Business Analysts with Appian

Remote

Job Responsibilities:

  • Experience in the Investment Management industry for a minimum of 12+years, ideally supporting or working with buy-side technology.
  • Understanding of various financial assets (Mutual Funds /Futures/Options/Derivatives/Equities/OTC) for account maintenance & portfolio management (Capital Market Domain -Must)
  • Configure or extract data using APIs (Must)
  • Define and implement API standards, best practices, and processes. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize API development and integrations.
  • Excellent SQL, JASON, and XML/Nesting experience.
  • Assisting clients throughout various capital market transactions and financial structures
  • Gathers and documents business requirements and specifications.  Works to understand internal client’s business above and beyond the immediate requirements.
  • Build and maintain tools that validate API best practices
  • Works with agile team and product owner to determine priority, scope and timetable for user requests.
  • Knowledge of building enterprise-class applications at scale
  • Works as part of an agile delivery technology team collaborating with other developers
  • Converts requirements into user stories, updates and creates functional specifications. 
  • Acts as the liaison between internal business groups and the development staff to ensure proper implementation of requirements within the expected timetable. 
  • Follows the prescribed SDLC processes. Communicates any material modifications of the business requirements to the client.
  • Provides application and production support to internal clients.
  • Manage the developer relationship program, including onboarding, training, and support for external developers
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills
  • Continuously improve the API governance process through data-driven decision making and experimentation

Required skills and qualifications

  •       Experience in the Investment Management industry for a minimum of 8-12 years, ideally supporting or working with buy-side technology.
  •       Good understanding in Trading Life Cycle & having good Capital market domain knowledge.
  •       Strong technical knowledge around data harvesting, and data base mapping to support daily business processes. 
  •       Experience with distributed systems and service architectures
  •       Hands-on development on Appian BPM applications.
  •       Data Management through Complex Data Types XSDs and SQL queries, Custom plugin development.
  •       Should be able to effectively contribute in the area of screen and workflow designs for moderate sized projects.
  •       Strong understanding of API design and development, as well best practices in Business Process Management
  •       An awareness of OpenAPI, JSON Schema, and other API specifications
  •      Excellent SQL, JASON, and XML/Nesting  experience.
  •      Extensive experience with equity, fixed income currency and derivative based securities
  •      Solid problem-solving skills with the ability to develop, build and test thoroughly creative solutions to meet business needs.
  •      Proven independent and focused worker who implements systematic solutions for our trading stakeholders.  
  •      Proven documentation and analytical skills for gathering business requirements, functional specifications, and test plans.
  •      Experience working in Agile Scrum development teams and knowledgeable of Agile Scrum processes and participation in associated ceremonies/events.

Preferred skills and qualifications

  •       Direct experience working with trading systems and an understanding of program and algorithmic trading workflows.  (Preferred to work on CRD (Charles River Development/CRIMS Charles River Development Investment Management System).
  •       Application Development and updating (Appian), Application Integrations, Application Maintenance, Applications Architecture, Detail-Oriented, Enterprise Application Delivery, Problem Solving, Programming Languages, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), System Applications
  •      Good understanding of Appian Objects such as Records, Sites, Actions, Process Models, Constants, Decisions, Integrations (Web API, Connected Systems etc), Data Stores, Groups, etc.
  •        Participate in the day-to-day activities of the Appian BPM development teams.

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