Job Description
I have a full time opportunity for a VP Level - Technical Business Analyst to join one of our top tier investment organizations in Midtown Manhattan. The Technical Business Analyst will be responsible for helping to design, develop, and deploy business-facing technology solutions across the Firm. The role requires a solid understanding of business requirements documentation and software development processes. This position will work closely with the business technology team in a highly collaborative manner to interface with the internal teams as well as key stakeholder groups.
This will be a hybrid opportunity, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote in Midtown.
Responsibilities:
- Be part of a business technology team responsible for owning and executing delivery of custom solutions that are uniquely tailored to the business' needs.
- Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand the business objectives and functional requirements necessary to perform their roles efficiently and effectively.
- Elicit, capture and interpret business problems from multiple perspectives; present implications and recommendations with strategic perspective, influencing project parameters and outcomes.
- Perform requirements gathering, solution design, functionality development, user acceptance testing, training, and deployment.
- Develop requirements, write user stories, and design user interfaces of any new functionality that can be understood and built by the development team.
- Understand the data model and architecture, and define data structures to enable new system functionality.
- Evaluate the suitability of existing/potential tools to fulfill business needs.
- Closely collaborate with Business Management, Information Technology, and outside vendors to develop and implement new applications and tools for use by the business.
Qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Business Analysis, Software Development, Project Management, and Data Management skillset.
- Experience translating business needs into detailed technical specifications for application development.
- High level understanding of code to collaborate with developers to design new solutions and provide support. First-hand knowledge of development is beneficial.
- Familiar with data model management processes and best practices.
- Experience with User Acceptance Testing and quality assurance.
- Strong knowledge of software development and implementation/deployment lifecycle and best practices.
- Excellent communication skills and demonstrated command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation.
- Excellent organization and documentations skills, with the ability to design and facilitate a group process, elicit contributions, stimulate focused discussions and achieve a desired outcome; consensus builder.
- Hands-on experience with on-premise and cloud-based enterprise systems; Knowledge of how to design, manage, and integrate these systems to support current and future business needs.
- Successful candidates will be self-motivated with a strong desire to contribute to the success of the department and company.
- Advisory investment banking technology relevant experience is a plus
- Experience with Agile Development methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree or Masters is preferred.
Lori Sklarski
Senior Technical Recruiter
PRI Technology
P: 973.732.5454 x27
C: 973.432.9968
F: 973.732.5456
Lori.sklarski@pritechnology.com
www.pritechnology.com