What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Business Analyst position at Intercontinental Exchange?
Job Purpose
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to be part of the technology organization based in our Atlanta office. The Lead Business Analyst will collaborate with ICE Data Product, Engineering, Quantitative, Operations and QA teams to perform analysis for development of products to achieve key growth objectives. The Lead Business Analyst analyzes users' business needs to develop effective and creative solutions within time constraints using but not limited to SQL, Visio and Programming technologies. Further, the Lead Business Analyst will manage all phases of the project life cycle including developing requirements and collaborating with the engineering teams to produce technical design specifications, test plans and product release artifacts.
Responsibilities
- Prior experience in business analysis and work as a liaison between Business and Technology teams as part of the SDLC process
- Elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for business processes, content and functionality from users
- Suggest business workflow and recommend improvements and efficiencies to new and existing products and features
- Serve as subject matter expert for development on reference data and pricing for different asset classes such as Fixed Income, Equity, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Funds
- Assist the production support development group with client questions or issues across several products
- Formulate testing strategies and assist users and developers in testing of key deliverables
- Train and mentor other business analyst teammates
- Review technical specs of business analysts on the team
Knowledge and Experience
- Master's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance, Business Administration (M.B.A) or a related discipline preferred; or 5 or more years of applied experience as a Business Analyst in a Software Engineering/Application Development group
- Experience in maintaining data, defining operational processes and partnering across product, operations and development groups
- Experience working within an integrated technology environment - using relational databases, endpoints/APIs and UIs to read and analyze data
- Experience with documenting business and system requirements including documentation of comprehensive use-cases and working within iterative software development environments
- Experience with Front, Middle or Back-Office workflows and products in the Capital Markets is a plus
- Expert using MS products including Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint
- Strong SQL skills; knowledge of a programming language such as C , Java or Python is a plus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- General technical background required (understanding of principals and key practices across the SDLC)
Schedule
This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability or veteran status, or other protected status.
Intercontinental Exchange is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to diversity in its hiring and business practices. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
