As a Senior Business system Analyst, the individual will create an effective conduit between the business stakeholders and technology staff by translating business needs into technical solution concepts and specifications. Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the collection, evaluation, understanding, documentation, and communication of business requirements involved in the development of new or the modification and ongoing support of existing enterprise business applications. Individual is also responsible for providing a high level of expertise in core banking systems with full Functional knowledge of all phases of its lifecycle. The individual performs the tasks required to analyze, develop, and support such systems. As a part of daily activity, the individual engages on production environments by analyzing and identifying root cause and resolving the issue in a timely manner by working with Vendors and Partners.
Duties & Responsibilities
• Complete project assignments in research, analysis, design, coding, testing, troubleshooting and implementation of systems.
• Complete assignments on schedule, meeting operational and performance requirements
• Interact with business users to gather and verify business requirements through formal and informal sessions.
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical requirements, tests plans and training materials, to be used in formal and informal training sessions.
• Formulate and define systems scope and objectives, devising procedures to solve complex problems considering equipment capacity and limitations
• Ask probing questions to have a full understanding of the scope and scale of the need and come up with sizing of effort.
• Organize review sessions with business sponsor, other stakeholders and IT Development
• Participate actively in the creation of project estimates, cost benefit analyses, and the work plan, tracking progress to plan and adjusting approach to maintain commitments.
• Produce excellent, thorough, design and development documentation. Prepare technical documentation according to SDLC methodology.
• Develop detailed specification for which programs are written.
• Extremely hands-on in building data-driven business applications.
• Execute test cases, find and document any and all problems, bugs, or other issues (into a bug database) that affect systems.
• Participate in integration system testing and proactively help users in execution of UAT cycle by documenting resolution in a defect tracking tool
• Interact with business users to gather production defects, analyze and collaborate with the product vendor in production support and new development activities
• Maintain bank’s applications in production and support all tasks required to resolve production issues in a timely manner
• Support the change management process by documenting requests, evaluating criticality of changes to the business and impact to the project commitments.
• Ensure that performance and quality of products conform to established company standards; guidelines; specifications and customer requirements by implementing, overseeing, and maintaining formal/structured test programs, policies, processes, procedures, and controls.
• Provide best-practices, state-of-the-art consulting to internal receivers and other systems staff.
• Compliance of all Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Bank Secrecy Laws and KYC rules, regulations and the bank's BSA/AML policies and procedures
Compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and Bank Secrecy Act related principles, laws, rules and regulations, as well as Itau’s related policies and procedures.
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer/Information Science, Computer Engineering or similar technical field required
• 5+ years or more on project implementation/management experience
• 5+ years of experience in banking or financial services industry, preferably in Private Banking
• 5+ years of experience in third party software package evaluation, implementation and support, debugging e trouble shooting
• Experience with core banking systems implementation/packages/outsourcing, that interfaces with a number of satellite systems, such as portfolio management system, AML, document imaging, client reporting, BI.
• Experience on .NET, Visual Studio, SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). Java and Eclipse experience is a plus.
• Microsoft certification in one or more disciplines desired.
• Application troubleshooting / production support experience with Windows Server, UNIX, Linux and AS400 systems, IIS, Tomcat & WebSphere AS/MQ servers, JBoss.
• Application troubleshooting / production support experience with batch scheduling tools, services and monitoring.
• Knowledge in Web Application (HTTP Server,Websphere Application Server,Database Server SQL, ODBC, TCP/IP)
• Hands-on experience with source control & release management systems such as TFS, SVN, Git, BitBucket.
• Must be proficient with modeling and mapping tools (e.g., Visio, Enterprise Architect, etc.)
• Experience in data warehouse building & maintenance.
• Understanding in SDLC and application software support
• Demonstrated solid application development and support skills on Database modeling and administration, Web development, Systems testing and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of complex object serialization and deserialization.
• Experience writing unit and system tests
• Solid Problem Solving, Analytical skills and ability to work under little supervision or independently under high pressure production environment
• Good oral and written communication skills in English and strong interpersonal skills to participate effectively in cross-functional teams
• Demonstrated ability to self-manage, deal with ambiguity and to apply problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Demonstrated success in delivery of multiple critical projects for an Investment Bank (Securities Industry)
Knowledge in AML processes or platforms is a plus.
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in Portuguese and/or Spanish is desirable
Equal Opportunity Employer
This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.
Top Skills
What We Do
Itaú Unibanco is a global financial services firm and the largest private sector financial institution in Latin America. Headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil, Itaú is a full-service financial institution that offers a complete spectrum of financial products and services to a broad range of clients, from individuals to the most sophisticated institutional investors. Itaú has operations in 19 countries throughout the Americas, Asia, Middle East and Europe. In the United States, Itaú has offices in Miami and New York with three lines of business offering a broad range of corporate investment, asset management and private banking services. Learn more: - Private Bank (search for "Itaú Private Bank") - Asset Management (search for "Itaú Asset Management") - Corporate & Investment Bank (search for "Itaú BBA") The information contained herein is for reference/informational purposes only, and does not constitute any invitation or recommendation of investments of any kind. The information is provided “as is” and Itaú does not warrant its accuracy, completeness or adequacy, nor does it undertake any obligation to maintain it updated at all times.
