Bilingual Information Technology Business Analyst - SWIFT

Tech Talent International; Montreal; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

9% Bonus

4 weeks paid vacation

6% RRSP matching

Benefits & sick/personal day

Cell phone allowance

Transit discounts

Job summary

Tech Talent International is hiring a bilingual Information Technology Business Analyst - SWIFT for a major investment bank in the Montreal area. The role can be permanent or long-term contract and requires working knowledge of Swift messaging and 24/7 operations.

The candidate will redesign the functional architecture for SWIFT messaging and sanctions filtering, produce data flow diagrams, test strategies, and user stories, and document new architecture and support procedures.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in Business Analysis.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
• General banking knowledge and IT literacy.
• Experience with payment processing.
• Experience with SWIFT messaging and related standards (ISO20022, API).

Responsibilities

• Support and deploy software applications and data flow solutions in the payments domain.
• Create end-to-end data flow, interfaces, and feature definitions.
• Apply SDLC with requirements elicitation, analysis, stakeholder management, and test coordination.
• Create functional specifications and use-case documentation.
• Coordinate activities to support project deliveries.

Skills

Business Analysis

SDLC knowledge

Agile & Waterfall

Payment processing

Data flow design

Tools

SWIFT messaging

Job description

Tech Talent International (SI) supplies technical talent to a variety of clients ranging from Fortune 100/500/1000 companies to small and mid-sized organizations in Canada/US and Europe.

We currently have a role as an Bilingual Information Technology Business Analyst - SWIFT with our large IT consulting client, working for a major investment bank in the Montreal area. This role can either be a permanent role or a long term contract.

Role: Bilingual Information Technology Business Analyst - SWIFT

Type: Permanent or Long Term Contract

Salary: Base salary ranges from $95,000 - $100,000 (depending on experience) + 9% bonus + 3-4 weeks paid vacation + 6% RRSP matching + benefits + sick/personal day + cell phone allowance + discounts for public transit and may other perks

Contract Pay Rate: $75 - $80/hr (freelance/incorporated)

Key Info: Candidates must be based out of the Montreal area

Job Overview

The scope of work is to provide the efforts to redesign the functional architecture for SWIFT messaging and Sanctions Filtering to achieve 24/7 operation. The technical business analyst is required in order to produce the data flow, detailed specifications, test strategy, user stories of the projects. That includes the redesign and enhancement of core messaging and filtering infrastructure, as well as documenting new architecture, maintenance and support procedures.

Key Duties

• Technical and functional activities supporting and deploying software applications and data flow solutions in the domain of payment and cash management.
• Create the end-to-end data flow of a new product, including definition of user interfaces, systems interface and applications features.
• Practice of SDLC including business requirements elicitation, gathering, clarification, and analysis; stakeholder management; end-to-end test coordination.
• Creating functional, use case analysis and documentation.
• Taking initiative and coordination of activities to support project deliveries.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of relevant experience in Business Analysis
• Strong knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Agile and Waterfall methodology
• General banking knowledge, general IT knowledge
• Experience with payment processing
• Settlement and clearing in USD, including SWIFT messaging, Fedwire, CHIPS, Fedline, FIN, FIN+, CBPR+, ISO20022, API, Sanctions
• Filtering experience is considered an asset