiative in investigating and resolving problems; strong with mobile platforms and API integration knowledge

Candidate Review & Selection

MS Teams Video Interviews

1st technical interview 1 hour with BSA lead and other team member(s)

- Technical knowledge questions, and some scenario questions

2nd HM Interview 30 minutes

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