Project Manager / Business Analyst (Financial Services)

Job Title: Project Manager/Business Analyst

Job Location: Columbus, OH, 43215 – (Onsite)

Contract Duration: 12 Months of Contract role

Pay rate: $63/hr on W2

Eligibility: US Citizens or GC holders only

PM/BA combination – software focused

PM – 3 Plus year of acting working as PM

BA – 3 plus years eliciting requirements, documenting using JIRA, Confluence

BS Degree Required

Financial Services or Automotive required

Fortune 500 experience a MUST

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree.

3 - 5 years IT experience.

2 - 3 years project management.

Strong knowledge of common concepts and processes in project delivery.

Familiarity with financial services lease and loan applications.

Experience in a multi-location, international environment.

Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to sell complex topics with members of management at all levels.

Financial Services Required Learning Courses:

UDAAP.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act.

Preferred:

1 - 2 years Financial Services industry.

Responsibilities:

• Executing the Business Analyst role for assigned technical product(s), application(s) or projects, within the context of an agile/DevOps delivery model.
• Extend responsibilities to take on Project Management roles and Operations topics and may also fill the Agile Scrum Master role.

Business Analysis: Execute the Business Analyst Agile Role by:

• Building a strong understanding of the assigned business processes, functions, roles and rules.
• Owning the functional solution– the big picture story – of the initiative being delivered.
• Collaborating with the Business to elicit requirements, define acceptance criteria, and maintain a prioritized product backlog.
• Creating user stories to the level of granularity required by the team.
• Clarifying inconsistencies and resolving issues to bridge the gap between user expectations and the delivered product.
• Testing deliverables against a user story’s acceptance criteria to validate that the delivered product meets the business goals.

Project Management: Lead the activities of assigned projects by:

• Utilizing ITPM processes to direct the execution of IT related projects.
• Coordinating business, IT and provider resources to ensure on-time delivery of high-quality, cost-efficient projects.
• Executing appropriate ITPM delivery tasks, activities and deliverables as necessary to ensure project success.
• Managing key project management processes and artifacts to ensure successful project delivery.

Scrum Master: Execute or support the Scrum Master Agile Role by:

• Leading the Agile team in the adoption and execution of Agile processes.
• Planning and facilitating key Agile events including daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings.
• Collaborating with the Product Owner to manage the Product backlog.
• Clearing obstacles and enabling the efforts of the scrum team.

Operations and Support: Support the objectives of the DevOps team by:

• Steering providers in the execution of support tasks.
• Resolving escalated support topics.
• Planning and executing upgrades and replacements to ensure that hardware and software components remain supported.
• Executing ITSM/ITIL processes to ensure ongoing stable operations and alignment with SLAs.

Coordination and Administration: Support efficient work processes by:

• Coordinating day to day activities with team members.
• Leading and mentoring other team members as appropriate.
• Coordinating release planning and off-cycle efforts.
• Resolving or escalating risks and issues.
• Executing resource planning and time tracking processes.
• Impact on innovations and changes.