Requirements Engineer
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Overview of business area or project:
The role is providing IT Business Analysis functions for the Investment Bank’s Global Credit Risk systems within the Credit Risk IT department, consisting of a number of high-profile global applications, with a user base running to several thousands.
Working as a Credit Risk IT (BA) within in the Zurich office on key Global Credit Risk projects. This role will involve working as a Requirements Engineer on the Intraday Credit Risk system employed by the Private Bank called TLS. TLS calculates Derivatives Credit Risk exposure, mainly focused on FX, Interest Rate (IR), equities.
Key Responsibilities:
Specific Tasks / Responsibilities
- Gather and review business requirements
- Analyzing impact of changes to the existing processes and system flows as well as documentation
- Coordinate with Credit Risk IT partners on the readiness for SIT / UAT / Regression
- Track and facilitate issues resolutions during SIT / UAT / Regression
- Support Business Users and Developers during the whole software lifecycle
Deliverables:
- Requirements Plan
- Functional System Spec / Technical Spec
- Logical Data Model
- Use cases, Interface Specs, Business Rules, Screen Description
The projects impacting the TLS system will include changes to the system driven by regulatory changes that impact feeds, calculations and reporting.
Overview of the department / team (team size, backgrounds, personalities …):
Credit Risk IT is an expanding department with staff in locations across the globe. The department supports the bank’s ability to monitor counterparty credit risk exposures and satisfy regulatory reporting requirements.
TLS team is co-located in ZH and WRO, the RE team consists of currently 5 Res
Challenges Contractor will be facing in this role:
Stakeholder management with different stakeholders including business stake holders and various IT teams
Essentials Skills and Qualifications:
- At least 7 years professional experience in relevant business analysis and functional specification design with experience in Private and/or Investment Banking
- Understanding business processes, financial products (especially derivatives), risk
- Experience in banking or finance industry preferably focusing on risk management or front to back trade flows. (An understanding of Credit Risk concepts and terminology is desirable).
- Experience in system implementation / projects and testing experience
- Strong knowledge ( fluency) of SQL
- Experience Analyzing, writing of test cases
- Team Worker with excellent organizational, problem solving, and written/verbal communication skills
Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- BDD / Feature File experience welcome
- Experiences as Scrum Team member welcome
Candidate Value Proposition:
TLS is a Bank’s internal development that is currently rapidly moving to use strategic calculators and providing risk results to the consumers as fast as possible also intra-day
If you think this could be the right role for you, please feel free to apply online or please contact Agnieszka Wojcik directly (agnieszka.wojcik@harveynash.com / +41 44 296 88 41).