Columbia Consulting Group
This position is for a developing professional individual contributor in Information Technology, who works under moderate supervision. Handles current and future state process diagrams and developing prototypes to facilitate/validate business requirements; as well as documenting use-cases, wireframes and functional specifications required to support business requirements for application development. Supports medium-scale projects with moderate to high complexity.
What are the applications to be supported?
SASS Tool
Wealth Management
INVESTMENTS TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ANALYST
The Investments Technology Business Analyst will contribute to the enhancement and maintenance of critical Global Investment business systems used by our clients and consultants. This Information Technology position is for an experienced and productive professional individual contributor, who works independently with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will work closely with business users and IT managers to understand, challenge and develop requirements and applied solutions using analytical skills.
The candidate’s experience with Investment systems will be used to translate business and functional requirements into more detailed technical specifications, create and maintain system documentation, and guide operational improvements across business software tools. The ability to communicate clearly using non-technical language is also expected. The candidate will also assist with general application support to resolve functional and technical issues.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
To fulfil this role for a variety of Investment applications and initiatives, the Business Analyst will:
- Partner with business teams as technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) to identify and accurately document solutions via business and systems requirements and processes; utilizing combined experience in both IT and the Investments domain.
- Facilitate and/or participate in and contribute to internal workshops and meetings to gather, understand and document business project goals, workflows, complex business needs, gaps, and opportunities. Determine how changing business needs will affect the system, product, and process.
- Be innovative and drive “outside the box” thinking. Solve difficult problems as needed through proposing insightful, knowledgeable, effective solutions. Build and use knowledge of what is happening in the industry, and in technology, to drive implementation of critical functionalities into our applications.
- Work closely with external software vendors and/or internal Systems Development teams to ensure the business requirements are met and align with the system design.
- Understand product architecture and functionality which will allow you to assess the feasibility of buisness requests. Gain an understanding of product design and solutions to take wider ownership / responsibility for the defined product functionalities.
- Estimate value, develop use cases and prioritize stories and epics to ensure work is aligned with product strategy. Coordinate with project managers on scope, time & sizing estimates.
- Assist with testing of applications and enhancements, including writing test plans and acting as a business proxy for various application and environmental confirmations. Document exceptions, configurations and work-arounds as necessary.
- Assist with technical documents and user guides, and any needed modifications to existing documentation, training materials or user demonstrations.
- Participate in the deployment and implementation of new and existing products/applications.
- Investigate, triage, diagnose and resolve complex application issues, working with business partners, other IT departments (MGTI, O&S, etc.) and suppliers as appropriate.
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $65.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: Remote
