Senior Business Analyst: Capital Markets - VR-121767

Project Description:

We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with 8+ years of experience to drive requirements for complex data- and AI- intensive solutions across Capital Markets domain, including Market Data, Asset Valuation, Trade Lifecycle, and CLM. You will lead and structure AI/ML requirements and work with big data ecosystems and semantic knowledge modeling (ontologies, RDF/OWL, SPARQL).

The ideal candidate also brings prior hands-on experience as a QA Engineer or Software Developer as well as excellent communication skills.

You'll partner with business stakeholders, architects, data scientists, and engineering teams to define end-to-end requirements that are testable, scalable, and ready for delivery.

Responsibilities:

Business Analysis & Delivery:

• Lead the full requirements lifecycle: elicitation, analysis, documentation, prioritization, validation, and sign-off.

• Translate business objectives into user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, process models (BPMN/UML), data mappings, and interface specifications.

• Maintain traceability across business requirements, functional specs, test artefacts, and releases.

• Facilitate backlog refinement, sprint planning, and UAT with measurable acceptance criteria.

• Frame business cases for AI/ML features (NLP-based automation, decision support, predictive scoring, anomaly detection) for Market Data, Asset Valuation, Risk, Regulatory, Trade Lifecycle and Client Lifecycle Management platforms.

• Define data readiness, model inputs/outputs, explainability needs, quality metrics, and human-in-the-loop review processes.

• Work closely with ML engineers and data scientists to align model assumptions and acceptance criteria with business value.

• Partner with data engineering teams on big data pipelines, batch/stream processing, and data quality requirements.

• Design semantic models/ontologies (RDF/OWL), define vocabularies/taxonomies, and capture lineage/metadata needs.

• Write or validate SPARQL queries for data discovery, impact analysis, and functional validation.

Stakeholder & Governance

• Actively engage in workshops with trading, risk, compliance, operations, and technology stakeholders to align on outcomes and priorities.

• Contribute to governance, change management, risk assessments, and controls.

• Produce high-quality documentation in Confluence (or equivalent) and maintain living artefacts.

• Facilitate or contribute to aligning requirements with parallel delivery streams.

Mandatory Skills:

Big Data

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 8+ years of hands-on Business Analysis experience in Capital Markets or adjacent financial domains.

• solid business domain knowledge in Private Equity/Market Risk OR CapMarkets Fraud/Anomaly

• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills.

• Previous industry experience as a QA Engineer or Software Developer. Ability to speak developers language.

• Demonstrated expertise in:

o Capital Markets processes (trading, pricing, derivatives/fixed income, post-trade, regulatory).

o Rating Agency workflows or credit assessment processes.

o Valuation requirements (pricing inputs, curves, model outputs, controls).

• Strong modeling and documentation skills: user stories, use cases, acceptance criteria, BPMN/UML, data mapping, interface specs.

• Big data environments and large-scale analytical workflows.

• Agile/Scrum delivery experience.

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Ontologies, RDF/OWL, and semantic frameworks; ability to query with SPARQL.

• Experience with knowledge graphs, triple stores, or graph databases.

• Exposure to model risk management, explainable AI, and responsible AI principles.

• Familiarity with market data providers, pricing libraries, risk engines, or regulatory reporting platforms.

Languages:

English: C1 Advanced