Senior Information Technology Business Analyst

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Job description

PETADATA is looking for a Senior IT Business Analyst to work with one of our clients.

Job Location: Chicago, IL (Chicago candidates only).

Experience: 10+

Work Authorization: W2, Full-time.

Visa: H1B Visa, TN Visa, US Citizen, Green Card.

Job Description: PETADATA is looking for a Sr. IT Business Analyst who acts as an interface with the business & a partner within the dev. Teams to provide an integrated solution across domains. The candidate is responsible for independently contributing to the analysis planning, detailed analysis, design, & solution validation for mid to large projects or enhancements for a primary system. The individual must have excellent written & verbal communication skills, excellent problem-solving skills, and the ability to facilitate, negotiate, & influence.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Analysis Planning, Monitoring, and Communication: Responsible for managing individual responsibilities within the analysis plan, approach, and requirements management.
• To Contribute a direct input into the approach and status. May have some oversight and supervision by a project lead or manager. Contributes to primary and adjacent systems, while staying informed on analysis work for other systems on the project.
• Detailed Analysis: Responsible for performing Full analysis activities such as Full requirements, user stories, interface specs, UI specs, and report specs for a primary system. May have oversight and supervision by a project lead or manager.
• Elicitation: Often contributes to the elicitation sessions, storyboarding, prototyping, and analysis. Elicitation participation may be limited to their primary system and adjacent systems.
• Impact Analysis: Contributes to impact analysis on enhancements. Solicited input on the budget analysis or impact assessments for a primary system.
• Knowledge Management: Contributes and manages the knowledge base for the domain, including both project artifacts and living artifacts.
• Solution Assessment and Validation: Reviews QA testing strategy and test plans. Informed on the logical and physical design; Informed or participated with supervision on user acceptance testing.

Mandatory Skills:

• Candidates must have a basic understanding of OTC derivatives like swaps, options, forwards, etc.
• Prior industry/work experience in a regulatory reporting role, focused on Global Regulations such as Dodd-Frank, EMIR, SFTR, MiFID II, MAS…etc. Strong knowledge of one or more of these regulations is highly desirable.
• Competent in Requirements Management Tools, Knowledge Management Tools, and Collaboration Tools like Confluence and Jira.
• Experience with MS Office, technical skills such as database querying, and understanding of XML representation are a must.

If you are interested and meet the above job requirements, please submit your resume to

After carefully reviewing your experience and skills, one of our Hiring team members will contact you on the next steps.