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Staff IT Analyst III - Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Western Alliance Bank
Block 23, United States, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 7 Aug 2025

About the role

Job Title:

Staff IT Analyst III - Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Location:

Block 23

What you'll do:

As a Staff IT Analyst III / Scrum Master for our National Business Lines unit, you'll lead the review of current processes and metrics that support operational effectiveness, identify constraints or opportunities that inhibit, or can accelerate, the business and technology strategy, and develop options or approaches to improve business outcomes. You'll lead work to develop and review artifacts that accurately describe current state processes, practices, and/or metrics the determine root causes for constraints in the process. You'll work closely with our agile technical delivery team, various business partners and stakeholders. You’ll play a key role in supporting the HOA program navigating the business through the systems implementation as well as mapping and alignment of critical business processes. You’ll actively identify alternative processes and practice options with associated impact on KRIs/KPIs or Operational Metrics. As the Staff IT Analyst III, you'll identify and facilitate discussions with IT, Product, and Business subject matter experts to better understand the problem statement and/or opportunity, capture relevant insights. You'll also review any findings or artifacts produced to validate the right problem or opportunity is being assessed. Additionally, you identify, socialize, and obtain approval for, as well as the upkeep of, KRIs, KPIs, and Operational Metrics.
  • Lead large complex projects with the expectation of ensuring the business outcomes are achieved. Work to gain a full understanding of how your work connects to the defined Sprint Objectives in addition to helping define the work breakdown structure for any activities. Set & meet deadlines for that work, lead discussions with stakeholders and the subject matter experts to gather requirements and review artifacts while working to resolve any issues that impede progress.
  • Develop list of critical documentation and artifacts to meet project objectives while also completing the development of high-quality deliverables through effectively communicating learnings, findings, impacts, and next steps with subject matter experts.
  • Interact directly with business partners to identify pain points, organize Agile Ceremonies, identify / resolve opportunities with design and Scrum Processes
  • Provide technical leadership and mentoring for a team of business analysts.
  • Provide agile scrum coverage in coordination with the delivery leads.
  • Leads business interviews to analyze and document current and future states along with product owner.
  • Identifies, manages and tracks business and technical objectives
  • Become a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the system processes and data structures that support HOA payments and property management company technologies.
  • Documents business, technical requirements, and/or critical business processes using textual and visual modeling techniques like user stories, journey diagrams, mental models, business process flow, use case, system flow and state diagrams.
  • Works closely with product owner, UI/UX designers, facilitate the generation of workflow, lo-fidelity and hi-fidelity wireframes.
  • Gains knowledge and support data governance team by providing data mapping, data store, its intent, meaning, context, and lineage on the enterprise data catalog
  • Understand and communicate on both technical and business front to all levels of staff and management
  • Review current documentation for applications and systems and take necessary actions as appropriate (create new, modify existing, etc.)
  • Collaborate closely with the wider technology teams to coordinate interdependencies and resolve issues and understand overlaps of teams and applications.
  • Involved with support activities for existing solutions, including regular business interactions and facilitating delivery of improvements and bug fixes as required.
  • Use deep understanding of Microsoft Office tools, Diagramming Software (e.g. Lucid, Visio, etc.), and/or other appropriate technical tools within a specific domain or functional area on the processes, data analysis, and IT governance.
  • Leverage Risk Management experience from a large financial institution subject to heightened standards, specifically in risk, compliance, or corporate governance.

What you'll need:

  • 7+ years of related experience.
  • Bachelor's degree in related field required.
  • Experience in commercial payments, banking and lending solutions and products are a plus.

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