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What You’ll Do

OCC is seeking an individual who would be responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of internal and external sources, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a proven change agent that demonstrates the ability to solve complex problems through logical, digestible solutions that deliver key value to our stakeholders. Additionally, this individual must be comfortable communicating to all levels of the organization as well as inside and outside the organization. Skills that are foundational to the success of this role include, but are not limited to, communication, analytical, problem solving, process modelling, facilitation, elicitation, scope management, leadership and agile mindset.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each primary duty satisfactorily.

Product Responsibilities:

• Act as a partner to both the business and the technology teams.

• Define requirements definition approach and quality standards.

• Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in depth understanding of current state (i.e., legacy system) and future state. 

• Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution.

• Elicit, interpret, lead requirement workshop discussions with vendors, stakeholders and/or product owners; assist in the development of acceptance criteria.

• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.

• Build models and prototypes.

• Analyze, prioritize and assure quality of defined requirements.

• Establish traceability from business needs to solution.

Program Responsibilities:

• Work cross-functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business needs.  

• Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design.

• Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals.

• Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories.

• Provide requirement and design support to scrum team.

• Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams.

• Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification.

• Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria for integrated components.

• Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories.

• Assists in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and documentation to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the enterprise.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of business analysts working across products; Responsible for the quality and adherence to the analysis best practices.

• Key resource regarding analyst inquiries as it relates to assigned pillar (Project Intake Impact Analysis).

• Orchestrate cross-functional implementation of project changes, validating that all interdependent applications fulfill established requirements according to agreed specifications and timelines.

Qualifications:

The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the primary functions.

• Expert in Agile software development.

• Proficient business experience in clearinghouse activities.

• Flexibility working with remote teams in alternate time zones and flexibility to work outside standard working hours (i.e., 6:30-7 am CT).

• Self-motivated and self-starting; working with little supervision and picking up new and unfamiliar concepts.

• Proficient in Confluence and Jira.

• Proficient in process modeling tools such as Visio.

• Working knowledge of OTC and exchange-traded derivatives products.

• Familiarity with financial market infrastructure and settlement processes.

Technical Skills:

• Knowledge and experience in event driven applications, streaming and batch analytics technologies.

• Knowledge and experience in cloud technologies; experience working with AWS a plus.

• Experience with differ