Business Analyst with Trading - W2 only

Position: Business Analyst

Location: Chicago, IL/ Charlotte, NC (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 months

Technical Analyst

This role is responsible for capturing and supporting delivery of business and/or system requirements (based on specialization) to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities include working with stakeholders to understand their needs, capture their requirements, perform impact analysis, and then working closely with the Development Team(s) to refine the requirements into specifications that can be executed by the team. Individuals in this role possess a working knowledge of the business/technical domain and the main applications within that domain.



Responsibilities Include:

• Capturing and refining business and/or system requirements.


• Works with stakeholders to understand their needs, analyze problems, and capture their requirements, and then working closely with the Development Team to refine the requirement into specifications that can be executed by the team.


• Possess a working knowledge of the business and/or technical domain based on their specialization.


• Leverages experience and understanding of stakeholder needs to help create a solution, envisions the solution to solve a problem (manual or through software).


• Performs Cost/Benefit Analysis to align the technology to business strategy.


• Gathers & catalogs functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for stakeholder requests.


• Determines the impact of modifications and enhancements on the application.


• Acts as the product(s) subject matter expert to support scope and requirement decisions.


• Ensures changes to the application are compliant with bank standards and policies.


• Supports Release activities and submits required paperwork


• Documents process, procedures and workflows associated with applications.


• Leads or participate in continuous improvement efforts.


• Building expertise in creating, analyzing, and improving processes.


• Creates, maintains and presents training materials for end-users

Required Skills

• 5 years of experience in a technology delivery team as a Business Analyst or Project Manager


• Required experience with delivery of systems/applications in the Agile environment, including various Agile ceremonies such as PI planning and retrospectives.


• Candidate must be proven as a confident and creative problem-solver who can drive interaction with resources as well as working independently to research and resolve issues.


• Candidate must be a self-starter, able to work independently, with a willingness to learn without being reluctant to ask questions of either business or technology partners.


• Hands on experience in delivering technical solutions, including the coordination of end-to-end project deliveries from requirement gathering through testing


• Requirements gathering into Business Requirements Documents, wireframes, epic and story writing, flow diagrams, data mapping, test plans, use cases and scenarios


• Demonstrable experience providing subject matter expertise within the technical (and some business) domain to support scope and requirement decisions.


• Experience agile development teams comprised of developers, scrum masters, analysts, product owners, testers


• Experience with tools such as JIRA, SharePoint, WIKI, ALM for requirements and SDLC, knowledge sharing and documentation of requirements, and issue tracking


• Candidate needs to be a strong communicator with great communication skills


• Learning and speaking to the technical components and systems in order to drive project delivery for multiple concurrent projects


• Capturing and supporting delivery of business and/or system requirements to accomplish business goals


• Working with stakeholders to understand their needs, capture their requirements, perform impact analysis


• Working closely with multiple Development Teams to refine the requirements into specifications that can be executed by the team


• Working across different development teams to manage releases into different environments, including production


• Ensuring there is a full traceability from requirements to implementation to testing to production releases and post-production validation

Desired Job Skills:

• Candidates must have excellent communication and inter-personal skills to engage and influence teams across multiple organizations.


• Agile - Business Analyst


• SDLC knowledge


• Technical Business Analysis - Data Analysis


• Technical Business Analysis - Trade