Business Analyst

**Job title**: BSA - Aperture with Capital Market
**Client**: Bank
**Location**: Halifax hybrid 3 day

**Position Type-Regular** Full-Time Contract

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BSA - Aperture with Capital Market

Aperture Senior Business Analyst
**What is the opportunity?**
**RBC Capital Markets (Canada) **is hiring multiple Senior Business Analysts to join **Quantitative & Technology Services' (QTS)** **Data, Cloud & Compute team**. This is a deep engineering function developing high performance data and compute capabilities used across all of **Capital Market's technology**. Our products operate at massive scale, for example **Burst/Grid computation across 150k cores supporting risk calculations in Equities and Fixed Income.**
The primary purpose of this position is to engage and partner with technology teams across Capital Markets to

1) deeply understand their business needs, use-cases, datasets, and analytical requirements,

2) assess product-fit and 3) facilitate the smooth adoption of the Aperture platform.

**What will you do?**
**Requirement Analysis and Documentation**:

- Facilitate information gathering sessions including leading discussions, managing group dynamics, and maintaining group focus, to work towards accomplishing the stated goal(s) of the session within the context of the project objectives - From these information sessions, gathers the requirements and documents them, along with business use cases, feasibility analysis and cross functional diagrams as needed
- Partner with the platform engineering teams to ensure technical capabilities and data requirements are well understood, identify dependencies and integration points
- Work with senior stakeholders to validate their requirements and analysis via techniques such as reviews and walkthroughs
- Ensures system specifications meet the business stakeholders' expectations/requirements, and negotiate solutions when appropriate

**Data Analysis**
- Analyze incoming data sets and develop detailed requirements around sourcing solutions, identify provisioning requirements, data transformations etc.
- Identify data accuracy requirements, solution options and remediation plans in case of a breach

Communication and Planning
- Participate in reviews or inspections, in collaboration with the project team, to ensure the quality of the deliverables
- Participate in the user acceptance testing, implementation planning, post implementation validations and L2 production incident analysis as needed
- Manage risks, assumptions, and constraints for requirements, and communicate to appropriate parties

**What do you need to succeed?**
**Minimum Requirements**
**Strong **business **domain **understanding of **Financial Services/Capital Markets,** excellent data analysis and solid background dealing with complex software products (preferably cloud/ data analytics focused)

10+ years of experience working as a Business Analyst with progressively increasing responsibilities in the areas of requirements management on large and complex projects

Proven experience with various project delivery methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative and/or Agile Experience in requirements planning and prioritization including stakeholder analysis and effort estimation
**Data analysis expertise (e.g., using SQL, Tableau, Python)**
**Nice to Have**
**- Masters Certificate in Business Analysis**
**- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP),** **Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), **or **Project Management Institute -Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) Certification (preferred) - Agile Certification (CSM, CPO)**
Experience of **working with Capital Markets di**vision of a multi-national bank or a Consulting firm focusing on similar clients

**Regards,**
**Compest Solutions Inc**
**D: 647-660-7562**

**Job Type**: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: $55.00-$60.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

**Experience**:

- Business Analyst: 10 years (required)
- Aperture: 10 years (required)
- Capital Market's: 10 years (required)
- Burst/Grid computation: 10 years (preferred)
- Equities and Fixed Income.: 10 years (preferred)
- SQL, Tableau, Python: 10 years (preferred)
- Financial Services/Capital Markets,: 10 years (preferred)
- AI/ML modelling on very large data sets.: 10 years (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) (preferred)
- CCBA (preferred)
- PMI-PBA (preferred)
- Agile Certification (CSM, CPO) (preferred)

Work Location: On the road