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lead business analyst for a financial information company

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Costa Rica, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay
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We are currently looking for a remote Lead Business Analyst with 5+ years of experience in financial reference data systems, databases, and projects to join our team.

The customer is a British-based stock exchange and financial information company. It helps companies to raise capital and investors to build their portfolios across a range of global markets.

responsibilities
  • Take a high-level project/deliverable scope from Product and/or Technology management, turn it into detailed requirements that can be actioned by the technology team, and own these requirements throughout the delivery lifecycle
    • Two key subject areas: Search Tech Modernization (migrating the Search ingest system from on-premises to AWS, which in some cases will include significant changes to the source data and therefore business logic) and Search Business deliverables (adding new content/functionality to the Search backend, to support Business needs)
      • Scale will range from very large projects (example: migrate a data source from a legacy feed format processed on-premises, to a strategic feed processed in the cloud, including mapping specifications, gap analysis, content issues, etc.) to small enhancements (example: add a new field to a dataset)
        • Liaise with stakeholders (e.g., product/technology managers, content specialists) to gather and refine requirements
          • Write detailed requirements as stories and/or larger specifications as appropriate
            • Act as product owner for these requirements, actively participating in agile ceremonies such as scrum meetings
              • Proactively work with the development team to refine and deliver stories, removing blocks and answering questions
                • Prioritize deliverables within and across projects, with input from product / technology management where needed
                  • Carry out user-acceptance testing to confirm deliverables meet requirements
                    • Assist with planning and coordinating the implementation of changes
                      • Where required assist the team with issues/queries requiring a deeper level of analysis to resolve (but note this is not a support role)
                        • Proactively conduct ad-hoc or regular meetings as required to achieve project success
                          requirements
                          • 5+ years of experience in financial reference data systems, databases and projects
                            • University degree required, in a technical or business-related field
                              • Candidates with a combination of technical/engineering and business backgrounds are preferred
                                • Strong Stakeholder Management Skills
                                  • Experience working with Technical Stakeholders
                                    • Previous experience working with BE Projects with several dependencies
                                      • Ability to implement BA process from scratch
                                        • Experience of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
                                          • Experience in analyzing and writing requirements for complex information systems/databases
                                            • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
                                              • Strong analysis and problem-solving skills along with attention to detail
                                                • Data-related skills e.g., SQL, JSON, Data testing
                                                  • Proven ability to managing multiple streams of work concurrently
                                                    • English B2+
                                                      nice to have
                                                      • Experience with Cloud Projects
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