42955 - Sr. Business Systems Analyst to work in a complex data warehousing environment for a banking client
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: Sep 19, 2022
Job End Date: Mar 18, 2023
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 123429
Location: Toronto
Position Title: Sr. Business Systems Analyst
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Location: remote for now
Must haves:
• Strong experience with business system analysis in a complex data warehousing environment
• Proficient using SQL statements to query data and perform data profiling, data verifications
• Ability to do data modeling and perform data mapping
• Possesses solid business knowledge in Finance/Banking industry
• Experience with Netezza, Cloud, IPS and SSIS
Nice to have:
• CFA is an asset
Key Accountabilities:
• Identifies and documents the business partner’s functional and data requirements based on a business process description to ensure that the final deliverable coincides with the context of the business operations
• Manages and documents the translation of business needs into requirements to communicate to the project team activities, resources, and deliverables necessary to meet business objectives
• Participates in investigations, interviews, and formal or informal requirements gathering sessions to understand stakeholder needs
• Recognizes discrepancies between business needs and deliverables, when reviewing and validating requirements, and communicates these discrepancies to stakeholders to ensure that they understand and either accept these discrepancies or identify a need to change project direction
• Analyses technical problems for senior management development teams, and business partners in order to identify the technical approach and solution options for the given problem; this includes collaborating with project teams to resolve technical road-blocks, performing solution proof-of-concept (POC), and examining third party product offerings
• Provides application design and development costing estimates to senior management that are used in determining business initiative feasibility and priorities, and/or used by the bank’s IT Project Managers for project planning
• Reviews project documents (e.g., High Level Requirements Document [HLRD], High Level System Design Documents [HLSD], and application code) received from other Technical Specialists, Business Technical Specialists, and Project Managers to ensure quality, completeness, and adherence to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) documentation standards, as well as identifies synergies between project initiatives in order ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process
• Provides technical and application expertise to senior management and project teams, including the areas of governance methodologies and processes, for purposes of ensuring the architecture and applications are consistent with the design framework, Enterprise/industry standards, and the strategic direction
• Provides technical coaching to team members on design patterns, development processes, and application functions in order to improve their technical skills
• Manages operational aspects of governance forums to ensure meeting productivity
• Provides analytical support and insights
Leadership:
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the capability of the technology organization, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across technology.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning
• Leading new project initiatives by providing sizing and work with PM, developers, QAs to make sure projects are delivered on time, on budget
Duration: 6 months with possible extension
Location: remote for now
Must haves:
• Strong experience with business system analysis in a complex data warehousing environment
• Proficient using SQL statements to query data and perform data profiling, data verifications
• Ability to do data modeling and perform data mapping
• Possesses solid business knowledge in Finance/Banking industry
• Experience with Netezza, Cloud, IPS and SSIS
Nice to have:
• CFA is an asset
Key Accountabilities:
• Identifies and documents the business partner’s functional and data requirements based on a business process description to ensure that the final deliverable coincides with the context of the business operations
• Manages and documents the translation of business needs into requirements to communicate to the project team activities, resources, and deliverables necessary to meet business objectives
• Participates in investigations, interviews, and formal or informal requirements gathering sessions to understand stakeholder needs
• Recognizes discrepancies between business needs and deliverables, when reviewing and validating requirements, and communicates these discrepancies to stakeholders to ensure that they understand and either accept these discrepancies or identify a need to change project direction
• Analyses technical problems for senior management development teams, and business partners in order to identify the technical approach and solution options for the given problem; this includes collaborating with project teams to resolve technical road-blocks, performing solution proof-of-concept (POC), and examining third party product offerings
• Provides application design and development costing estimates to senior management that are used in determining business initiative feasibility and priorities, and/or used by the bank’s IT Project Managers for project planning
• Reviews project documents (e.g., High Level Requirements Document [HLRD], High Level System Design Documents [HLSD], and application code) received from other Technical Specialists, Business Technical Specialists, and Project Managers to ensure quality, completeness, and adherence to Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) documentation standards, as well as identifies synergies between project initiatives in order ensure the efficiency and effectiveness of the development process
• Provides technical and application expertise to senior management and project teams, including the areas of governance methodologies and processes, for purposes of ensuring the architecture and applications are consistent with the design framework, Enterprise/industry standards, and the strategic direction
• Provides technical coaching to team members on design patterns, development processes, and application functions in order to improve their technical skills
• Manages operational aspects of governance forums to ensure meeting productivity
• Provides analytical support and insights
Leadership:
• Identifies opportunities to strengthen the capability of the technology organization, such as: sharing expertise to promote technical development, mentoring employees, building communities of practice and networks across technology.
• Stays abreast of industry technical and business trends through participation in professional associations, practice communities & individual learning
• Leading new project initiatives by providing sizing and work with PM, developers, QAs to make sure projects are delivered on time, on budget
