Electronic Trading - Senior Business Analyst

Electronic Trading – Senior Business Analyst

Electronic Trading – Senior Business Analyst
Country: United Kingdom
Santander Digital Services is running a greenfield project to enhance its electronic trading offering within SCIB Fixed Income. Working closely with the fixed income trading business both in London and Spain, the team are delivering on the 3 year strategy to build out a new eTrading system to replace an existing vendor system. The project is sponsored at high levels within the business.
Role Description
As a Senior Business Analyst you will be responsible for the ensuring the team deliver a high-quality solution that meets the needs of the business both in terms of required functionality but also from a technical workflow perspective. Using industry best practices for documenting and communicating the requirements to both the technical team implementing as well as to the non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of the agile process and how to structure requirements to facilitate this is key to the project\’s success. As is working closely with the various stakeholders to break the larger stories down into smaller stories to allow the sprint management.
We are looking for candidates with a deep knowledge of the Fixed Income electronic trading businesses and proven track record as a senior BA within front-office development teams.
Job Responsibilities / Role

• Work closely with business sponsors to elicit requirements to deliver the project milestones.
• Document these requirements in jira and structure them into epics, user stories and tasks.
• Explain requirements to the development team and work closely with them to deliver the features.
• Perform UAT testing of newly developed features
• Work closely with partner technology teams and collaborate effectively.
• Potential to line manage developers, dev Ops and QA resources and to co-ordinate hiring and on-boarding of new team members.

Skills Required:
Essential:

• Expert-level product knowledge of rates or credit products. Ideally both.
• Detailed knowledge of Rate product Pricing valuations and metrics
• Proven experience as a hands-on business analyst within a front-office development team for an investment bank.

Desirable:

• Experience working in an agile development team.
• Experience of managing IT projects.

Qualities & Skills

• Energetic, motivated and determined
• Pragmatic and results-oriented
• Adaptable to diverse set of responsibilities
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Productive and able to manage time effectively
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Qualifications
Bachelor degree in Computer Science / Information Technology or a related field, or substantial practical experience of software delivery at an advanced level

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