Business Analyst Specialist

Requisition ID: 246439

Thanks for your interest in ScotiaTech, Scotiabank's new and innovative Technology hub in Bogota.

Join a purpose driven winning team that promotes creativity and innovation in a fast-paced environment, where we’re always committed to results, in an inclusive, diverse, and high-performing culture.

**Purpose**

Contributes to the overall success of the Insurance Technology domain for Canadian Banking ensuring specific individual goals, plans, initiatives are executed / delivered in support of the team’s business strategies and objectives. Ensure all activities conducted are in compliance with governing regulations, internal policies and procedures.

**Accountabilities**
- Work with Customer Communications Composition stakeholders (business clients and internal Technology Teams) to gather requirements from business units and translate requirements to programmers and developers
- Act as the bridge between multiple parties including: our business, control functions, technology partners and our engineering teams ((agile, scrum team, QA, product owner, developers), responsible for delivering exciting products for Canadian Banking Technology - Customer Communications Composition Team. The Business Analysis Specialist will be involved in both the project discovery and execution phases
- Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements and turn them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, etc. to meet development and stakeholder needs
- Write user stories on JIRA and document artifacts through Confluence
- Perform Data Mapping Analysis to migrate data and functions from current to target state systems
- Perform user story mapping, create user journeys
- Create, refine and maintain the product backlog and associated deliverables; release backlog with forecasted delivery timelines
- Support project delivery by providing clarifications on scope and requirements as needed
- Analyze and develop technical requirements based on solution documentation
- Translate complex problems and challenges into viable technical options and recommendations
- Influence business and engineering decisions with solid understanding of the banking systems and technical expertise
- Liaisons with external vendors, product users, operations staff, technical support groups and other development teams in all phases of development project activities and production support activities
- Demonstrates an informed knowledge of business functions to resolve problems and capitalize on improvement opportunities
- Assists to help execute end to end testing functions (creating test scripts, test cases and executing test cases/scripts), where required, to assist the project team
- Supports one or more highly complex business processes
- Works on multiple projects as a project team member
- Working in an Agile/Scrum environment using Kanban methodology
- Ensure integrity of the business and technical requirements in the end-to-end customer journey
- Champions a customer focused culture to deepen client relationships and leverage broader Bank relationships, systems and knowledge

**Must Have**
- Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science or technical equivalent
- 3+ years’ Business Technical/System Analyst experience; creating BSA artifacts - user stories, sequence diagrams, data mapping, etc
- 3+ years' configuration/support experience with OpenText Exstream
- 3+ years’ experience with Data Modeling, Data Mapping and creating Data Dictionaries
- Agile Scrum experience - demonstrated understanding of Agile concepts, agile estimations and ceremonies
- Combined experience JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS office suite or equivalent tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain complex information for both technical and non-technical audience and to influence decision making across stakeholders; ability to distil complex business requirements into agile user stories and work in close collaboration with Product Owner, Agile Team and other stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to work with ambiguity, ask the right questions and make decisions under pressure.
- Team player who enjoys collaborating with, learning from, and coaching others so we all become better
- Having an agile mindset and being able to adapt to a dynamic environment with changing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and client relation skills
- Excellent organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple concurrent complex initiatives
- Experience with test preparation and test execution

**Nice-To-Have Skills**:

- Experience producing Swimlane Diagrams and User Journeys
- Experience for an end-to-end delivery, implementation, or digital transformation project
- Financial software development organization experience

Location(s): Colombia : Bogota : Bogota

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