Financial BA

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Job description

Financial Business Analyst - PA

Client - Financial, Oaks, PA

Rate- Max $50/hr on W2

Independent Visa's.

Job Description

Wealth Platform to facilitate the wealth management and investment processing needs of our clients worldwide. The scope of the platform is comprehensive and includes client relationship management, investment management, portfolio accounting, transaction initiation, order management, trade execution, clearing, currency and foreign exchange processing, corporate actions processing, reconciliation, financial (reference) data management, financial planning, portfolio management, reporting and operational workflow.

The candidate will exhibit leadership and facilitation skills to help assure that the team follows the rules of Scrum/Agile and helps the team meet their daily and iteration objectives. The candidate is the team-based management/leadership proxy who will assist the team in the transition to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and continuously facilitate a team dynamic intended to maximize performance of the team. The candidate works to remove impediments, facilitate continuous improvement and coordinates solution implementation and delivery with other Scrum Masters on the Release Train. In the context of the Agile Release Train Planning ceremonies the candidate will provide substantial inter-team coordination to provide simple status reporting, elimination of cross team impediments and working through team dependencies.

Responsibilities include:

• Mentors the empowered, self-organizing, and self-accountable teams that are responsible for delivery of successful outcomes at each sprint.
• Facilitates the teams progress toward the PSI and team objectives
• Protects the team from external distractions
• Leads the team's efforts in continuous improvement which includes; helping the team to improve, take responsibility for their actions and become problem solvers for themselves.
• Records suggested improvements and tracks progress towards achieving these goals
• Enforces the rules of the SAFe Agile and Development Team Scrum process
• Helps eliminate obstacles to the adoption of enterprise Technical Practices - adhering to SAFe's - Six Agile Software Engineering Practices for Achieving High Quality Code - agile architecture, continuous integration, test-first, refactoring, pair work and collective ownership
• Leads the team to stay focused on Business and Sprint Goals
• Identifies and tracks cross-team dependencies
• Eliminates impediments by actively addressing issues with other scrum teams so that the team can stay focused on achieving the objectives of the iteration.
• Coordinates with other Scrum Masters, the Systems Team and shared resources in the Agile Release Train (ART) Release Planning meetings.
• Facilitates preparation and readiness for Sprint and PSI Planning meetings
• Works with other Scrum Masters, the Systems Team and shared resources throughout each Sprint and PSI
• Uses normalized estimating to help the program estimate larger features and EPICs
• Assists the Product Owner in preparing for various planning,backlog refinement meetings and other requested activities
• Keeps track of the backlog to assist the Product Owner in aligning User Stories with Features / Business Objectives
• Documents decisions as needed
• Coordinates teams operating under architectural and portfolio governance, system level integration and System Demos
• Participates in the Scrum of Scrums and coordinates with other Scrum Masters as necessary
• Escalates impediments and risks to the RTE that cannot be resolved at the team level
• Facilitates team collaboration with System Architect to ensure high quality technical delivery
• Facilitates team collaboration with QA Manager to drive testing strategies, testing automation and overall quality process improvement
• Supports RET and Scrum Master in Train/Team retrospectives and continuous improvement activities.
• Support User Acceptance Testing Process
• Works with Product Management and Product Ownerto help assure strategy and execution alignment
• Encourages Communities of Practice around SAFeby participating in the Scrum Master Community of Practice forums
• Acts as a mindset change agent from traditional team manager to servant leader

This position reports to the Development Delivery Manager of the Agile Release Train

Required: Team Lead/Project Experience

• Displays Servant Leadership skills
• Working knowledge of Scrum, XP, and SAFe(CSM preferred)
• Ability to motivate a team
• Proven decision-making, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Detail oriented with the ability to organize and prioritize tasks to ensure timely delivery of the Sprints/PSI's.
• Strong Process orientation
• Strong conceptual grasp of technology with successful history of delivery technical projects.
• Strong understanding of SAFe or iterative development processes, quality and testing best practices.
• Extensive experience in large-scale projects requiring the integration of 3rd party software within common technical infrastructure, as well as managing 3rd party software development.
• Must have experience with object-oriented development methodology for J2EE/UNIX/Oracle environment, including design, testing and performance engineering.
• Demonstrated solid leadership and collaboration skills.
• Proven track record of team management.
• Strong Verbal and Oral Communication skills.
• Conflict resolution and negotiating skills.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Demonstrable project management experience.
• Strong problem solver and proven ability to think creatively and seek optimum solutions.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience.
• History of successful project completion and team building;
• Good presentation, communication, and negotiation skills
• Experience interfacing with management
• Desire to work collaboratively with the all Agile teams and their stakeholders
• Possess a high level of technical savvy.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including understanding of technical writing requirements
• Comfort in delegating tasks, inter-relating with teams and hitting deadlines

- provided by Dice