Intercontinental Exchange - Atlanta, GA

posted 4 months ago

Full-time - Mid Level
Remote - Atlanta, GA
Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities

About the position

The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is seeking a Lead Systems Analyst to join the Clearing Risk Technology Department in Atlanta, Georgia. This role is pivotal in bridging the gap between business and technology, requiring a broad skillset that enables effective communication of complex topics to a diverse audience. The Lead Systems Analyst will play a crucial role in ensuring that business users feel confident that their issues are well understood, which is essential for the successful implementation and delivery of projects by the development and quality assurance teams. The systems developed will provide critical clearing services to global banks and commodity traders, supporting economies worldwide. In this position, the Lead Systems Analyst will lead the translation of business requirements into system requirements, including the creation of functional specifications, use cases, and logical flow modeling. As a key member of the Risk Technology Department, the analyst will work closely with software developers to utilize analysis artifacts that demonstrate requirements and ensure accurate implementation against business needs. The role involves interfacing with business users to gather their requirements and collaborating with database developers to design reports, prepare documentation, and provide daily support. The ideal candidate will be capable of working independently on a variety of projects while maintaining close communication with business users, development teams, and management. Success in this role will depend on the ability to interpret complex business requirements and identify key domain assumptions. The Lead Systems Analyst must also possess strong listening skills to extract detailed information from high-level requirements, ensuring that developers have a clear understanding of the tasks at hand.

Responsibilities

  • Organise and run requirements gathering sessions, reviews and issue resolution involving multiple stakeholders, jurisdictions, and time zones.
  • Work with business users across ICE Clearing houses to formulate detailed business requirements, system flows, and use case analysis for new enhancement requests.
  • Interact with the technology team to provide written functional requirements for data analytics requests, and validate the output meets the business needs.
  • Assess the impact that new systems and features have on existing systems and communicate those impacts to the appropriate internal teams and stakeholders.
  • Develop analysis artifacts including use-cases, activity diagrams, user-interface schematics, business rules, technical specifications, process flows, and API documentation.
  • Use data analysis tools (SQL, Excel, etc.) to understand and develop business requirements in the context of the data to be processed.
  • Enforce change-control procedures to ensure requirements changes are approved by stakeholders and clearly communicated to the development team.
  • Assist database developers in creating and maintaining up-to-date documentation of the data model and field level mappings.
  • Participate in system design & QA test case reviews.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or Finance, or related discipline.
  • Minimum of 7 years' experience in Business Analysis, preferably within the trading/banking sector dealing with derivative instruments; regulatory awareness is a plus.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with an ability to explain complex ideas and technical details; ability to understand Quantitative concepts and mathematical documentation.
  • Strong data analysis skills and familiarity with Oracle SQL or other database access tools.
  • Excellent understanding of use case analysis and documentation.
  • Experience working with development teams within a structured SDLC; including DB & Java developers.
  • Experience with business intelligence reporting tools, such as Tableau or Business Objects.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio).

Benefits

  • Work from home flexibility of 1 day per week.
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