Senior Business Analyst

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DESCRIPTION
Our customer exposes an API for other businesses to be able to access risks associated with a person, e.g. understand their credit score. Behind the scene there is sophisticated decisioning system and large data volumes. Currently back-end of this API has number of legacy versions, serving hundreds of clients, with individual installations for most clients.

We are looking for a mature Systems/Business Analyst who will acquire and evolve hands-on project-specific analytical approach. With this knowledge, he/she should ramp up, run and supervise offshore project analytical competency.

The project is to discover and migrate data & business rules from IBM mainframe to Google Cloud Platform. This is crucial for the market-leading US national credit reporting agency.
Responsibilities

• Design data-driven case analysis of legacy software based on info from customer SMEs
• Be able to transform low-level pseudo code to human-readable business rules
• Ramp-up and maintain offshore systems analysts' competency
• Coordinate analysts' effort in:
  • managing relevant workload
  • keeping the necessary and consistent level of detail
  • maintaining traceability between input/output artifacts
  • enriching and maintaining competency knowledgebase
  • adhering to strict security standards of the Customer

Requirements

• 3+ years' experience of business analysis in software development projects
• Experience in Computer Science or other technical background
• Proven experience of Systems/Business analyst on a big legacy system
• Domain knowledge of US Consumer Credit Reports
• Strong knowledge of Atlassian Confluence and Jira
• Good understanding of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe frameworks
• Experience of creating documentation from scratch
• Team building and conflict resolution skills
• Experience of working as a technical mentor
• Understanding of SDLC
• Experience in relational databases querying
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written skills with internal and external customers
• Ability to be detail oriented, organized, with the ability to multi-task
• Upper-Intermediate or higher English level, both spoken and written (B2+)

Nice to have

• Domain knowledge of Finance Fraud detection
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform concepts
• Big Data querying
• Python coding

We offer

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Individual career path in engineering
• Social package - medical insurance, sports
• Compensation for sick lists and regular vacations
• English classes with native speaker (certified English teachers)
• Flexible work hours

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