Description:
We at Raise are hiring a Business Analyst - IT - Advanced for one of our top clients. After establishing themselves as an industry leader, they’re now expanding their team to meet rising demand. We’re hiring right now; if you’re interested, apply below for your chance to join a great place to work.
Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for business and systems analysis activities on medium to large size Digital projects.
- The role is responsible for execution of all aspects of requirements delivery- planning, elicitation, analysis and documentation, management, and support - for changes to Business Areas and Technology.
Common Agile BA Activities
- Product Backlog Management: Identify, document, and refine user stories to increase the degree of detail relating to acceptance criteria, assumptions, constraints, dependencies. Identify Business Rules and Data Elements associated with the user stories.
- Create and maintain Requirements repository – Business rules, API’s, NFR’s, Data requirements, etc.
- Lead and facilitate collaborative refinement sessions with your squad (tech, product and design team) to gather feedback and ensure common understanding of requirements
- Understanding of Current State: Understand current state from a business perspective and to a lesser degree, from a technical perspective. Operational impacts will be understood in coordination with the Product Owner and Journey Operations Lead.
- Assist Product Owner in decomposing Epics in to User Stories
- Build and maintain a repository of reusable requirements documentation in Confluence to support future initiatives, following the enterprise standards
- Assist Product Owner’s in managing risks, assumptions and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties
- Provide guidance and support to build the capabilities of the junior BAs and participate in the BA Chapters, encouraging knowledge sharing and learning across the entire BA practice
- Sprint admin: Digital maintenance of sprint activities and user stories in JIRA
Must-have Skills
- 6+ years of experience as a BA/BSA
- 2+ years of experience on Agile projects
- Experience with Mobile and Online banking projects
- Proven ability to gather Business requirements and Systems requirements independently
- Excellent attention to detail, analytical thinking, and gap analysis
- Demonstrated experience with user stories, business and systems specifications, business context diagrams and business process maps
- Experience working on large projects over $2 million
- Recent Banking experience
- Excellent communication skills required; will be working with BU stakeholders and IT stakeholders
- Excellent collaboration skills, and highly adaptable
- Strong knowledge of Requirements methodology (planning, elicitation, documentation)
- Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Previous client Experience