Data Platform Business Analyst - Waltham, United States - Commonwealth Financial Network

Commonwealth Financial Network

Verified Company

Waltham, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Overview:
Data Platform Business Analyst, Commonwealth Equity Services, LLC (dba Commonwealth Financial Network), Waltham, MA

Overview

Will aid in designing, developing, and delivering modern and efficient tools and business solutions.

Will work with a team of Business Analysts in the development and support of internal and third-party systems, product management, business systems analysis, software quality assurance and automation, development operations, database analysis and development, release management, cloud platform solution architecture, web development and UI/UX design.

Key Responsibilities:

Gathering and documenting business requirements; understanding the client's complete business needs and putting a plan into action.
Using Data analysis as ways to educate and support data driven decision making.
Identifying, evaluating and resolving complex data issues and advocating process improvements to mitigate future occurrences.
Taking information from client meetings and putting it into system requirement documents and user stories for the Development team.
Leverage Agile best practices to support software development lifecycle.
Collaborating with members of the Technology department to develop project documentation, UI design, and other key artifacts.
Conducting walkthroughs of all completed technical specifications with the team to ensure that the documentation is complete and development estimates are accurate.
Serving as the main liaison between business users and the Development staff to verify that all business and technical requirements are met on schedule; communicating business requirement changes to business users.
Working with vendors to implement new systems or modify tools currently in use by the Company.
Providing creative technology solutions to our company's business problems.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree (or an equivalent foreign degree) in Information Systems, IT or Business Administration and 2 years of experience as a Business Process Analyst.

Must also have 2 years of experience (which can have been gained concurrently with the primary experience requirement above) working with the following:

The Scrum and Agile development process;
Data Pipelines, Master Data Management and Data Warehousing
All stages of a project life cycle, including planning, analysis, design, construction, and testing;
Visio or Lucid to document complex business logic/processes;
Modern Technology platforms specifically either Tableau, Kibana or Oracle SQL;
SQL or other data querying tools for data analysis.

Must have strong communications skills to work with business partners as well as technology teams.

This is a hybrid position working 2 days/week at the company's office in Waltham, MA and 3 days/week at a home office.