Position: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Luxoft
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

The projects are technically challenging in an environment that is very engaging.

The role is a Business, Data and Technical Analysis focused role supporting Investment Solutions Technology.

The individual will be responsible for assisting in the successful delivery of the highest priority portfolio of work for our client, to build out a next generation of Index Products (Index ReFactoring ‘IRF’). The programme the individual will be working on within the IRP Portfolio is the Distribution workstream, building a new strategic, Cloud based Index Platform and enabling all Distribution channels (Feed, API, Reporting) to distribute Index and related data to all clients globally. This is a multi-year, complex programme requiring individuals with previous experience of working on larger scale, high priority programmes.

The role requires accurate and detailed analysis of business requirements into data and technical requirements which can be delivered effectively by development teams (Agile Scrum). The individual will work with Product Owners and Business Leads to capture and elaborate requirements and will work closely with Technical Architects, Development Leads across several tech departments and Delivery Management to translate requirements into actionable delivery.

This is a very exciting opportunity to work with high performing teams on large scale, strategic initiatives to create best in breed solutions for the IRP Portfolio.
Responsibilities:
• Working with the Business and Technology Leadership to deliver business initiatives on time and within budget by understanding the business need and responding with the necessary functional, systems and data requirements analysis.
• Analysis, elicitation, presentation, validation and socialisation of requirements to business and technology stakeholders to ensure all stakeholders have a common understanding of the requirements and the goals/objectives of what needs to be delivered to the business.
• Producing a wide range of artifacts to support strategic delivery of technical solutions and ways of operation such as user journeys, data flows, data catalogues, data feed inventories, data dictionaries, data mapping documentation, data domain and interface specifications and, API and bulk feed specifications.
• Building and maintaining effective, collaborative, credible working relationships and active communication channels with all stakeholders. Be the conduit of information between different teams and responding to questions from any stakeholder credibly and lead workshops with credibility.
• Performing analysis on existing platforms and databases/sources related to the initiative(s) to collaborate effectively with Architects and Technical Leads in-house and from 3rd parties, to collaborate on solution options to meet the business requirements.
• Maintaining a business Outcomes backlog, breaking down Outcomes into high-level epics and stories, providing content during analysis, contributing to the elaboration & acceptance criteria of epics and stories, and leading communication of the epics and stories to the delivery team(s).
• Actively resolve/mitigate/escalate risks/issues/events which may affect strategic delivery and ensuring the expectations by internal and external stakeholders are managed accordingly.
• Providing accurate business correspondence and documentation that is coherent, factually and grammatically correct, effective, professional and engaging at any level of the organisation.
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Strong experience in Data Analysis, Modelling, Domain Specification/Design/Mapping, Data Transformation including Business Transformation, APIs and Data Exchange patterns
• Deep understanding of how data is sourced, collected, transformed, validated, managed, used, governed and controlled within a data centric organisation. Ability to utilise SQL to query database tables and GraphQL as required.
• Experience in the financial domain/capital markets/investment banking.
• Knowledge of Company reference and financial data and related market data; understanding of sustainable investment data and investment strategies such as ESG
• Good working experience with Agile and Scrum, with solid, proven experience of performing business analysis activities in a scalable Agile environment.
• Ability to liaise with solution architects and technical leads, development and functional testing stakeholders, both in-house and from 3rd parties to ensure the business need and related requirements are well understood.
• Strong and proven ‘soft’ skills with the ability to communicate requirements in a clear, accurate, concise, engaging and thorough manner to stakeholders across the board.
• Solid Microsoft Office, document management (e.g. Teams), Visio, Jira and Confluence.
• Articulate, creative, energetic person who is comfortable switching between the ‘big picture’ view and low-level detail
• Excellent attention to detail with the ability to think strategically to solve business problems
• Outstanding written and oral communications as well as interpersonal skills; ability to explain technical detail to business facing stakeholders and business change detail to technical facing stakeholders
• Ability to establish credibility and build strong, confident, collaborative relationships with business and technology stakeholders including external parties, at all levels of the organisation
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines without compromising quality
• Results driven, self-motivated, problem solving, and solutions oriented; takes pride in his/her work
• Demonstrates a can-do attitude, exhibits self-confidence, leadership and adaptability to business change
• Excellent organisational, negotiation, presentation and time management skills; ability to manage business expectations
• Ability to keep abreast of and understand technology trends, see how they impact your roadmap, and how they drive innovation

English: C1 Advanced