Senior Digital Banking Business Systems Analyst with end-to-end UI and API experience to work on a new web application project- 35181

Senior Digital Banking Business Systems Analyst with end-to-end UI and API experience to work on a new web application project- 35181

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 1-2 days/week (Wednesdays, other day is TBD/flexible)

Contract Duration: 6 months (Possibility of extension)

Schedule Hours: 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: Canadian Digital Banking Engineering - Core - Web Applications team that supports online banking services; app allows customers to log in and use self-service features - web solutions team
• Project: NDA project - digital banking web application for web platform - building new and services in the web app for customers to use self-service features
• As a Business Systems Analyst, you will be the bridge between our business partners and our developer's engineers, responsible for delivering exciting products in the Digital Banking Unit. We are investing heavily in order to become the leader in digital banking space, and we are launching multiple initiatives to do so. You will have a unique chance to help one of the fastest-growing business units to become a leader. You will help scale, enable, and drive online & mobile development excellence as our team continues to deliver innovative solutions to Scotia customers.

Typical Day in Role:

• Provide estimates for the incoming projects at both high level and detailed level requirements for small to medium sized projects
• In waterfall projects: you will analyze business requirements, and ensure consistent and accurate translation of requirements through all SDLC phases
• In Agile projects: you will be responsible for creating, refining and maintaining EPICs & user stories and associated deliverables such as process flow to meet development and stakeholder needs
• Facilitate requirements gathering and design sessions with multiple stakeholders to extract requirements, and turning them into use cases, user stories, sequence diagrams, cheat sheets, etc, whatever is suitable - to meet development and stakeholder needs
• Bridge the gap between business and IT, ensuring common understanding and IT/Business alignment of both functional (for business needs) and non-functional requirements (reporting, performance, interfaces, constraints, etc.)
• Facilitate problem-solving discussions and general communications between the business and IT and within IT itself
• Help improve and drive our engineering practices by providing valuable inputs and suggestions as to what works well and what can be done better
• Contribute to a collaborative team environment by information sharing and team cooperation
• Demonstrate strong personal values and a commitment to our mission and customers

Must Have Skills:

• 10+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst, preferably from FI/banking
• 7+ years’ experience with web applications and end-to-end UI flow
• 5+ years’ experience with API services and Postman
• 7+ years’ experience within an Agile environment
• 5+ years’ experience with JIRA / Confluence

Nice-To-Have Skills:

• Certified Scrum Master, PMP
• Mobile banking experience
• Experience working as a team lead, project manager, and/or architect

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field
• Agile CSM an asset
• PMI/PMP an asset

Best VS. Average Candidate: Independent BSA will be working on their own so need to be strong in all aspects (no other BSAs on project); experience with web applications and end-to-end UI flow meaning not only with back-end/integration - need to be able to understand both the front end and back end, and Architect high level experience is helpful; has recently worked on API services projects ideally within FI/banking, has used Jira and Confluence, knows how to work in and Agile framework

Candidate Review& Selection

• 1-2 Step Process - 1 hour each - MS Teams Video Interview - Camera ON
• 1st with Technical Team - technical questions, scenario based
• Potential 2nd with Hiring Manager - culture fit