Senior Business Analyst 1647

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JOB LOCATION: OWINGS MILLS, MD

Legg Mason Technology Services seeks an individual for a Senior Business Analyst position.

JOB SUMMARY:
Identifies complex business requirements, evaluates alternative solutions and translates solutions into specifications suitable for the development or maintenance of applicable systems. Coordinates development teams on large and/or complex projects. Translates end user computing requirements for use by the Corporate Technology Department, with emphasis on Application Development Areas. Develops and implements test plans. Communicates with team, customers and vendors when changes occur. Acts as a mentor to junior staff members. Helps management to determine overall priorities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
Will work with Front Office team on performance and Thomson Integration.
Business Design - Tasks resulting in documentation of an existing or proposed business process in prescribed format
Project management - Activities in support of the completion of approved business initiatives. Activities include review and update of project deliverables, assignment of resources, status reporting, issue tracking, maintenance of project plans, coordination with other groups.
Requirements Gathering - Tasks requiring meeting with functional system users to document business processes and define system functionality.
Testing - Executing programs using predefined business cases against a test environment for purposes of debugging code or system testing applications.
Documentation - Tasks requiring creation of written documents in support of system code, design or testing.
Production support and maintenance - Tasks including programming, debugging and testing of existing applications that run in a production environment for purposes of remediation system errors or to extend application life span.

Other duties as assigned.
REQUIREMENTS
SPECIFIC BUSINESS KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Bachelors' Degree.
5-8 years experience.
Full life cycle knowledge required; project management a plus.
Has broad experience across functional areas and business systems within financial industry.
Clearly understands purposes, objectives, practices and procedures of the department and business units.
Maintains a solid knowledge of corporate and departmental information system strategies.
Has written and oral communication skills to make technical or non-technical material understandable to the business units, to make presentations to management and other personnel, and to conduct meetings and training sessions.
Financial industry, a plus.
Be prepared to carry a pager for system support outside of office hours.

SPECIFIC TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
Superior knowledge of all phases of system development life cycle, rapid application.
Development methodology preferred.
Knowledge of relational database environment, Sybase preferred.
Knowledge of Client-server concepts, (3-tier architecture concepts preferred), and GUI.
Development concepts required.
Experience with Microsoft Windows, HTML, word processing and spreadsheet application required.
Experience with UML and design patterns a plus.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
College degree in Information Systems or related discipline required; experience and training may be substituted.
3-4 years of related experience required.
Relational database experience, Object oriented concepts.

Other responsibilities as required.

Legg Mason is an Equal Opportunity Employer.