Business Analyst, IT, Market Data, Agile, Data, Investment Bank recruitment
Business Analyst, IT, Market Data, Agile, Data, Investment Bank
Business analyst required to provide high-level analysis within the Market Data environment of a leading Investment Bank. This department is responsible for the end-to-end delivery of bank-wide cross-asset class technologies and they run several global enterprise scale systems. These allow the data to be accessed in a simpler and more natural way, hiding current complexity, to ease implementation of pricing and risk systems and reduce duplication of effort. You will be providing the analysis over putting standardised frameworks and controls in place to give structure to their systems.
This team are very much an advocate of using Agile management methodologies and develop functional tests as specifications as well as working closely with development and test teams.
You will need to understand processes to review/correct and use market data across various asset classes and work with the asset class teams to define the interfaces that should be available to support these processes, and then get them implemented. In addition, you will be working closely with the business and technology teams to migrate their existing market data usage to the new services.
Essential:
- Technical Business Analyst from an Investment Banking background
- Must have worked on internal Market Data projects
- Experience of Agile techniques
- Ability to write test and functional specification
- Broad asset class knowledge – FX, Rates, Credit, Commodities, Structured Products are desirable