Title: 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
Drive or participate in high-level E2E solutioning and estimations by working closely with business and software architects and client application teams
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

ScotiaTech is a business unit within ScotiaGBS, a Scotiabank Group company located in Bogota, Colombia. The ScotiaTech hub was created to support different technology systems and processes of the Bank. We offer an inclusive, positive work environment, and competitive benefits.

At ScotiaTech, we value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings and are committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone. Candidates must apply directly online to be considered for this role. We thank all applicants for their interest in a career at ScotiaTech; however, only those candidates who are selected for an interview will be contacted.

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