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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

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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