Business Analyst – IT

Position Title: Business Analyst – IT
Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)
Estimated Duration: 5.5 months

Story Behind the Need
Business group: Client Engineering – Microservices – team is responsible to work on microservices for mobile and web digital banking applications
Project: Instant Banking Access – provide instant banking digital access to customers, it is related to product onboarding (how new and existing customers can onboard products digitally)

Candidate Value Proposition:
The successful candidate will have the opportunity to gain valuable experience at a top 5 Canadian bank with the opportunity for extension
The candidate will be working with client Digital on the latest tech stack – an extremely fast-paced, forward-thinking, and constantly changing environment
Opportunity to work on the project at a business level and have insight and input into overall project

Typical Day in Role:
Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation
Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
Drive joint application design solutioning sessions with our architecture, development, and security
architecture teams that inform high-level estimates for large and medium-sized incoming initiatives
Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract
requirements, and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. to meet
development and stakeholder needs
Lead enterprise process engineering development across infrastructure, Security, DevOps and cryptography teams
Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables; release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business
alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (such as
reporting, performance, interfaces, and constraints.)
Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better

Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
10+ years of progressive experience as a Business Systems Analyst in a challenging IT system solution environment
5+ years of hands-on experience with REST API's and microservices
5+ years’ experience working with API documents using either Swagger or OpenAPI
4+ years’ experience creating BSA artifacts – user stories, sequence diagrams, flow, UML diagrams etc.
Recent experience from FI/banking

Nice-To-Have Skills:
Experience as a Delivery Lead or Scrum Master
Experience with system analysis on enterprise level solutions
Experience with estimating high level work efforts
5+ years of experience in an agile environment – agile/lean evangelist

Soft Skills Required:
Detail Oriented. You notice all the little details for every document/requirement/conversation that comes across you, and it drives you crazy that others cannot keep everything consistent.
Self – Motivated. You do good work, and lots of if; the drive to deliver quality work is just a part of you. You are also able to simplify complex situations and navigate ambiguity.
Communicator/Negotiator. You are great at making sure everyone's speaking the same language and are on the same page, and sometimes that involves some give and take.
Multi-tasker. You can multi-task and work on multiple initiatives at the same time.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as Engineering or Computer Science degree

Best VS. Average Candidate:
Ideal candidate is a strong BSA ideally from banking background and has senior BSA skillset, can lead and make decisions; if they have experience from client would be a huge plus as project is working on client domain specifically; Able to drive high level estimation conversation of work with architect to provide idea of how many sprints or how many workdays. Strong with APIs, microservices and API documents; able to talk through how to create sequence, flow and UML diagrams.