Business Analyst (need Maths degree) - urgent
- Employer
- Initialize IT
- Location
- London
- Salary
- 520.00 GBP Daily
- Closing date
- 1 Mar 2021
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- Sector
- Telecoms / Utilities
- Responsibilities
- Information Technology
- Position/Level
- Professional / Specialist
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Language
- English
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Business Analyst (need Maths degree) - inside IR35 ideally with Agile and Financial Services/Insurance experience.
You will have experience of projects with mathematical domains - eg calculation engines - to help drive one a flag ship project within the reinsurance sector. You will help develop a next generation calculation engine product which will help the business modelling teams understand the impact of various scenarios.
Key Skills & Experience
- Five years plus experience
- Confident in challenging assumptions and working with the business to define an mvp for a product
- Ability to create and sustain effective stakeholder relationships, across all levels
- Resilient and proactive with a strong delivery focus
- Strong modelling skills across the data, application and business process domains using standard modelling conventions (ie UML, BMPN, etc)
- Ability to become familiar with complex, abstract business domains quickly
- Experience of projects with a mathematical basis (statistics, Actuarial maths etc)
- Strong SQL (ie the ability to reverse engineer code)
Nice to have Skills & Experience
- Ability to effectively structure backlogs to define a product using epics and features aligning both business needs and technical architecture
- Ability to write clear, testable user stories using Gherkin acceptance criteria
- Ability to lead Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning Sessions, Iteration Planning Sessions and Project Discovery Sessions, and Backlog Refinement Sessions
- Expert understanding of SCRUM methodology
- Solid experience working in an Agile team to agree and develop system/product designs based on user requirements and specify these as user stories
- Experience of using Azure Devops Tooling
- Experience in creating & maintaining backlogs for microservice architectures
- Understanding of Actuarial mathematics
- Understanding of Catastrophe modelling
- Experience of working on projects within the reinsurance domain
- Experience of calculation engine projects
- Experience of projects using the Microsoft Azure stack
Qualification requirements
- Degree Educated in a STEM subject - must have
- Certified Scrum Master - Beneficial
- Certified Product Owner - Beneficial
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