IT Business Lead Analyst - C13 - MISSISSAUGA

CITI; Mississauga; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled IT Business Lead Analyst to bridge the gap between business users and technologists. This pivotal role involves analyzing complex information, leading teams, and driving technology planning to enhance business performance. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical and communication skills, with a proven track record in application development and systems analysis. If you are passionate about technology and eager to make a significant impact within a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking organization that values innovation and collaboration.

Qualifications

• 6-10 years of experience in apps development or systems analysis required.
• Hands-on experience with Java, Microservices, and Cloud technologies is essential.

Responsibilities

• Liaise between business users and technologists to ensure clear communication.
• Participate in the full development life cycle and optimize processes.

Skills

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Leadership Skills

Interpersonal Skills

Project Management

Data Analysis

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Java

Microservices

Spring Boot

Oracle

SQL

Cloud

AWS

Front-end frameworks

Job description

The IT Business Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for liaising between business users and technologists to exchange information in a concise, logical and understandable way in coordination with the Technology team. Requires good analytical skills in order to filter, prioritize and validate potentially complex and dynamic material from multiple sources. Strong communication and diplomacy skills are required. Regularly assumes informal/formal leadership role within teams. The overall objective of this role is to contribute to continuous iterative exploration and investigation of business performance and other measures to gain insight and drive technology planning.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and development teams to identify engineering requirements, assisting in defining application, system, and process requirements, and maintain engineering relationships with the end user/client.
• Proficient at operating with considerable autonomy and discretion as you will significantly influence the way an application is designed and developed by providing subject specific expertise and an understanding of application programming principles.
• Demonstrate an advanced understanding of supported main system flows and possess a comprehensive understanding of how the system and others (i.e. architecture or infrastructure) collectively integrate to contribute towards achieving business objectives. Using this expertise, assist with the development of standards for coding, testing, debugging and implementation. This will ensure application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint.
• Participate in the full development life cycle, identify dependencies between agile and waterfall delivery, working within broadly defined parameters, including test plan execution and software quality needs.
• Communicate progress, anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, identify, assess, track and mitigate issues/risks at multiple levels.
• Recognize discordant views and take part in constructive dialog to resolve them.
• Work across teams to optimize processes.
• Regularly review metrics and proactively seek out new and improved mechanisms for visibility ensuring your program stays aligned with organization objectives.
• Continuously assess development processes, test plans, and operations.
• Work with teams to improve concurrent project delivery.
• Streamline and/or eliminate excess processes in any area of architecture, build, delivery, production operations environment, or business area where the same efforts (or issues) are repeated year-over-year.
• Assist with training activities and mentor new and junior team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of relevant experience in apps development or systems analysis role.
• Must have hands-on experience with any of the following applications development areas: Java, Microservices, Spring Boot, Oracle, SQL, Cloud, AWS, front-end frameworks, or similar technologies.
• Experience in Business Process Engineering with knowledge of BPMN and DMN.
• Project Management experience, including agile methodology.
• Proven interpersonal, data analysis, diplomatic, management and prioritization skills.
• Consistently demonstrate clear and concise written and verbal communication.
• Proven ability to manage multiple activities and build/develop working relationships.
• Proven self-motivation to take initiative and master new tasks quickly.
• Demonstrated ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and approach work methodically with attention to detail.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.