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USA Hybrid Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst

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Description

Ciklum is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join our team full-time in in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

We are a custom product engineering company that supports both multinational organizations and scaling startups to solve their most complex business challenges. With a global team of over 4,000 highly skilled developers, consultants, analysts and product owners, we engineer technology that redefines industries and shapes the way people live.

About the role:

As a Senior Business Analyst, become a part of a cross-functional development team working with an American bank chartered in Texas. It has 155 branches and is one of the 60 largest banks in the US by total assets. This role has a hybrid mode with an expectation to visit the client in San Antonio 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, estimate, and perform Business Analysis activities within all SDLC stages
  • Facilitate Core banking implementations and support migration for a successful go live
  • Ability to support banks post go live with the new services and features made available
  • Support Testing across SIT and UAT phases
  • Define business needs and objectives
  • Ensure stakeholders' engagement and effective collaboration
  • Define the most applicable elicitation approach and use appropriate techniques and ensure effective usage of techniques
  • Work with all requirements types throughout the whole life cycle: from the idea to the acceptance and maintenance. Ensure requirements quality on the project
  • Model requirements by using the most applicable notation according to the project needs
  • Define Information Architecture for project documentation within the project
  • Define or contribute to the solution roadmap definition
  • Define and manage the solution scope to avoid scope creep
  • Manage the backlog: from the definition of “how” to its execution, perform backlog prioritization and refinement
  • Define Change management procedure
  • Collaborate closely with the development team
  • Ensure requirements quality on the project
  • Facilitate Agile ceremonies according to the chosen development methodology and ensure their effectiveness
  • Define Business Analysis approaches and processes from scratch and implement ongoing improvements to the existing ones

Requirements

We know that sometimes, you can’t tick every box. We would still love to hear from you if you think you’re a good fit!

  • 5-8 years of overall experience in business analysis space with a strong focus on financial services industry
  • Experience of working on Core banking applications for at least 5 plus years
  • Hands on FIS Profile Core banking experience
  • Solid experience in UML and BPMN modeling (and ability to adjust modeling approach according to the project context)
  • Proven ability to work with different groups of stakeholders along with experience in setting up stakeholder management approach
  • Comprehensive experience in setting up Business Analysis processes and approaches (in elicitation, decomposition, modeling, documentation, traceability, prioritization, and change management)
  • Vast experience in setting up requirements life cycle management
  • High proficiency in requirements documentation, its structure definition, and templates creation
  • Advanced knowledge of how to manage a solution roadmap and experience in its definition (or contribution, at least)
  • Expertise in product scope management and backlog management
  • Solid knowledge of Business analysis techniques and best practices
  • Experienced and flexible Agile practitioner focused on delivering value
  • Able to express ideas, thoughts, and questions simply, concisely, and in a structured way
  • Accountable for the own scope of work and follow the “said and done” principle
  • Eager to learn and grow: curios, keen to constant self-development
  • Proactive in efforts to deliver results according to expectations, as well as keen to suggest new ideas, looking for alternative solutions
  • Capable of assessing tasks of less experienced colleagues and providing constructive feedback

Desirable

  • Experience in Pre-sales, Discovery phases: having ownership of BA tasks
  • Technical knowledge and skills:
    • Solid knowledge of major architectural types
    • Practical experience in working with main database types and writing queries

What's in it for you

  •  Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
  • Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy license, language courses and company- paid certifications
  • Possibility to strategically influence the development of a large-scale international business
  • Health insurance for the employees and their family members, 401k plan
  • Ciklum’s commitment to providing support to your professional growth within the organization

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