Lead Business System Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders and align definitions, logic, and outcomes.
• Create test data for feature-specific business logic, workflows, functional testing, and regression testing.
• Design synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data covering edge cases, compliance, and performance; protect sensitive non-production data.
• Document upstream application data flows with application teams and architects.
• Evaluate system solutions, assess existing systems, recommend improvements or replacements, and produce diagrams and technical specifications.
• Identify legacy system inefficiencies and use value stream analysis to find automation and data-driven improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate with business units, software engineers, quality analysts, and RBC partners.

Required qualifications

• Strong knowledge of equities, options, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and fixed-income products.
• Strong financial services business analysis experience, including data and root-cause analysis for business and system issues.
• Ability to document business processes, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Git.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement AI opportunities in analysis, requirements, data analysis, testing, and operations.
• Familiarity with REST or SOAP APIs for system data exchange.
• Advanced SQL skills for relational data extraction, transformation, and analysis.

Preferred qualifications

• CBAP or PMI-PBA certification is preferred.
• A Master's Certificate in Business Analysis is preferred.

Benefits and development

• The posting describes total rewards, flexible benefits, training, coaching, development opportunities, and flexible work-life balance options.