Lead Solutions Analyst

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution located in Glasgow is seeking an experienced Business Analyst. The role involves defining software requirements and ensuring delivery aligns with user expectations within an agile product-centric framework. Candidates should have experience in major asset classes and excellent communication skills. Additionally, expertise in investment banking landscapes and transformation initiatives will be beneficial. Join this exciting challenge to help modernize the investment platform.

Qualifications

• Experience in at least one major asset class, such as equities or fixed income.
• Skilled in agile methodologies and product-centric workflows.
• Strong communication abilities to ensure effective collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Write user stories and turn business requirements into software system requirements.
• Conduct testing with automation and showcase sprint outputs.
• Help squads deliver great solutions for customers.
• Deliver key business functionality and manage data migrations.

Skills

Experience in major asset classes

Agile, product-centric working

Excellent communication skills

Exposure to large scale transformation initiatives

Job description

Overview

As a Business Analyst in theInternational Private Bank Platform Modernisation programme, you will be responsible for defining the requirements of the solutions working closely with other functional areas such as front office, back office, design, legal, risk and compliance. You will ensure that thedevelopersin the core deliverable squads understand exactly what they need to make the software do, and you will helpvalidatethat the software does what is intended and that it has agreat user experience.

The International Private Bank is undertaking amajor, multi-year, multi-million-dollartransformation initiative. The programme will change almost every part of the platform fromback officetofront office, in order to deliver a modern solution that enables the business toscaleeffectively and flexibly. A particular area of focus is ourinvestments platform, which we are re-engineering completely – this coversall major asset classes(equities, fixed income, FX, OTC and listed derivatives, structured products and alternatives) as well as associated cash management, Lending and Deposit products.

The private bank has moved to anagile, product-centric model for the delivery of the IPB Platform Modernisation programme, encompassing multiple delivery squads made up of all relevant business functions with the goal of delivering a first-class investments platform.

Job responsibilities

• Writinguser stories, and turningbusiness requirementsand expectations intotangible softwaresystem requirements
• Working withusersandstakeholdersto define, plan, and conducttestingwith automation where feasible, and showcasing the output of each sprint
• Helping each squad as a whole deliver agreatsolution for ourcustomers
• Delivering of key business functionality, as well as more technically oriented areas of the programme such as data migrations and interfaces to other platform applications.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience in at least one of themajor asset classes(equities, fixed income, FX, OTC and listed derivatives, structured products or alternatives) – in any part of thelifecycle(e.g. front office, middle office and asset servicing, back office)
• Experience of anagile, product-centric way of working
• Excellent communicationskills to help everyone in the squad understand what is needed to create solutions
• Exposure to large scale transformation initiatives

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Experience of Temenos / Transact in an investment context
• Exposure to Investment Banking landscape, products and regulation