Sr. Business Analyst (Payments)

As a Senior Business Analyst, become a part of a cross-functional development team working with an American bank chartered in Texas.This role has a hybrid mode with an expectation to visit the client in San Antonio 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Plan, estimate, and perform Business Analysis activities within all SDLC stages
• Facilitate payment modernization and support platform migrations for a successful go live
• Ability to support banks payments capabilities post go live with the new services and features made available
• Support Testing across SIT and UAT phases
• Ensure stakeholders' engagement and effective collaboration
• Define business needs and objectives
• Define the most applicable elicitation approach and use appropriate techniques and ensure effective usage of techniques
• Work with all requirements types throughout the whole life cycle: from the idea to the acceptance and maintenance. Ensure requirements quality on the project
• Model requirements by using the most applicable notation according to the project needs
• Define Information Architecture for project documentation within the project
• Define or contribute to the solution roadmap definition
• Define and manage the solution scope to avoid scope creep
• Manage the backlog: from the definition of "how" to its execution, perform backlog prioritization and refinement
• Define Change management procedure
• Collaborate closely with the development team
• Ensure requirements quality on the project
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies according to the chosen development methodology and ensure their effectiveness
• Define Business Analysis approaches and processes from scratch and implement ongoing improvements to the existing ones

Requirements

5-8 years of overall experience in business analysis space with a strong focus on financial services industry

• Experience of working on standalone payment platforms / payment modules as part of Core banking applications for at least 5 plus years
• Experience working on Check processing applications, IBM check processing system experience is desirable
• Proven ability to work with different groups of stakeholders along with experience in setting up stakeholder management approach
• Comprehensive experience in setting up Business Analysis processes and approaches (in elicitation, decomposition, modeling, documentation, traceability, prioritization, and change management)
• Vast experience in setting up requirements life cycle management
• High proficiency in requirements documentation, its structure definition, and templates creation
• Solid experience in UML and BPMN modeling (and ability to adjust modeling approach according to the project context)
• Advanced knowledge of how to manage a solution roadmap and experience in its definition (or contribution, at least)
• Expertise in product scope management and backlog management
• Solid knowledge of Business analysis techniques and best practices
• Experienced and flexible Agile practitioner focused on delivering value
• Communication is a key. You speak and write in English fluently or at least at an upper-intermediate level
• Able to express ideas, thoughts, and questions simply, concisely, and in a structured way
• Accountable for the own scope of work and follow the "said and done" principle
• Eager to learn and grow: curios, keen to constant self-development
• Proactive in efforts to deliver results according to expectations, as well as keen to suggest new ideas, looking for alternative solutions
• Capable of assessing tasks of less experienced colleagues and providing constructive feedback

Desirable

• Experience in Pre-sales, Discovery phases: having ownership of BA tasks
• Technical knowledge and skills:
  • Solid knowledge of major architectural types

Practical experience in working with main database types and writing queries