Senior Business Analyst - Digital Banking - Canada (Remote)

Senior Business Analyst - Digital Banking - Canada (Remote)

Description:
We are seeking a Senior Business Analyst with digital banking experience. Aequilibrium is a dynamic and agile tech professional services company. This role will be integral to a collaborative and cross-functional team and contribute to innovative and impactful projects.

Who you are:
As our Senior Business Analyst, you will provide input on the entire project life cycle, from sales support, discovery, and planning (research, consulting) to the implementation phase. Reporting to the CEO, you will combine an understanding of digital transformation, software development lifecycles, technology platforms, and user interface design principles to help facilitate and support application development and delivery while ensuring project deliverables meet documented specifications.

You will be comfortable taking charge of projects by extracting, analyzing, and validating our clients' business requirements. This includes documentation reviews, stakeholder interviews, group facilitation, and other requirements-gathering exercises to articulate process flows and business needs. With this information, you will convert requirements into software development specifications for internal and external development teams using various software modeling documentation techniques.

What you will be doing:

1. Acting as a consultant and facilitator with a passion for digital and an eye for detail.
2. Assessing and identifying clients' business needs.
3. Working with stakeholders and project teams to prioritize collected requirements.
4. Documenting requirements critical to achieving business objectives.
5. Identifying and establishing project scope based on requirements analysis to define impact, outcome criteria, and measure-taking actions.
6. Acting as a customer representative to internal development teams to ensure solutions satisfy client needs.
7. Acting as an ambassador for Aequilibrium and maintaining a close relationship with the client throughout the project lifecycle.
8. Assembling, analyzing, and generating high-quality functional specifications for technical teams.
9. Presenting comprehensive business recommendations and technical functional specifications to clients.
10. Hosting and documenting internal and client meetings.
11. Optimizing and improving requirements gathering and documentation processes in strategy group based on best practices.
12. Diffusing problems and putting forward solutions that are in the company's best interest.
13. Participating in ongoing special projects that support Aequilibrium’s work environment and strategic plans.

Qualifications & Requirements:

Must-Have:

1. 5+ years working in a business systems planning role in a Canadian tech professional services environment, fintech, or credit union.
2. Direct client engagement experience in financial services or the banking sector.
3. Experience working in an Agile environment, using cross-functional and remote teams.
4. Experience with business development (pitch support), discovery, planning, and delivery of digital banking platform integration and customization.
5. Strong written and verbal communication skills.
6. Experience with building and fostering client relationships.
7. The ability to remain calm under pressure and positively interact with multiple stakeholders whilst meeting tight deadlines in a fast-paced business environment.
8. A university degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or equivalent work experience.

Nice-to-Have:

1. Experience working on digital banking projects with platforms like BackBase, Forge, eBankIT, VeriPark, Intellect Design, or Temenos.
2. Experience with preparing and leading requirements-gathering workshops with the client leadership team focused on digital transformation, particularly relating to digital banking platforms.
3. Scrum Master and/or Product Owner Certified.

About Aequilibrium:
Aequilibrium is a Canadian award-winning technology consulting and implementation services company frequently ranked as one of the Top Five Digital Agencies, Fastest-Growing Tech Companies, Top Exporter, and Best Companies to Work for in BC. We help progressive companies become more resilient, differentiate, and grow. We enrich people's lives by crafting remarkable experiences, balancing Human & Digital, Experience & Tech, Craftsmanship & Speed. Winner of multiple VancouverUX awards for digital product design, Aequilibrium provides full-stack Digital Transformation services: Strategy, Experience Design, and Tech. Our Innovation business unit uses VR, AI, and the Cloud to craft immersive and personalized experiences for collaboration, education, and training. We are remote-first and focus on high-quality delivery by our employees. We welcome clients and job applications from candidates worldwide.

Location:
This position is 100% remote; however, only candidates who are based and eligible to work in Canada will be considered.

Salary:
The salary range for this position is CAD $110,000 - $130,000 per annum. Salary offered will be based on skills, experience, and geographical market rates.

Some of Our Benefits:

1. Fully remote work.
2. Competitive compensation rates.
3. 4 weeks of paid vacation.
4. 5 paid sick days.
5. 4 weeks sabbatical leave after 3 consecutive years of service.
6. Bonus programs.
7. Training and career development opportunities.
8. Regular in-person social events for employees based in/around Vancouver, BC or Toronto, ON.

Please note:
At Aequilibrium, we seek candidates who will contribute to our culture of valuing, respecting, supporting, and caring for each other. Diversity of thought and perspectives is critical to our success, and all applicants are considered regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, colour, age, disability, marital status, heritage, or religious or political beliefs.

Aequilibrium is trusted with highly sensitive information. Upon joining our team, you may be asked to undergo security screenings, including a criminal record check.

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