Functional Analyst
Onsite / Praha 8 /
Onsite
Lokation: Prague 8
Languages: Fluent English and Czech
Level: Senior
Form of cooperation: Contraktor
Start date: asap
Allocation: Full-Time
Allocation length: Long term
What the team is working on:
- R7 is multi-year project aiming to build Eurex' new Risk platform, capable of performing complex backend calculations and analytics on large data sets in cloud native microservice architecture. Based on a portable, modern microservice architecture, R7 will refactor and replace existing critical Risk systems, over the coming years.
- The team will focus on reviewing of new business requirements, IT analysis specification based on them, mapping requirements and system specifications and support development, test, and maintenance teams.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Understanding of business concepts and requirements and translating them into clear system specifications for our new risk system. The specifications are created in the required format
- Communicate ideas clearly and act as a liaison between various business and IT teams
- Provide advice on expected functionality to the test teams
- Work independently on tasks but also be able to cooperate within analytical and project team
- Clearly communicate, challenge and be challenged about proposed solutions
Required skills and qualifications:
- Experience in IT business and functional analysis
- Business and system requirements management, including gathering and elicitation
- Analytical and logical thinking to find best fitting long-term solutions
- Working proficiency and communication skills in English on daily basis
- Knowledge of financial markets (bonds, equities, interest rate swaps, futures, options)
- Knowledge of modeling languages, mainly UML, BPMN
- Ability to work with relational DB and basic knowledge of SQL
- A degree in a business subject, a technical / quantitative subject (Computer Science, Math / Physics, Engineering, …), or equivalent experience
- Ability to learn quickly and self-study challenging topics
Preferred skills/qualifications – the following skills would be a plus:
- Awareness of IT architecture, data modeling, cloud technologies
- Knowledge of no-SQL database technologies
- Experience with JIRA, Confluence
- Knowledge of Enterprise Architect, Bizzdesign Horizzon or similar tools
- Knowledge of big data management, no-SQL database technologies
- Knowledge of Archimate methodology
- Positive attitude to analytical and static mathematical
