Associate Principal, Business Analysis

A prestigious financial firm is on the search for an Associate Principal, Business Analysis. This person will help with design and support of scrum teams and collaborate with the UI/UX design. They will support Agile software development teams. They will need experience in event driven applications, streaming and batch analytics technologies. Technologies needed are Jira, Visio, Figma, Tableau, AWS, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams.
• Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth understanding of current state (ie, Legacy system) and future state.
• Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design.
• Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals.
• Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories.
• Provide requirement and design support to scrum team.
• Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams.
• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.
• Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories.
• Assists in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and documentation to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the enterprise.

Qualifications:

• Experience in Agile and software development.
• 5-8 years of experience in business system analysis or related experience
• Preferred business experience in clearinghouse activities.
• Experience using Confluence and Jira.
• Proficient in process modelling tools such as Visio.

Technical Skills:

• Experience in event driven applications, streaming and batch analytics technologies.
• Experience in cloud technologies; experience working with AWS a plus.
• Experience in different data management and visualization tools (SQL, Figma, Tableau, Business Objects, etc.)
• Experience and/or vested interest in complex data analytics supported by python and R.

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree required. MBA/MS is a plus.
• CCBA, CBAP, AAC, and/or any related certification is a plus.