PM/Scrum
Jersey City (hybrid - 3days)
- Might have to commute into NYC 1 day a week
12-18 month contract
$70-78/hour W2; Not available for C2C or 1099.
**Heavy JIRA
Job Description Details:
- Project Manager/Business Analyst position is within Global Markets Technology supporting Equity and Fixed Income Business and Operations teams to deliver client facing self-service solutions.
- The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated, hands-on Technical Business Analyst with experience in creating/refining business and functional requirements, data analysis, and documentation of existing systems and processes.
- Proficiency and expertise in using JIRA and managing program portfolios.
- Strong quantitative skills, attention to detail, critical thinking, and the ability to support multiple projects simultaneously and independently in fast paced environment.
- Excellent technical and analytical skills; Analyze existing capabilities and identify priority gaps and opportunities.
- Leverage their experience and understanding of stakeholder needs to help create a solution, envisions the solution to solve a problem (manual or through software).
- Gathers & catalogs functional, non-functional, and technical requirements for stakeholder requests.
- Determines the impact of modifications and enhancements on the application.
- Acts as the product(s) subject matter expert to support scope and requirement decisions.
- Ensures changes to the application are compliant with bank standards and policies.
- Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects.
- Work on enhancement projects that improve the operational landscape for the global markets businesses, as well as internal company projects that enhance Straight Through Processing.
- The candidate should be comfortable in an environment with mixed delivery methodologies depending on the project (Agile, Waterfall) and able to adapt to new technologies, products and processes quickly.
- Document business and functional requirements, including process and data flows, business logic and rules, and use cases/ stories.
- Experience supporting executive requests for reports, KPIs etc.
- Manage global project teams consisting of business sponsors, developers, designers and testers.
- Work closely with UX team to design new features and components.
- Manage deliverables and priorities with management and business stakeholders.
- Coordinate and conduct testing cycles; acceptance criteria, unit testing, qa and user acceptance testing.
- Support production delivery rollouts on release weekends.
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Required/Desired Skills:
- Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Finance or business-related field of study.
- Required 15+ years experience as business analyst in financial setting.
- Scrum Master experience; Must be trained in Agile and Scrum methodology.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Knowledgeable in Portal Technologies a plus, Java J2EE, JSON, Oracle, SQL, Liferay.
- High level proficiency in SQL/databases is a must.
- Proficiency in JIRA and Confluence Tools is a must.Must Have Functional Agile scrum master : -1 (0 - No Familiarity) of 5 (5 - Expert)and 0 years Technical Jira : -1 (0 - No Familiarity) of 5 (5 - Expert)and 0 years Scrum Master : -1 (0 - No Familiarity) of 5 (5 - Expert)and 0 years
