Principal Business Analyst/ Product Owner

Currently, we are looking for talented resources for one of our listed clients. If interested please reply to me with your updated resume or feel free to reach out to me for more details at (949) 774-2432

On-Site role

Job Description:

• The Principal Business Analyst is a high impact, individual contributor that will work independently with the business and technology teams on building tech solutions from inception through implementation to support significant business transformation at Parametric.
• This position will initiate business and functional design, chart user journeys and personas, and identify key capabilities and milestones.
• The Principal Business Analyst has strong domain knowledge of asset management, in particular public equities, fixed income, direct indexing, and separate account management.
• Furthermore, this position is proactive and confident in their work taking initiative, leading cross functional partners/stakeholders, and identifying and resolving issues independently.
• The Principal Business Analyst is part of a team of Solution Managers & Business Analysts and has no management responsibility, but is seen as a leader, employing best practices and consistently demonstrating exceptional knowledge of business analysis.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works independently in all aspects of business analysis.
• Utilize expert Agile skills to collaborate successfully with development teams, create epics, milestones to advance the technology solution.
• Employ design thinking to iterate on the hypothesis that solves for the personas needs.
• Ability to significantly contribute to the solution vision and target operating model.
• Effectively collaborate with stakeholders to drive solution design decisions.
• Conduct user research by interviewing business counterparts to effectively draw out and articulate the business need/problem/ opportunity to be addressed with strong listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
• Gather and analyze requirements with a view toward design, including current state and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows and UI wireframes.
• Manage stakeholders by bringing them along on the journey, collaboratively socializing design components and by building professional relationships and influencing skills to advance objectives.
• Work closely and influence developers, strongly advocating for business needs, to achieve technology outcomes that will support the business objectives.
• Apply knowledge of technology to understand what is possible and quickly learn new technology concepts.
• Adapt to development teams’ work preferences to effectively collaborate, whether Agile or other style.
• Prepare for, initiate and run cross-functional team meetings or workshops that drive to decisions.
• Develop business outcomes and objectives, achieving stakeholder buy-in. Create user stories, contribute to solution backlog and groom backlog contribute to prioritization of backlog.
• Identify capabilities and enablers required, as well as milestones and roadmap to execute on the solution design.
• Continually increase knowledge of Parametric and utilize domain expertise in Parametric’s asset management business as well as its technology landscape (new and legacy).
• Ability to understand the overall enterprise goals to scale using technology enabled processes and contribute to the objective.
• Apply knowledge of enterprise goals to the design and decision-making.
• Communicate effectively - both verbally and written - to peers, business partners, architects and developers.
• This requires the ability to communicate the appropriate content and messaging for the audience.
• Document meetings and work, communicating decisions through written content.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in Business Analysis and/or Product Owner.
• Strong experience in querying, mapping and documenting data.
• Experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
• Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements.
• Advanced experience working with Agile/Kanban software development processes.
• Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Excel and Visio/Lucid.
• Ability to work be comfortable with ambiguity and to be flexible in a dynamic environment.
• Ability to thrive in a matrixed organization.
• Understanding of analysis and documentation goals throughout the project lifecycle.
• Ability to facilitate decision making through workshops.
• Ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines.
• Ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to successfully manage and coordinate simultaneous project deliverables across groups and teams.
• Strong experience with SQL, Excel, Visio/Lucid, Jira, Confluence.

About us:
At our organization, we take our mission and values to heart! We are on a mission to offer more and better jobs all over the world! Our goal is to care for you while you care for our clients and get you paid the highest pay possible. All our associates working with us are expected to embrace our RACE values: R - Results Matter, A- Approachable, C - Care, and E - Emergency i.e. work with a sense of urgency.

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