Technical Business Analyst

at  Synechron

We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join our agile team to build on our Big Data application for the business, an intuitive, low-code and forward thinking solution that forms part of the critical business operations and provides efficiency to the global user base. This application is crucial to the business as it supports core business functions such as providing Real time, Near Real time and End of day market data and Price risk, Quant Functions front to back to our business teams.
You will be leading the requirements gathering work to assess the current state, identify improvement opportunity and contribute to the design of the future state solution through evidence based research and analysis. As part of the scrum team, you will be involved throughout the SDLC and be the conduit between the business and the scrum team, particularly during the user testing and transition stages.

TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL HAVE:

• Minimum 5+ years of business analyst experience role.
• Proven experience in leading a new implementation
• An enquiring mind, and the ability to challenge the status quo
• Prior experience in Quant and Risk related projects
• Vendor management to procure/consume new Market Data from internal / External sources
• SQL experience is Mandatory
  If you are flexible, enjoy being challenged, and goal focused, we would love to hear from you.-

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be actively involved in the full data lifecycle including gathering business requirements, designing, testing and maintaining the reports
• Perform data cleansing activities and initiate reports based on understanding the objectives
• Application testing and the impacted data, this will be manual testing and will involve exploratory testing
• Collaborate closely with the team contributing to the solutioning
• Work closely with the management team, peers and other teams
• Be actively involved in the full data lifecycle including gathering business requirements, designing, testing and maintaining the reports
• Perform data cleansing activities and initiate reports based on understanding the objectives
• Application testing and the impacted data, this will be manual testing and will involve exploratory testing
• Collaborate closely with the team contributing to the solutioning
• Work closely with the management team, peers and other teams
• Strong in SQL
• Prior experience in Quant and Risk related projects
• strong Excel skills
• Familiar with ETL process
• Strong communication skills to both technical and business users to support resolution, delivering clear and concise explanation both written and verbal
• Critical thinking skills
• Problem solving skills – initiative solve the user concerns.