Senior Functional Analyst

• Collaborates with Product/Platform Owner, Business Partners and Product Team and Cross Functional Teams to deliver timely and with quality as per the specific need of stories
• Supports user stories focused on configuring package software or performing other highly technical tasks for the agile team
• Responsible for collaborating with the team to understand and propose solutions to configure package software or custom software development
• Provides highly specialized technical skills to according to the specific needs of stories during each iteration
• Ensures design and development standards are being followed to minimize rework
• promotes only quality-tested code and does it on a frequent basis
• Acts as a key stakeholder or backup for Product Owner in the daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to update progress, highlight and resolve impediments
• Reviews required documentation to communicate information to deployment, maintenance, service and business teams
• Actively suggests solutions to drive down technical debt
• Provides mentorship to junior FAs and BAs through Community of Practice and other informal forums and may supervise FAs in a team that does not have senior developers or a tech lead
• Lead functional analysis for the domain/software related to Mergers & Acquisitions & Foldouts
• Lead functional analysis for domain/software RFP process
• Lead SME around product(s) function and works with Product Owner and Business Partners to refine requirements/functionality
• Lead training of software package to key stakeholders as required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent for the specific roles responsibilities
• 5-8 years of experience in configuration of software packages
• Strong understanding of Scrum, Lean, XP, Kanban & other agile frameworks
• Strong knowledge of continuous integration / continuous delivery practices
• Demonstrated “agile-development” mindset with strong customer-focus & results-orientation
• Ability to excel in a fast paced agile environment, adapt to shifting urgencies, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Excellent communication skills to effectively manage key business stakeholder relationships, and where required – customer and supplier partnerships/relationships
• Highly proficient in teamwork and collaboration skills

application development is a nice to have, not required for a Sr Functional Analyst