Middle Business Analyst for a Financial Information Company

We are currently looking for a remote Middle Business Analyst with 2+ 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.

Please note that even though you are applying for this position, you may be offered other projects to join within EPAM Anywhere.

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We accept CVs only in English.

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

• 2+ 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

We offer

• Paid time off
• Sick leave with a medical certificate (up to 30 days of paid sick leave)
• Exceptional leave (marriage, child birth, close relative death)
• Maternity leave
• Healthcare program (incl. family members)
• Wellness programs (Well-Being Academy online activities)
• EPAM Referral Program
• Special gifts (welcome package; pass-probation gift; anniversary gifts (3/5/10))
• Internal Learning Programs
• Certification opportunities