Business Analyst

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Job description

Company
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

As a part of the nation's central bank, the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City supports a stable financial system. We work across diverse communities throughout our region and nation to foster understanding in our economy, the payments system, and financial institutions for people from all walks of life.

Together, we serve the public and each other in an innovative environment that values the highest ethical standards. Here you'll find support to develop, united in a clear and common purpose with a diverse team.

About the Role

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (FRBKC) is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Post Payment Modernization Initiative (PPMI). PPMI is an initiative to implement a modern cloud-based payments platform for the United States Treasury. The modern platform will provide numerous Treasury business capabilities.

This position partners with various stakeholders, including subject matter experts, executives, operational users, and technical staff to influence the application vision, roadmap, and drive scope. Additionally, this position analyzes, elicits, and documents requirements associated with defined scope and objectives as well as helps to manage a product backlog and assists leadership and Treasury Product Owner in making informed decisions on priorities and features.

Key Activities:

• Analyzes business problems and/or proposed enhancements to technology solutions while ensuring alignment with overall product vision and objectives.
• Provides verbal or written recommendation on feasibility of incorporating or enhancing technology solutions based on business data, market knowledge, and impacts to other stakeholders and technology solutions.
• Identifies, reconciles, and resolves conflicting perspectives of various stakeholders and impacts to technology solutions.
• Collaborates with various stakeholders (internal and external) including Treasury Product Owner and technology staff to influence and/or identify the product's business value, vision, and scope.
• Partners with technical staff by responding to questions regarding requirements, functionality, and data to determine and clarify business value of appropriate technology solutions.
• Analyzes, develops, and documents clearly defined functional and non-functional user stories and behavior driven scenarios to meet business needs.
• Identifies gaps or underlying issues through analysis of the business problem and associated requirements to ensure identification of risks, customer, and enterprise impact.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree specializing in computer science, information technology, project management, business administration, or closely related field from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.
• Incumbent must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, unless the Bank grants an accommodation based on a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief.
• Senior or advanced understanding of subject. Has in depth or specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in discipline.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate and explain complex technical concepts to non-technical individuals.
• Agile experience preferred

Our Total Rewards programs offers benefits that go beyond the basics featuring:

• Market-leading Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• 401k/Thrift Plan
• Pension Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Free Parking (Kansas City location)
• Life Insurance
• Vacation & Personal Time
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance
• Onsite Fitness Center (Kansas City location)
• Onsite Cafeteria
• Additional Convenience Benefits, Discounts and More...

This position has additional screening requirements due to the information accessed while performing the job. These additional screenings would be initiated at the time of offer acceptance and can take up to a couple of months to be completed. You can begin work before the screening is completed; however, continued employment is contingent on acceptable screening results. The areas screened may include education/employment verification, criminal history, credit history, and reference checks.

United States citizenship or lawful permanent resident alien status with at least three or more years of United States residency from the date of legal entry to the United States is required for this position.

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Full Time / Part Time
Full time

Regular / Temporary
Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No)
Yes

Job Category
Information Technology

Work Shift
First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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