The Business Transformation Consultant is responsible for building and supporting the big data platform. As a Business Transformation Consultant – Big Data, your responsibilities include –
- Work closely with business stakeholders, process owners, and users to understand the service/product requirements
- Work closely with solution architects and designers to translate the business requirements into epics, features, and stories used by the delivery team
- Liaise with stakeholders, external parties, and/or research to understand Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) to help ensure that the solution meets relevant standards and other system/solution quality requirements
- Become a bridge between key client business stakeholders, project/iteration managers, solution architects/designers, developers, and testers
- Understand the client’s Divisional and Group objectives and strategies to support managing the product’s business and technology stakeholders.
- Understand the trade-off between quality, benefits, risk, budget, time to market, and user experience and effectively communicate it to key project stakeholders
- Provide support to the team, work closely with the project/iteration managers to remove team impediments, and lead by example
To ensure success in the role you will possess the following skills –
- Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a tech BA or equivalent in IT Consulting or other technology business units across the industry
- Minimum of 3+ years of business analysis experience in data initiatives such as data governance, modernisation, migration, reporting, analytics, information management, and data quality.
- Needs banking analytics/data science understanding and credit decisioning a bonus
- Diverse practical experience in project delivery frameworks such as Scaled Agile, Distributed Agile, Agile Sprints, Kanban, Waterfall, etc
- Skills include documenting requirements into a formalised structure such as requirement specification document and Agile epic, story, etc
- Whilst not mandatory, project management skills such as Project Planning, Budgeting, Performance Management, Scheduling, Staffing, PM Methods, Performance Management, Scope Management, Contractual Deliverables, Change Control, and Risk Management will be looked upon favourably
- Banking or Financial Services industry experience will be looked up favourably
- Solid understanding of various data professional roles and responsibilities
- Understanding of concepts of business-critical design, services sensitive to performance SLAs with high availability, fault-tolerance, automatic fail-over, and geographical redundancy
- Experience delivering projects based on Cloud Platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP and IBM, and other modern data platforms
- Understanding of containerisation, virtualisation, infrastructure, and networking
- Understanding of software development life cycle and methodologies
- Experience in presenting to and influencing stakeholders and senior managers
- Team leadership and people manager experience
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related Engineering courses
- One or more industry-recognised technology or project delivery certifications or badges
