Configuration Management Business Analyst recruitment

City based Investment Bank seek a Configuration Management Business Analyst. Understands business requirements and act as face off to the customers of CfM (Configuration Management). Analyse the key technologies, applications and services used by the Bank and help determine and ensure how these are represented in the CfM tools. Functional analysis of user requirements to determine how processes and tools will provide solutions. Analyse existing system and service management tools and specify how data from these tools will be integrated with the CfM tools. Develops, agrees and maintains a set of data standards. Works to implement the data standards by working with the Data Quality team. Acts as a point of expertise for Configuration Management requirements. Helps to promote the CfM function across the organisation. Ensure technical requirements support the business strategy. Interface with internal/external providers to ensure successful development, testing and implementation of change. Ensure migration from old to new technology

Software Definition / Specification

• Complete and elaborate technical software design (high level design) in accordance with solution designed by solution architect and documentation of the same.

• Define the integration strategy (including rationale), integration environment requirements, and determine the product-component integration sequence

• Identify the list of software product components which need to be integrated

• Identify dependencies between software product components, between technical components (such as database tables and master data files), and between applications and interfaces

• Assess and identify mitigation for risks including those related to high level design,  integration, quality of data

• Identify the product integration verifications to be performed based on the integration sequence and relevant dependencies

• Determine the impact on test or production environment (if any)

• Oversee database technical infrastructure

• Oversee available technologies and utilities

• Specify/select tools to enhance development process

• Ensure architectural changes (as defined by architects) are being implemented

• Evaluation of new products incl. prototyping (potentially on behalf of architects) – recommendation of new products

• Level 3 support for technical infrastructure components (e.g. databases, middleware, user interface)

• Contribute to problem and root cause analysis