
Business Systems Analyst
- Toronto, ON
- Contract
- Full-time
- Reason for request/why opened: Specific project to support
- Scope of Project: Project 1: Changing processes and creating adjustment framework for treasury feed’s (accepting data) (Sept start date) Project 2: Transformation and integration of Canadian feeds for treasury (Oct start date)
- Team Size/Culture: 10+ people
- Degree/Certifications Required: Post secondary (asset)
- Years of experience: 8+
- % Interaction with Stakeholders: 30%
- Ideal Candidate Background: banking industry (asset)
- How will performance be measured: meeting deliverables and deadlines
- Selling Points of Position (CVP): exposure to capital markets, treasury and balance sheet management of the bank. Tech stacks like java, Hadoop, azure cloud.
- Best vs Average Candidate: good communication, very strong SQL knowledge, previous exposure to banking industry
- Analyze, document and validate business rules requirements from business users.
- As Spark SQL is used as a programming language for the business rules, a successful candidate is required to be able to write, test Spark SQL statements to translate the business requirements into the programming code.
- Optimize performance and tune Spark SQL statements
- Use Visual Studio (SQL Integration Services) to analyze SSIS packages
- Analyze multiple system builds by completing and updating project requirements documentation; understanding project scope; determining project priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths.
- Collaborate closely with the technology team to implement the requirements, provide necessary guidance to testers during QA process
- Assess business process and system inefficiencies
- Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements, including recognizing patterns and conceptualizing processes
- Participate in standup and planning meeting as part of the Agile methodology framework
- 8+ years of experience working on large scale projects as well as handling day-to-day operational requests from the business
- 4+ years of experience with data analysis
- Familiarity with the general concepts of optimization and performance tuning of SQL statements.
- Familiarity with RDBMS (Oracle, SQL Server)
- Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks at any given point, strong relationship building skills & communication skills
- Being comfortable working in a distributed teams environment
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Experience in financial services industry, specifically in Capital Markets and Treasury
- Experience with Big Data and NoSQL databases (Hadoop/HBase/Spark) and Spark SQL is a bonus