Senior Business Analyst

Acquisition NexGen is currently in search of a Sr. Business Analyst for a Financial Services Firm in Arlington, VA.

This is a Permanent/Full-Time role.

US Citizenship is required, and 3rd Party candidates will NOT be considered.

This is a HYRBID position that requires working onsite 5 days a month in Arlington, VA.

Candidates with a Financial Services/Banking background and/or experience working for a Big 4 Consulting Firm are highly preferred.

Position Summary:

You will be an integral member of our Business Process Product Delivery Team, collaborating with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to ensure that we develop new solutions to meet the diverse needs of a growing network of customers. You will be responsible for determining the business requirements and act as a liaison between functional/technical stakeholders and your development team (in-house and/or offshore). You will lead a delivery team on the analysis of improving existing business processes, as well as future business needs. You will also provide agile and project management best practices for your team and lead key agile ceremonies as a scrum master.

Responsibilities:

• Work with top IT talent in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment where automation and technical craftsmanship are a top priority.
• Usher feature development from inception through release as well as provide production support. This includes creating project charters, drafting and socializing story maps, detailing technical specifications, refining requirements, and crafting application roll-out strategies to ensure seamless releases.
• Be able to operate across multiple projects simultaneously and perform a variety of tasks, from addressing production issues to soliciting functional requirements from business stakeholders.
• Proactively identify and solve conflicting requirements across teams within various product delivery teams (in-house and/or offshore). Be able to answer questions, provide details, address changes to requirements, and facilitate dialog across teams.
• Independently perform functional analysis for new projects, as well as document functional and system requirements and solution designs.
• Provide on-call production support to ensure that our services are available and operating correctly.
• Facilitate meetings, manage and guide conversations with differing opinions, and communicate clearly and effectively with a variety of audiences.
• Be a key contributor to the software development lifecycle, including ensuring that project deliverables meet or exceed policies, procedures, and standards.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Systems Analyst. Experience within the Financial Services industry is highly preferred.
• Demonstrated success leading development teams within an agile framework, with experience tracking and removing impediments.
• Experience with working in a fast-paced software development environment leveraging continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and automated testing.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills to communicate effectively with nontechnical and technical business clients and teams.
• Ability to independently define requirements, acceptance criteria, and functional designs for complex IT systems.
• Excellent organizational skills, strong attention to detail, ability to multitask, and results/goal-oriented demeanor.
• Experience working with user flows, functional wireframes, storyboards, mockups, prototypes, user personas, scenarios, and other UX deliverables.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working in a production support environment, particularly one with rapid response requirements.
• Strong Oracle PL/SQL skills required.
• Experience working with AWS technologies preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, engineering, finance or business, or equivalent experience in software production or programming.

Qualified Candidates should send a Word / PDF attached copy of their resume to Scott Gilinger at scott.gilinger@acqnexgen.com.