Project Role : Custom Software Engineer
Project Role Description : Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.
Must have skills : Business Requirements Analysis, Investment Banking, Trade Lifecycle Management, Murex Front Office Finance
Good to have skills : NA
Minimum
7.5 year(s) of experience is required
Educational Qualification : 15 years full time education
Summary:
As a senior Business Analyst (BA), you will work within an Agile team alongside software engineers, working on the next generation of strategic back-office applications, ensuring the solutions are at the required quality to be released. The BA will be responsible for analyzing business processes, identifying areas for improvement, and delivering data-driven recommendations to support decision-making.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate and manage the team to perform.
- Work closely with the Product Owner to understand the product vision, roadmap, and priorities, while ensuring that product features align with strategic goals and user expectations.
- Own/Shape/Refine a migration sequence at client/desk/asset class level across multiple trading regions.
- Proactively ensure project (functional + non-functional) requirements are captured and signed off by key senior Business and Technology stakeholders.
- Challenge stakeholders or other Technology teams where requirements or solutions are not in line with wider strategy or lead to increased risk. - Facilitate training and knowledge sharing sessions to enhance team capabilities.
- Form part of an Agile Delivery POD/Team with specific accountabilities around Story refinement, achieving DoR, DEV/QA handovers, Test support.
- Transpose high level functional requirements into granular JIRA stories with sufficient granularity as to achieve DoR(Definition of Ready).
- Ensuring that current & target state data & process flows are clearly documented in JIRA s as appropriate.
- Complete handover of JIRA s to Developers as part of the DoR stage-gate.
- Work with QAs to ensure test approaches and test ACs align with the functional objective of each story.
- Understand and challenge requirements proactively raise risks and issues to the Project Manager where identified.
- Support testing phases (SIT, UAT) and end user training.
- Take responsibility for the quality of Business Analysis work within the same business line, peer review work and provide feedback.
- Manage ad-hoc tasks as required.
- Ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility.
- Report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as described in the policy.
Professional & Technical Skills:
- Must to Have Skills: Proficiency in Business Requirements Analysis within complex technology-driven environments, highly proficient in Excel, pivots
- Capital Markets / OTC Rates Domain:- IRS, OIS, FRA, Bonds, Swaps, Rates, Fixed Income
- Trade Lifecycle Knowledge
- Business Analysis:- BRD, FRD, User Stories, Backlog, Workshops, Gap Analysis, Process Mapping, UAT
- Trading Platforms :- Bloomberg TOMS, Murex, Calypso, Charles River etc.
- Integration & Messaging:- XML, FIX Protocol, REST APIs
- Agile Delivery :- Scrum, Sprint Planning, Story Refinement, JIRA, Confluence
- Stakeholder management / Front Office Stakeholder Management :- Trader Workshops, Product Owner, Front Office, Business Users
- Strong analytical skills to assess business needs and translate them into technical requirements and problem-solving skills, ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Proven experience of Big data migrations/Data Integration/Data analysis across at client/desk/asset class level.
- Previous experience operating as a Senior Business Analyst in Financial Services Technology, ideally within an Agile development environment.
- UML modelling for functional workflow and requirements.
- Experience in stakeholder management and effective communication skills at all levels strong presentation skills, collab tools.
- Strong understanding of financial products and their data characteristics.
- Solid understanding of HL Architecture/Technical Designs, and specifically which components are impacted by specific requirements, understanding downstream impacts.
- MI & Regulatory Reporting will be a significant part of this role. Experience in breaking down and grouping such requirements will be instrumental in this role.
- Skilled in Microsoft applications software, inclusive of MS Visio and / or BPMN 2.0.
- Ability to collaborate with stakeholders to gather and document business requirements for data integration projects.
- Writing skills: ability to produce documents in a clear, accurate and compelling manner.
Additional Information:
- The candidate should have minimum 8 years of experience in Business Requirements Analysis.
- This position is based at our Pune Magarpatta office and 2 Days in week Office visit.
- A 15 years full time education is required.
