Business Analyst

The Role: Senior Product Analysis and Design Specialist

The Team:

• The OSTTRA Technology team is composed of Capital Markets Technology professionals, who build, support and protect the applications that operate our network
• The technology landscape includes high-performance, high-volume applications as well as compute
• intensive applications, leveraging contemporary microservices, cloud-based architectures
• The Impact: Together, we build, support, protect and manage high-performance, resilient platforms that process more than 100 million messages a day
• Our services are vital to automated trade processing around the globe, managing peak volumes and working with our customers and regulators to ensure the efficient settlement of trades and effective operation of global capital markets

Whats in it for you:

• As a Senior Product Analysis and Design Specialist, youll be working closely with product owners, development, QA and operation teams in an Agile and/or waterfall environment. Solution Engineering has a requirement for a Business Analyst to support the Jigsaw golden trade record and reference data platform that bridges our Trade Processing and Trade Lifecycle divisions for Rates, Credit, FX and Equity asset classes.
• The role requires the candidate to have excellent written and verbal communication skills, strong organizational coordination skills, and strong analytical skills. The successful candidate will be process-oriented and have a good understanding of product development lifecycle. The candidate should be comfortable in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to adapt to changes.
• The candidate will work closely with other Business Analysts and Product Managers in Trade Processing to deliver project change.
• The candidate will be expected to work with teams in India, Singapore, Tokyo, New York and London and build relationships internally as well as externally with clients
• Responsibilities:
• Experience of requirements elicitation, structured analysis and stakeholder management in a waterfall and/or agile environment.
• Able to undertake gap analysis and express in the form of user stories or functional specifications and communicate to Development and QA teams.
• Collaborate with Development and Quality Assurance to ensure implementation meets business requirements.
• Product Acceptance testing of new features during the development phase & review of test cases.
• Able to identify options for potential solutions, including assessment of technical and business suitability.
• Able to conduct public presentation of concepts and ideas comfortably.
• Knowledge of XML/FpML/FIXML/FIX/JSON or other messaging formats and the ability to map between these formats is essential.
• Equities, ETD, Rates, FX and Credit Derivatives knowledge would be highly desirable.
• Experience working as a Product owner in an agile scrum team and a keen interest in new technology would be beneficial.
• Experience of communicating UX requirements for Graphical User Interfaces through wire framing would be beneficial.

What Were Looking For:

• Post graduate Bachelors or Masters Degree preferred.
• Degree in related subject.
• 7+ years of relevant professional experience.
• An understanding of financial derivatives terms and principals.
• Prior Financial Services IT experience.
• Strong Analytical & Communication skills.
• Good Knowledge of requirements elicitation, structured analysis, requirement documentation, stakeholder management, use case and user story definition and other Business Analysis techniques.
• Exposure to SQL, Object-oriented languages (general technology know-how).
• Strong knowledge of XML/FpML/FIXML/FIX/JSON
• Good knowledge of OTC derivatives
• Commercial awareness and financial services experience.
• Qualifications in Business Analysis Product Management related subjects.
• Microsoft Office Visio skills.
• Demonstrate experience in working in a product management environment and an
• organizational setting.
• Proven experience in project leadership and decision making.
• The Location: Gurgaon, India