Senior Systems Analyst

Job Description:

Operating in the UAE for over 50 years, CBD manages the financial requirements of some of the largest corporates and businesses operating in the country, driving the UAE economy. Over the years, CBD has transformed into a progressive and modern banking institution winning multiple awards for its digital initiatives, credit cards, bank accounts, mobile app features and services.

Job Purpose:

Liaise with business owners/managers and translate Business Requirements to IT initiatives. Service as Senior representative of IT to Business and vice versa. Attend internal client meetings, understand their requirements and act as a bridge between business and IT to deliver end to end solution. Author Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Specification Document (FSD), Process flows and User Stories (where applicable). Support Business and project teams throughout project, both during requirements gathering, planning, User Acceptance testing preparation and execution and go live. Ensure the correct implementation according to agree requirements and/or user stories

Job Responsibilities:

• Highlight product features and business requirements in a manner clearly understandable to the development team
• Constantly exchange ideas with product owners within an organization
• Discover, organize and clarify business needs and review/produce specifications for change
• Prioritize requirements from various stakeholders
• Communicate, translate and simplify business requirements to ensure buy-in from all stakeholders.
• Attend sprint planning and demo meetings to give feedback on sprint achievement, as well as to scrum team (where applicable)
• Understand and assess Business needs
• Manage and develop product backlog, as well as user stories backlog for implementation (where applicable)
• Work with wider project and business team to document system scenarios, identify roles impacted and help develop a change management/training plan
• Conduct backlog grooming meetings with a team of product owners (where applicable)
• Liaise with business owners/manager to translate Business Requirements to IT initiatives.
• Attend internal and external client meetings, understand requirements and act as a bridge between business and IT to deliver end to end solution
• Work with the development team to ensure they understand the specifications
• Serve as a voice to project the expectations of customers on new or already existing products
• Assess product value stream to identify areas that require improvements

Job Requirements:

• More than 10 years’ experience proving exposure to Banking Business and IT
• Graduation degree or more
• More than 8 years’ experience as Agile PO (partially possible as Business analyst), Managing Projects and teams.