Capital Market/Business Analyst/Lead Business Analyst

Role & responsibilities

• Key critical role required to be the techno-functional person.
• Coordinate and embed technical standards, increase the maturity of the team, drive best practices, and ensure quality reliable, robust solutions are driven throughout the engineering team.
• Take accountability for delivery of systems changes to the assigned POD and drive artifacts delivery as per plan.
• Provide management support across other Work stream in project as required.
• Work closely with diverse Business and IT teams & gain a detailed understanding of the Business requirements.
• Identify solution options and perform solution option evaluations to get the best solution agreed.
• Supporting IT teams in issue resolution around the agreed solution to ensure that the release schedule remains on track and that functional issues are solved through appropriate, agreed solutions. 
• Embed Agile and Devops practices within the team.
• Work with the key stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions within the bank.
• Proactively push team to innovate with ideas to drive the department forward.
• Ensuring quality of deliverables and code. Establish industry standard practices of code reviews, quality checks etc.
• Removal of manual processes within the team and automate.
• Provide solutions for performance tuning of applications and improvement on the same.
• Proven proactive reporting of issues and follow through to resolution.
• Familiarity with HSBC Risk-Based Project Management (RBPM) and Agile Project Methodology
• Experience of working with global distributed team.
• Innovative and independent thinker
• Knowledge of effective delivery practices within an agile/scrum delivery cycle
• Data analysis tool expertise (e.g. SQL knowledge, database tools)

Preferred candidate profile

• 7-10+ years experience in large-scale software development
• Good to have knowledge of Google Cloud Platform 
• Appreciation of Liquidity, IRR and NCCR reporting (NSFR, LCR, NCCR Capital calculation methodology (STANDARDISED)
• Credit Risk Mitigation methods (Netting, Collateral)
• Specialist in-depth experience of investment banking, specifically OTCs, Credit Derivatives, Securities Financing Transactions (Repos and Stock, Borrow, Lending) and Exchange Traded Products is essential. 
• Demonstrable experience of data sourcing, liaising with upstream systems and ensuring end-to-end clarity of requirements across multiple teams
• Experience within IT/Finance/Risk change delivery programmes/projects is required. 
• Knowledge of SQL Queries.
• Demonstrable experience in the areas described above in a medium to large software delivery environment.
• A proven track record of the successful delivery of large-scale projects in previous domains to tight deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills, written and verbal.
• Effective communication to team members and to senior stakeholders
• Delivery of releases in an agile delivery environment as well as traditional waterfall delivery
• High levels of enthusiasm and a desire to deliver the best quality products possible along with maintaining very high service levels.
• Strong technical skills to fully understand the development process.

Perks and benefits