Senior Business Analyst

EPAM Systems Inc; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

First Derivative, an EPAM Company, in Toronto is expanding its practice and seeking a Senior Business Analyst. You will work with investment banks and markets firms to break down complex problems, define data/process/technology requirements, and drive solutions across trading, post-trade, or data analytics platforms.

You will collaborate with business stakeholders, technology teams, and SMEs to deliver solutions and support implementation, while leveraging agile methods and strong communication

Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage stakeholders and gather requirements across business and regulatory domains.
• Experience delivering business analysis in capital markets or financial services.
• Proficient with agile practices and tooling (Jira, Confluence).
• Able to translate complex business problems into clear specifications.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate Agile product teams in story management and grooming sessions.
• Capture and document business and regulatory requirements via workshops and interviews.
• Create BRDs, functional specs, process flows, and user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, QA, and operations throughout delivery.
• Lead UAT activities and ensure test coverage and defect reporting.
• Translate regulatory obligations and business strategy into actionable requirements.

Skills

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile experience

Requirements gathering

Data analysis

Analytical thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Jira

Confluence

SQL

Linux

Job description

First Derivative, an EPAM Company, is expanding its Toronto Practice and is seeking talented, ambitious, and commercially aware Senior Business Analysts to join our growing team. This is an exciting opportunity to work on high-profile transformation and regulatory change programmes with leading investment banks, capital markets firms, and financial market infrastructure providers. You will play a key role in helping clients to break down complex business problems & flows, define requirements across data, process and technology, to be implemented on or across one of more platform such as trading, post trade or data analytic platforms. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with business stakeholders, technology teams, and subject matter experts to analyse requirements, deliver solutions, and support the successful implementation.

Responsibilities

• Agile & Story Management: Facilitate Agile product teams in story and feature management, conduct story slicing to optimize delivery, and lead technical grooming sessions
• Gather, analyse, and document business and regulatory requirements through workshops, interviews, and stakeholder engagement
• Create business requirement documents, functional specifications, process flows, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, QA teams, and operations teams throughout the project lifecycle
• Define and execute User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, potentially including test case creation, defect management, and results reporting
• Translate complex business strategy/vision or regulatory obligations into clear functional and technical requirements

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• 6+ years of business analysis and requirements management experience within Capital Markets or Financial Services
• Experience in agile tools e.g Jira and Confluence
• Understanding of trade and transaction lifecycles across different financial products/instruments
• Strong requirements gathering, analysis, and documentation skills
• Experience working within Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively across all levels of an organisation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Experience supporting UAT and business testing activities
• Ability to interpret complex data and business processes
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Nice to have: Experience in using AI tools during the SDLC process
• Experience in defining requirements to build AI tools/agents
• Knowledge of global regulatory reporting regimes, such as EMIR, MiFID II / MiFIR, SFTR, Dodd-Frank, CFTC, etc
• Experience using SQL for data analysis and investigation
• Exposure to Linux environment