SR Systems Analyst - Trade Confirmations; Stocks, I.T., DTCC - Boston

Fulltime role with Vacation & Holidays & Company Benefits – Onsite in Boston, MA

Confidential, super progressive INVESTMENT BANKING / FINANCIAL SERVICES firm with offices in 15+ countries.

Seeking an experienced I.T. (information technology) professional that will serve on the Post-Trade
Technologies team and play a critical role in providing the technology platform and support for the firm’s global Trade Coordination and Trade Operations teams to process Trade
Confirmations and Trade
Settlements with our brokers and custodians, including BBH Infomediary and the DTCC
. Senior Systems Analyst swill bridge the gap between investment professionals and IT, acting as liaisons to design, support, and scale trading, data, and stock/equities OMS (Order Management Systems) platform.

Seeking a strong (I.T.)
Senior Systems Analyst to play a key role in delivering solutions to our business partners, solve complex problems, and strive to advance and sustain a world-class platform. Since the role requires frequent interaction with both business users and IT stakeholders across multiple teams - excellent communication, collaboration and delivery skills are essential. You will work with, and learn from exceptional investment,
trading and operations professionals through cross-platform, data driven projects and assignments.

• Demonstrate a deep TECHNICAL / I.T. expertise in the specific workflows of trading stocks, bonds, swaps, etc.
• Collaborate with software developers
  , database architects, vendors and other IT and business teams to analyze and determine functional specifications and UI design for new applications and enhancements to existing applications.
• Interact directly with business partners at all levels of the organization to define, analyze, and document requirements, as well as set priorities. Act as a champion and trusted advisor for the needs of our business partners.
• Provide regular status reporting and issue tracking on projects.
• Provide input into system design to help the software development team define effort and implementation schedules.
• Provide oversight for the various phases of testing and user acceptance
  .
• On a rotational basis, provide production support to our business users and act as an escalation point person for support issues that require detailed analysis and management.
• Manage production incidents
  , determining root cause
  , appropriate corrective actions and follow-up.
• Engage in Vendor/Broker Management tasks and work with our business team to execute project work, enhancements and raise defects on vendor platforms.

• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of I.T. – Technical Software analysis of systems requirements experience. Must be great at determining “what are the users trying to solve?” “What is the workflow?”
• MUST HAVE strong understanding of financial instruments
  - equities, bonds, swaps, options, futures, forwards
  .
• Experience working directly with business partners
  , vendors, brokers and custodians to understand their needs and deliver solutions that meet those needs.
• Specific experience working with BBH Infomediary (specialized data integration and management platform), and with DTCC (central market utility that clears and settles virtually all U.S. securities trade).
• Excellent presentation, communication and client relationship skills and proven ability to build consensus.
• Candidates must possess a unique blend of business and technical savvy
  ; a big-picture vision, and an ability to work with various internal teams to execute on that vision.
• Experience writing I.T. requirements
  , functional specifications, use cases
  , and test plans.
• Experience in IT change, incident and problem management and SDLC. Experience supporting critical production software applications.
• Hands-on knowledge of SQL
  , or another relational database technology.
• Experience using project tracking tools
  , such as Jira or Service Now
  .
• Must work onsite 5 days a week in Boston, MA.
• For US-based candidates with the right skillset, we are able to transfer sponsorship of existing VISA
  s.