Lead Business System Analyst

Role overview

Business rules and testing

• Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders and align on definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.
• Curate feature-specific test data for business logic, workflows, and use cases to support functional and regression testing across system modules.
• Design synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data for functionality, reports, business rules, edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements.
• Implement data masking to protect sensitive information in non-production environments.

Systems and data flows

• Understand upstream applications and their data; coordinate with application teams and architects to document data flows.
• Design and evaluate system solutions, assess existing systems, recommend improvements or replacements, and create system diagrams and technical specifications.
• Identify inefficiencies in existing systems, including legacy core banking platforms, and recommend improvements.
• Conduct value stream analysis to find bottlenecks and opportunities for automation or data-driven improvement.

Collaboration

• Communicate and interact with RBC partners and employees across Canada and internationally.

Must-have qualifications

• Strong knowledge of equities, options, mutual funds, foreign exchange, and fixed-income products.
• Strong financial-services business analysis experience, including data analysis and root-cause analysis of business and system issues.
• Ability to analyze and document business processes, functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Git version control.
• Ability to identify, evaluate, and implement AI opportunities in business analysis, requirements management, data analysis, testing, and operational processes.
• API and integration knowledge, including familiarity with REST/SOAP APIs for data exchange.
• Advanced SQL proficiency for extracting, transforming, and analyzing relational database data.

Preferred qualifications

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

Benefits and development

• RBC describes a total rewards program with bonuses and flexible benefits, and development through coaching and management opportunities.
• The employer highlights collaborative work, training in financial services, work-life balance options, and challenging assignments.

Work details

• The posting lists full-time, regular, salaried employment and 37.5 work hours per week.
• The description does not specify a remote, hybrid, or on-site work arrangement.