Technical Business Analyst

Group Overview: The TP ICAP Group is a world leading provider of market infrastructure.
Our purpose is to provide clients with access to global financial and commodities markets, improving price discovery, liquidity, and distribution of data, through responsible and innovative solutions.
Through our people and technology, we connect clients to superior liquidity and data solutions.
The Group is home to a stable of premium brands.
Collectively, TP ICAP is the largest interdealer broker in the world by revenue, the number one Energy & Commodities broker in the world, the world's leading provider of OTC data, and an award winning all-to-all trading platform.
The Group operates from more than 60 offices in 27 countries.
We are 5,300 people strong.
We work as one to achieve our vision of being the world's most trusted, innovative, liquidity and data solutions specialist.
Role Overview: The Senior Technical Business Analyst (STBA) will elicit, understand and document Functional and Non-Functional requirements whilst working closely with senior stakeholders within the TP ICAP Business, Corporate and Technology teams.
The STBA will ensure, together with the project team, that requirements are accurately translated into a Roadmap with Milestones and User Stories.
The STBA will work on complex Order Management and Deal Management Systems, including integration with Enterprise services and third party systems.
The STBA will analyse, understand and model existing business processes within the company and recommend improvements to ensure the effectiveness of the processes.
Role Responsibilities: Requirements Analysis and Capture, Prioritisation, Estimation, SDLC and Delivery Work closely with the business product owners, business product analysts, and the development team, to ensure the delivery roadmap is in line with business priorities Help the development teams identify Stories which can be grouped to form minimum viable deliveries in order to support the identification in order to deploy regularly to production Help team members understand the focus and delivery value of each milestone and each release Be capable of articulating the business requirements to support planning and estimation Be responsible for capturing business needs in user stories and use cases and ensure that here is sufficient detail to allow scope definition, estimation and prioritisation Support the use of preferred planning and prioritisation tooling to capture and track deliveries, identify issues and help with roadmap and iteration planning and prioritisation Be proactive in supporting the team's engagement in a well defined SDLC that supports planning, prioritisation and delivery needs Support the team through help with defining scope and guiding estimation of work to be done by leveraging domain and business knowledge Identify opportunities to consolidate deliveries so as to more effectively address root cause issues across multiple platforms or business products Challenge the business on their assumptions of what they need to uncover what their problems actually are so that development will be equipped to propose more efficient or effective solutions, or at a minimum ensure deliveries are addressing root cause issues Ensure that business prioritisation gates in the SDLC are utilised effectively by guiding the business product owners and analysts through the SDLC Communication and Leadership Work with the business product owners to shepherd their articulation of business needs and priorities and capture these using preferred tooling in recognised formats such as user stories and use cases Participate in retrospectives and seek opportunities to drive best practice Support members of the software team in delivering high quality and innovative software solutions that meet business needs by working with team members at each stage in the feature lifecycle: estimation, prioritisation, test case analysis, development, testing, deployment Collaborate with the development team, the PEs, TLs and TDMs and the business to establish and analyse trade-offs between usability and delivery Be a liaison between the senior members of the business units, technology and support teams Be supportive of other team members where possible and seek opportunities to mentor, and share experience and domain knowledge with other team members Seek to become a subject matter expert for the business areas that are interfaced into and be able to support the wider team in their acquisition of knowledge in the general domain and in specific business products Change, Risk and Issue Management Identify and support team to identify and escalate risks as appropriate Work with the Team Leaders to provide time and resource estimates, identify potential areas of risk and suggest mitigating actions Share complex business needs or issues with other team members and influence their decision making where necessary Ensure business risks are fully communicated and understood Assist and facilitate prioritisation of software defects and enhancements Experience / Competences: Education/Professional Qualifications Degree or equivalent industry experience Essential Experience in a business analysis role in the delivery of complex systems Experience of eliciting and capturing requirements, using user stories and use cases, in a software development environment for the delivery of complex systems Enterprise system experience Experience of the full software development lifecycle in a technical role Desirable Education/Professional Qualifications Relevant Masters or higher degree Experience Experience of delivering platforms and services across multiple teams Experience of multi-year projects from inception to maintenance Experience of regulatory driven projects Experience of mentoring colleagues and supporting colleague growth and advancement Experience of transitioning applications and/or products from vendors or remote locations to local teams Knowledge of Financial Markets, Systems and Over the Counter (OTC) products Financial sector experience Experience of using agile tooling to support team delivery Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive approach Strong analytical ability and problem solving skills Not The Perfect Fit?
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