Position: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Alcor
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

The company is committed to helping Canadians become much more financially successful and secure. We are everything a traditional financial institution is not. Our vision is to revolutionize financial services for the benefit of Canadians by providing the most innovative and cost-efficient financial services online.

As a Senior BSA - Crypto Trading, you will communicate with multiple stakeholders to elicit, define, analyze, and document requirements for our cutting-edge crypto product development. You will be responsible to manage, author, and update various BA/BSA artifacts. You will adopt and practice agile methodologies for Questrade Financial Group (QFG) products and enhancements, as required.

The successful incumbent is able to effectively merge trading with technological knowledge and skills obtained through years of relevant industry experience.

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- Participate in agile Scrum/Kanban teams in the role of BSA, Scrum Master, and Team Member, as and when needed.
- Assist agile team members (i.e., designer, developer, tester, etc.) through design, coding, testing, deployment, maintenance, and support client initiatives phases.
- Conduct interviews with other subject matter experts (SME), management, and end-users to elicit, define, analyze, and document requirements for new products, projects, and their enhancements. 
- Identify options for potential solutions and assess them for client, technology, and business suitability.
 - Build and maintain a strong understanding of the organization’s new and existing...
        - Business and technology service offerings
        - Relationships and services with vendors
        - Business models and flows of data in the business

**Produce or assist with a variety of business/systems analysis artifacts including...**
- Product backlog/user stories and epics
- Business case/proposal
- Requirements documents (i.e., BRD, SRD, MRD)
- Use case documents
- Data models; current/future state flow diagrams
- Presentations for requirement/solution walkthroughs
- Ability to manage vendor deliverables associated with BSA activities
- Develop working knowledge of the system (application) or product to be tested from the perspective of the target audience (i.e., client, other user roles, etc.)
- Assist with testing, identify defects when reporting deficiencies in the system/application being tested
- Assist with the creation of design mockups and prototypes for the purpose of validating the accuracy of requirements
- Exhibit confidence and extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems

**Skills & Experience:**
- You possess deep subject matter knowledge and experience in the crypto trading industry from the perspective of a cryptocurrency dealer, exchange, or custody provider
- You have at least 7+ years of information technology and BSA experience in a variety of trading systems, back-office operations, treasury functions, securities lending, and other brokerage functions
- You have 2+ years of direct work experience with a **crypto brokerage, crypto exchange/marketplace, or crypto custody provider**
- You have a University or post-graduate degree or equivalent in computer science, IT, or business disciplines (i.e., Accounting, Finance, Economics, etc.)
- You have working experience with the book of records systems, custody systems, back-office operations systems, processes, and workflows in the crypto industry
- You have exceptional skills in facilitating meetings, documentation, and conducting interviews to elicit and write complete and detailed requirements.
- You give a commitment to requirements management practices with the ability to control project scope creep and mitigate project risks and constraints
- You have a working knowledge of application programming, database, and system design
- You are an expert at data mapping, modeling, and analysis skills and are familiar with MS Visio
- You have knowledge of SDLC, traditional vs. agile delivery, project management, development, coding, testing (QA) methodologies
- You have knowledge of writing/understanding/interpreting API documentation
- You are a CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) or relevant BA/BSA certification an asset