IT Business Analyst (Technology Solution Analyst)

CME Group; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial market is seeking an IT Business Analyst to enhance their technology solutions. You will join a collaborative team responsible for analyzing requirements and delivering technical solutions for core trading systems. Ideal candidates possess strong problem-solving and communication skills, with a background in business analysis or quality assurance. This role features diverse responsibilities ranging from project analysis to stakeholder collaboration. Enjoy benefits like hybrid working and support for ongoing education.

Benefits

Bonus Programme

Equity Programme

Private Medical and Dental coverage

Mental Health Benefit Programme

Group Pension Plan

Income Protection

Life Assurance

Gym Membership

Education Assistance

Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of business systems, quality assurance, or related analysis experience.
• Experience in product development and Agile methodologies.
• Prior experience in technology-based projects.

Responsibilities

• Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis.
• Define and describe data, mapping specifications, and solution interfaces.
• Developing acceptance criteria for automated testing.

Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Negotiation

Facilitation

Technical Analysis

Education

Degree in Business, Information Systems, or Computer Science

Tools

Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)

Job description

IT Business Analyst (Technology Solution Analyst)

IT Business Analyst (Technology Solution Analyst)

The CME Markets Technology team is looking for a Technology Solution Analyst to join the global Technology solutions and architecture team. The team is responsible for providing technical analysis that drives the evolution and growth of CME's core trade execution systems that power our electronic trading platforms CME Globex, EBS Direct and BrokerTec Stream. Our systems need to be both low latency and have high reliability while continuously delivering new features.

The role will initially be focused on CME's Trade Dissemination and related systems, working in concert with the business, operations, development, and testing teams to provide creative solutions that meet the needs of our business and maintain our performance profile.

This role may be suitable for an experienced Technical Analyst who has been working in a Quality Assurance role and is considering a move into a Business Analyst role. Particularly, those with messaging experience and knowledge of relational databases.

The analyst will perform execution delivery activities like impact analysis, requirements discovery, scenario creation, test distillation, functional and logical design, as well as any other activity that empowers the team to deliver. Our primary goal is to create shared understanding and pressure test ideas while getting new features ready for production.

The ideal candidate:

• Consistently demonstrates positive energy and strong work ethic by getting things done
• Is the type of person people are naturally drawn to and enjoy working with
• Embodies high ethical character and makes good decisions

Typical responsibilities:

• Supporting elicitation, discovery, prototyping, and technical business analysis activities.
• Performing project analysis work such as detailed requirement build out and user story analysis.
• Define and describe data and mapping specifications, messaging protocols (JSON, FIX), and solution interfaces (Web APIs)
• Discover, define, and design detailed application behaviours, logic, data modelling, flows and mappings between components.
• Contributing to the product vision and impact assessment for new projects and enhancements
• Developing acceptance criteria to support our automated testing and behavior driven development (BDD)
• Establishing trusted working relationships with your stakeholders, delivery teams and sponsors
• Partnering with DEV and QA on solution assessment and validation
• Contributing to and managing an ever-evolving knowledge base.

You'd be a good fit if you have:

• 3-5 years of business systems, quality assurance, architecture or related analysis experience
• Experience in product development, SDLC, Agile methodologies and practices
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Prior experience in supporting and implementing technology based projects
• The ability to work with individuals at all levels of the organization as well as external customers and vendors
• Great facilitation, negotiation and influence skills
• Excellent problem solving thought process and mentality
• A degree in business, information systems, computer science or similar. Relevant experience could also substitute

Great, but not required:

• Experience in Financial Markets (e.g. Futures, Options, Cash, OTC, exchange-based, FCM, brokerage, middle and back office, private equity, proprietary trading)
• Knowledge of financial products, electronic trading, order management, market data, clearing, or post-trade processing
• Understanding of acceptance test driven development (ATDD), behavior driven development (BDD) or domain specific language (DSL) automated testing
• Experience with visual modeling, message design + flow, process modeling, and/or data modeling tools (FIX, SBE, GPB, FAST, XML)
• Knowledge of relational databases, XML, JSON, object oriented programming languages, cloud based integrations and tools
• Prior experience using Atlassian products (e.g. JIRA, Confluence)

Company Benefits:

• Bonus Programme
• Equity Programme
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Private Medical and Dental coverage
• Mental Health Benefit Programme
• Group Pension Plan
• Income Protection
• Life Assurance
• Cycle To Work
• EV Car Benefit Scheme
• Gym Membership
• Family Leave
• Education Assistance - MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
• Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
• Hybrid Working

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