Lead Business System Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders, aligning definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.
• Curate feature-specific test data for business logic, workflows, functional testing, and regression testing.
• Design synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data covering edge cases, compliance, and performance scenarios.
• Document upstream application data flows in collaboration with application teams and architects.
• Implement data masking to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.
• Evaluate systems and solutions, recommend improvements or replacements, and create system diagrams and technical specifications.
• Identify inefficiencies in legacy and other systems; analyze value streams for bottlenecks, automation, and data-driven improvements.
• Coordinate frequently with RBC partners and employees across Canada and worldwide.

Required qualifications

• Strong knowledge of equities, options, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and fixed-income products.
• Strong business analysis experience in financial services, including data analysis and root-cause analysis.
• Ability to document business processes, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Git version control.
• Ability to identify and implement AI opportunities across business analysis, requirements management, data analysis, testing, and operations.
• Knowledge of REST/SOAP APIs and advanced SQL proficiency 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

• Total Rewards program includes bonuses and flexible benefits, with competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Development coaching, training in financial services, flexible work-life balance options, and challenging work are offered.

Work arrangement

• The role involves frequent interaction with RBC partners and employees located across Canada and worldwide.