Business Analyst / Scrum Master

About the job Business Analyst / Scrum Master

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My recruiter Inc caters to grow the business to next level by providing professional services to empower the organizational values with right suitable candidate. Our mission is to provide the skilled professionals who will work with passion and dedication for the success of the organizations.

Our client is a global software services and solutions provider. Established in 1996, they deliver innovative technology solutions and services across multiple domains, in North America.

The candidate will join the team to work as a Scrum Master and Business Analyst on a number of centralized Compliance Monitoring tools. The tools are used by several Compliance departments. The candidate will work with the Product Owner and the squad to prioritize and execute the delivery of strategic enhancements to these tools.

As a Business Analyst, you will work within a super-fast paced environment, in an agile technical delivery team. This is certainly a hybrid between business, technical, and scrum master skills. You'll be doing anything from conducting analysis to identify business and data requirements, to working closely with the Compliance and Technology to design and execute on implementation plans. The ideal candidate should have the skills listed below but in addition should be a self-driven, dedicated individual who works well in a team and thinks and acts strategically. When faced with a problem, the candidate should be able to ask questions and leverage the skills and expertise of those around them.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with the business to help translate high-level business requirements into detailed functional, testable behavioral driven specifications
• Perform business and data analysis, assess current state, define target state operating model, perform feasibility analysis, define roadmaps and implementation plans
• Understand and articulate the technology vision and strategy, ensure that technology solution is successfully aligned with the business goals and priorities
• Create a collaborative team environment; partner with Agile Coach to provide constructive feedback for continuous agile improvement
• Promote Agile culture, values, behaviors, and principles across business, development and testing organization
• Work closely with Product Owners, other scrum masters, business analyst and QA to progress along squad agenda
• Plan and conduct Agile meetings/ceremonies – e.g., daily stand up, product demos, retrospectives etc.
• Review and manage backlog and in-progress items to ensure the latest work status is captured and updated as appropriate
• Maintain team metrics and report project statuses (e.g., velocity/burn down charts, financial status, issues/risks, etc.) on a regular basis to Product Owner, and to senior stakeholders.
• Takes ownership to drive through resolutions of issues or blockers, coordinate directly with other development/product teams on inter-dependencies or through scrum-of-scrum ceremony
• Monitor team performance and balance workload and help identify continuous improvement opportunities to help the team work more efficiently

Skills

• Strong relevant experience of 5+ years in a large complex banking organization or major consulting firm acting in a Business Analyst and/or Scrum Master or project management capacity
• Strong financial capital markets and product experience preferred
• Relevant and substantial work experience with business requirements definition and management (end to end), structured analysis, process design, and use case documentation
• Strong SQL and Data Analysis knowledge is a must
• Highly versed in Agile Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to partner and liaison between business users and a technical development team
• Excellent relationship management, communication, teamwork, and influence skills; ability to operate at senior levels in both written and verbal communications.
• Proven servant leader – Must be able to garner respect from their team and offer solutions by getting into the details
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Hands on experience to develop full-scale project plans and associated communication documents, including identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path
• Experience estimating resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Ability to proactively manage change in project scope, identify potential issues, and devise contingency
• Experience in Agile project management software/tools (JIRA preferred)
• Proficient with MS Office applications: Excel, MS Project, Visio, Word, and PowerPoint
• Previous experience in Capital markets compliance. Trade Surveillance / Control room Surveillance, Employee investing and activities compliance preferred
• Prior experience working with large volumes of data; and designing target state solutions. Knowledge of trade and market data, financial products preferred
• Prior experience with Surveillance & Controls vendor products like NICE Actimize, Star Compliance

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