Senior Application Specialist

Posted 15 Days Ago
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Minneapolis, MN
3-5 Years Experience
Fintech • Insurance
The Role
The Senior Application Specialist collaborates with IT and operations teams to analyze and recommend technical solutions. Responsibilities include leading project teams through design, developing functional specifications, assessing risks, and ensuring back-office systems are effectively implemented and documented.
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Job Summary

In this position, you would partner with IT, operations teams, and business stakeholders to assess, analyze, and recommend business and technical solutions. You also would lead the teams through design and development and ensure the solution is properly implemented from end-to-end. If you like taking back end systems from where they are to a newer, better target state, this is the position for you.

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

In this position, you would partner with IT, operations teams, and business stakeholders to assess, analyze, and recommend business and technical solutions. You also would lead the teams through design and development and ensure the solution is properly implemented from end-to-end. If you like taking back end systems from where they are to a newer, better target state, this is the position for you.

What will you do?

  • Work collaboratively with solution architects, business analysts, project managers, and technical leads to design solutions for different back office processes
  • Develop and present solution alternatives along with recommendations to business stakeholders, executives, and senior management
  • Recommend best mix of standard functionality, configuration and custom development, interfacing applications and third party vendor solutions to meet business requirements and project objectives
  • Help project delivery team with what cross commits need to do from ideation to launch
  • Work with one or more of our backoffice vendor systems to determine technical requirements and documentation
  • Identify functional issues and risks and develop/recommend mitigation strategies
  • Configure systems solution and develop functional specifications when needed based on business requirements
  • Documents new builds and transitions to production support team

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

  • 3+ years of experience in IS/IT or Financial Security Reference Data systems
  • Be able to research and document current technical state of systems end-to-end through talking with users, other tech teams, and documentation
  • Strong systems and process analysis and documentation skills
  • Strong visual and verbal communication skills
  • College degree or sufficient related work experience

Nice-to-have

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration or quantitative / analytical field
  • Experience working in a team environment
  • Experience with project development process of baselining and managing changes
  • Experience with financial/wealth management industry
  • Experience with financial security reference data

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Flexible work/life balance options
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities
  • Access to a variety of job opportunities across business

Job Skills

Agile Methodology, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Design, Functional Specifications, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis, Technical Requirements, Technical Solutions

Additional Job Details

Address:

250 NICOLLET MALL:MINNEAPOLIS

City:

Minneapolis

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2024-10-21

Application Deadline:

2024-12-16

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.
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Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 88,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada’s biggest bank, and one of the largest in the world based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com.‎

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