Northern Trust
Business Process Specialist (Client Onboarding) (Finance)
Major Duties:
•Provides software solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying process flow, data usage, and work processes; investigating problem areas; following the software development lifecycle.
•Provides technical expertise at the highest level including training/leadership/guidance to other application or business architecture staff, ensuring secure coding and robust architecture guidelines are met.
•Thoroughly understands decision processes of workflow technology choice, such as process capabilities, data interfacing, client server communication, industry standard paradigms and new industry trends, etc.
•Provides in-depth technical consultation to the clients, partners, and IT management to develop plans and directions to assure the integration of corporate business area requirements.
•Works within an Agile scrum team framework. Taking stories and tasks through sprint, participates actively with product backlog refinement, daily standup and bi-weekly sprint boundary meetings.
•Consults with partners from systems and other business units regarding new techniques, practices, or technologies in data processing and the impact of proposed and ongoing projects.
•Provides L3 Support for production environment, assist in diagnosis and resolution of incidents, and maintain stability and integrity of application and systems.
•Develops and executes software deployment/migration plans and ensures robust quality software components are installed into production environment during change management cycles.
•Maintains technical documentation, process flow, sequence, BPD, data flow and systems architecture diagrams.
Qualifications - Required Skills:
•Expertise as Business Analyst/Process specialist in a client onboarding/administration environment in Financial Trading and Portfolio Management applications.
•Experience developing Software Applications using workflow tools - Appian, BPM that automates business processes and workflows.
•Expertise in diagramming tools for UML sequence/class/communication diagrams, data flow, system and process communication.
•Experience with large and complex systems for both internal and external clients.
•Strong technical leadership, mentorship, analytical and problem solving skills.
•A positive goal oriented attitude with a focus on delivery.
Recommended:
•Experience as a solution architect and integration specialist for Financial Trading and Portfolio Management applications. •Experience with intelligent automation, robotic process automation, intelligent document processing and smart workflow capabilities. •Experience with Blackrock Aladdin, Eagle, FiServ front and back office products. •Deep understanding of security architecture - web application security, identity management, access controls, authentication and authorization concepts. •Expertise with data exchange technologies - XML, XSL Transforms, JSON. •Experience with Service Oriented Architecture (SOAP/REST APIs) and messaging technologies. Qualifications:
•Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
•Overall 10+ Years of Industry experience in IT.
•Experience in agile development methodology.
•Experience as hands-on software developer.
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