Responsibilities Include:

• Participate in identifying user requirements by working on teams with a number of key individuals representing business and technology.
• Document, communicate, and review requirements with product and project team members and sponsors.
• Identify and document the impact of the requirements on existing systems and data.
• Manage deadlines and work to meet feature requirements and customer expectations.
• Assist in developing of testing plans, scenarios and scripts and participate in user acceptance testing.
• Assemble, complete and distribute updates to key ISE documents for developers, testers, change management and our customers.

Experience Required:

• Must have previous experience writing business requirements and training materials.
• Must be familiar with formal requirements gathering and management process.
• Working knowledge of system design, architecture and application programming/analysis.
• In-depth understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Strong knowledge of equity or derivatives products, market data feeds, trade lifecycle and post-trade processing.
• Understanding of the FIX financial messaging protocol a plus.
• Bachelors degree in Finance, Engineering, Math, or Economics with a minimum 5-7 years of IT business analysis experience.
• Previous experience in equity or derivatives trading technology for an exchange or brokerage/financial firm is preferable.

Results Expected:

• Ability to learn details of managed applications quickly.
• Able to handle dynamic trading environment and prioritization of projects/issues among a large client base.
• Accurate and thorough requirements analysis.
• Timely completion of requirements specifications.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Management of multiple analysis projects for various applications, developed internally and by other solution providers.
• Effective communication and coordination with development, test and implementation colleagues, which will include external organization.
• Know and apply best practices in requirements management.
• Significant Exposure to network operations and implementation.