Business Systems Analyst

Role : Business Systems Analyst

Duration : 6+ months

Location : Remote (EST)

Open to Sponsorship : Yes

Must Haves : Experience working on projects supporting Retirement Plans preferably for a Wealth Management or Financial Services client, Jira and Rally

Details :

• Detailed understanding and knowledge of the retirement industry, as well as detailed understanding and knowledge of business operations, processes, and procedures. Ability to utilize that knowledge to inform trade-off decisions, identify edge-cases and scenarios that need to be defined for the scrum team, and aid in troubleshooting.
• Strong documentation organization skills. Ability to strategize what documentation to create for a scenario. Ability to gather information from multiple sources and document it in a way that is clearly understood by a cross-functional group of partners and stakeholders. Excellent written communication skills.
• Effective communicator, able to bridge knowledge and requirements gaps amongst teams.
• strong sense of curiosity and the ability to dig into complex details to figure out how each piece of functionality works, including the business logic required to support the functionality.
• nalytical Skills : Ability to guide others as a functional subject matter expert and to use deep analytical experience to propose best path forward
• Strong collaborator - ability to build effective partnerships with business, digital, and technology partners and stakeholders.
• Possess the ability to maintain focus and drive results in all business cycles and environments.
• Demonstrate adaptability when projects need to deviate from original plans or shift direction based on changing needs and priorities.
• Be a great listener - Understand the value of listening to client needs and understand the deeper underlying problem that needs to be addressed.
• Servant Leadership - Able to garner respect from your Scrum team(s), lead and demonstrate value-add principles, and willing and able to get your hands dirty to get the job done.
• ttitude of transparency - Desire and ability to bring disclosure and transparency to the Scrum team and grow trust between the business and development.
• Conflict resolution - Able to facilitate discussion of issues, different approaches, alternatives, and effectively resolve them promptly.
• Fully educated and conversant on the Scrum process according to the Scrum Guide and can apply their understanding in practical terms.
• thorough understanding and appreciation for Agile values and principles.
• Thorough understanding of and proven ability to :
• Write user stories and acceptance criteri
• Split large stories into smaller stories
• Groom the backlog
• Conduct Release planning
• Conduct Sprint planning
• Navigate the Sprint review activities
• Possess a strong grasp of software development and technology; Utilize advanced BSA skills and techniques.
• Self-directed and own work assignments; Ability to accomplish work without direction and guidance.
• Experience with Retirement Plans, Experience in a Scaled Agile framework
• Prior experience using Jira and Rally