Role Overview
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The Technical Business Analyst (TBA) will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with the TP ICAP Business, Corporate and Technology teams.
The TBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories. The TBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems. The TBA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.
Role Responsibilities:
Requirements Analysis and Capture, Prioritisation, Estimation, SDLC and Delivery
1. Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business priorities
2. Help the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification in order to deploy regularly to production
3. Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release
4. Be capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimation
5. Be responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisation
6. Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation
7. Be proactive in supporting the team’s engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs
8. Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge
9. Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business products
10. Challenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issues
11. Ensure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC
Communication and Leadership
12. Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use cases
13. Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice
14. Support members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deployment
15. Collaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and delivery
16. Be a liaison between the business units, technology and support teams
17. Be supportive of other team members where possible and seek opportunities to mentor, and share experience and domain knowledge with other team members
18. Seek to become a subject matter expert for the business areas that are interfaced into and be able to support the wider team in their acquisition of knowledge in the general domain and in specific business products
Change, Risk and Issue Management
19. Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate
20. Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions
21. Share complex business needs or issues with other team members and influence their decision making where necessary
22. Ensure business risks are fully communicated and understood
23. Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements
Experience / Competences:
Education/Professional Qualifications
24. Degree or equivalent industry experience
Experience
25. Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems
26. Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems
27. Enterprise system experience
28. Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role
Desirable criteria
Education/Professional Qualifications
29. Relevant Masters or higher degree
Experience
30. Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams
31. Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance
32. Experience of regulatory driven projects
33. Experience of mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth and advancement
34. Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams
35. Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products
36. Financial sector experience
37. Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery
38. Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach
39. Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills
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