Senior Business Analyst

Position Summary

This position will work with the Capital Markets, Risk and Finance area of the bank. The Senior Business Analyst will serve in a leadership role on requirements projects to ensure that business, organizational and/or system requirements are planned for, elicited, analyzed, validated, documented, reviewed, and tested and perform project coordination between IT and business units to deliver projects.

Primary Success Factors

• Participates in all business analysis body of knowledge areas, including:

  • Analysis planning and monitoring; requirements elicitation and analysis; business requirements management; and communication and solution assessment and validation

• As a senior level business resource, this role is sought out for complex and moderate risk projects that align with the skill set

• Creates and/or provides input to project plans as they pertain to requirements

• Leads requirements review sessions with subject matter experts and prepares thorough requirements documentation

• Ensures that requirements diagrams, models and definitions are complete, consistent, and meet the needs of the project

• Ensures that test conditions and test scripts are created and validated for user acceptance testing

• Develops a sound knowledge of the Bank’s macro business processes and related applications

• Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations to ensure safe and sound business operations

• Works with project manager / program manager to help with effort and cost estimation activities, project scheduling and planning, identifying risks and issues with projects, and suggesting mitigation alternatives 

• Performs quality assurance testing functions by: 

  • Designing and executing detailed test plans and test cases to verify that the software meets requirements; identifying problems and defects that should be corrected prior to implementation; ensuring that the system delivers the required specifications;

  • Verifying that the system responds in an acceptable manner within the Bank's network environment; performing regression testing to verify that all pre-existing code still works properly;

  • Utilizing testing tools as necessary for defect tracking, automated testing, and simulated load testing.

• Takes part in the weekly production support rotation for the initial triage of issues (and in some cases completes the resolution depending upon skill set and working knowledge of the application)

• Ensures that issue impact, resolution and root cause are thoroughly documented

• Develops strong networking skills and relationships with business stakeholders

Required Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems / business administration or equivalent work experience; Master’s degree preferred

• Seven or more years of experience in information systems, with an emphasis on the requirements life cycle, development and testing

• Seven or more years of experience leading testing efforts, and/or dedicated staff to complete significant systems design, testing and/or implementation

• Banking experience preferred

• Knowledge of requirements analysis techniques

• Experience in Agile methodologies (e.g. SAFe Scrum)

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills

• Knowledge of current best practices, methodologies, standards, and approaches to Business Analysis

• Excellent oral communication skills to lead meaningful and engaged review sessions with stakeholders

• Effective networking skills and can build strong relationships with business (e.g., customer) stakeholders

• Strong written communication skills

• General understanding of SQL and databases is preferred

It is the policy of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation or status as a parent as defined by applicable law. It is the Bank's policy to comply with applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.