Technical Business Analyst/Project Manager

I have a long term contract opportunity for a Technical Business Analyst/PM to you one of our top tier investment banking clients (not trading). You will be responsible for helping to design, develop, and deploy business-facing technology solutions across the organizationThis job will be 3 days onsite and 2 days remote in Manhattan, NY.

• Be part of a business technology team responsible for owning and executing delivery of custom solutions that are uniquely tailored to the business’ needs.
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels to understand the business objectives and functional requirements necessary to perform their roles efficiently and effectively.
• Elicit, capture and interpret business problems from multiple perspectives; present implications and recommendations with strategic perspective, influencing project parameters and outcomes.
• Perform requirements gathering, solution design, functionality development, user acceptance testing, training, and deployment.
• Develop requirements, write user stories, and design user interfaces of any new functionality that can be understood and built by the development team.
• Understand the data model and architecture, and define data structures to enable new system functionality.
• Evaluate the suitability of existing/potential tools to fulfill business needs.
• Closely collaborate with Business Management, Information Technology, and outside vendors to develop and implement new applications and tools for use by the business.

• Strong knowledge of Business Analysis, Software Development, Project Management, and Data Management skillset.
• Experience translating business needs into detailed technical specifications for application development.
• High level understanding of code to collaborate with developers to design new solutions and provide support. First-hand knowledge of development is beneficial.
• Familiar with data model management processes and best practices.
• Experience with User Acceptance Testing and quality assurance.
• Strong knowledge of software development and implementation/deployment lifecycle and best practices.
• Excellent communication skills and demonstrated command of language, clarity of thought and orderliness of presentation.
• Excellent organization and documentations skills, with the ability to design and facilitate a group process, elicit contributions, stimulate focused discussions and achieve a desired outcome; consensus builder.
• Hands-on experience with on-premise and cloud-based enterprise systems; Knowledge of how to design, manage, and integrate these systems to support current and future business needs.

• Successful candidates will be self-motivated with a strong desire to contribute to the success of the department and company.
• Experience with Agile Development methodologies.