Manager, Business Analyst

Your Role

You will be a key member of our Integration Team, solving complex business challenges with forward-looking architectures in a collaborative Agile environment. You will lead a team of analysts with a broad range of skills to develop new products, modernize existing systems, and support our customers using new and traditional technologies, with a special focus on banking systems.

Your Responsibilities

• Maintaining a keen understanding of workload across multiple project teams to facilitate resource allocation, identify individual development opportunities, track group development progress toward strategic goals, and identify team member performance concerns.
• Attending sprint-related meetings, such as planning, preparation, and grooming sessions; daily standups; and other pertinent discussions of work efforts across the department to provide guidance to team members and ensure effectiveness.
• Working closely with and supporting senior analysts and solution architects across multiple projects to ensure project requirements are fully defined, business needs are met, and schedules are kept.
• Attending manager-level meetings and actively participating in discussions pertaining to IT, including identifying concerns to raise and proactively executing on actions coming out of such meetings to accomplish department objectives.
• Working collaboratively with Vice President of Integration Technology and peer managers to define forward-looking team structures, identify process improvements, and implement division-wide goals and initiatives.
• Proactively defining, administering, and monitoring effectiveness of and compliance with development policies and procedures regarding requirements documentation, audit requirements, and other aspects of the software development life cycle.
• Participating in annual budgeting exercises by forecasting needs, understanding application and tool usage, and optimizing expenditures.
• Ensuring and facilitating cross-team collaboration to promote sharing best practices and minimize conflicts.

Required Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• At a minimum, 10 years of experience
• 8+ years of experience in personnel management in a related field
• 5+ years of experience in business analysis, project management, SCRUM leadership, or similar experience

• Experience in a leadership role with demonstrated ability to achieve goals and objectives
• Ability to lead and manage projects, focusing on customer needs and delivering timely results
• Experience in progressive systems-infrastructure and cloud technologies
• Experience in externally facing and financial services related systems
• Understanding of, and experience in, the areas of traditional IT systems
• Ability to solve problems and multitask within tight deadlines; self-directed and results/goal-oriented mindset

• Experience with presentation, written, and verbal communication skills directed to both technical and nontechnical audiences
• Excellent attention to detail and superior organizational skills