Senior Business Analyst (Boston-based, partial onsite)
Boston, MA
Syrinx Consulting Boston, MA 6-month contract-to-hire Business Systems Analyst (AEM Experience Required)
The Senior Business Systems Analyst helps develop systems technology projects that address the business needs of the equity, quant and fixed income departments as well as the front, middle and back office areas that support the investment process at this client. This is done primarily by leveraging the vast capabilities of the Adobe Experience Cloud suite of products, with particular focus on Adobe Experience Manger (AEM).
The Senior BSA will independently meet with project stakeholders and business partners at all levels of the organization to elicit and gather business requirements. They develop and maintain formal specifications that clearly outline the key requirements. They follow the client’s system development life cycle while working to release projects and maintenance items for the benefit of our clients and internal business partners. Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a business or technology related field.
Minimum of three to five years’ experience in the financial services industry.
Experienced in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) from an authoring, publishing, workflows, tagging, and meta data management point of view.
Familiarity with other Adobe suite products such as Target, Analytics, Marketo, Campaign, Workfront
Experience working as a fully functioning member of an Agile scrum team
Experience with Jira and Confluence is preferred, but not required
Strong technical skills including a solid understanding of underlying relevant technical architecture and investment business processes.
Proven ability to efficiently utilize resources and communicate with others, both verbally and in writing.
Project management skills, proven analytical skills and a demonstrated ability to make independent decisions.
An in-¬depth understanding of systems development lifecycle. Ability to perform detailed analysis on these systems at all phases of the project lifecycle.
Ability to consider the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future state business environment.
Proven ability to develop creative solutions to meet business needs.
Skilled at running SQL queries to analyze / troubleshoot issues with data
Principal Responsibilities:
Performs analysis of business activities to determine business requirements. Works with investment and operations business users to understand and define needs above and beyond requirements provided by the business. Converts business requirements into functional specifications. Works closely with business users, QA, developers, and other technology professionals to ensure that project deliverables are completed on time and within budget.
Acts as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the technology organization to ensure proper implementation of requirements within the expected timetable. Communicates any material modifications of business requirements to business stakeholders.
Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives based on both user needs and an understanding of investment and operations systems and industry requirements.
Collaborates with the QA team in developing high level test plans. Reviews test cases developed by the QA team. Works with automated testing team when needed for performance/load testing as well as automated regression testing.
Works to ensure a positive end product for business stakeholders by overseeing the implementation of new software. Creates and maintains proper training materials and business documentation.
Follow the client’s Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), ensuring that all steps of the process have been followed prior to releasing any code. The clients’ job descriptions reflect management’s assignment of essential functions, which may be subject to change at any time due to constantly changing business needs.
Provides application and production support as needed for the investment departments and systems.