Lead Business System Analyst

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Validate business rules with stakeholders and align definitions, logic, and expected outcomes.
• Curate feature-specific test data for business logic, workflows, and functional and regression testing across system modules.
• Create synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data covering edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements.
• Document upstream application data flows with application teams and architects; implement masking for sensitive non-production data.
• Evaluate and design system solutions, assess existing platforms, recommend improvements or replacements, and create diagrams and technical specifications.
• Identify legacy system inefficiencies and use value stream analysis to find bottlenecks and automation or data-driven improvement opportunities.
• Communicate with RBC partners and employees across Canada and worldwide.

Must-have 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.
• 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 in analysis, requirements, data analysis, testing, and operations.
• Familiarity with 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.

What RBC offers

• Total Rewards Program with bonuses, flexible benefits, compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Coaching and development opportunities, collaborative work, training, and flexible work/life balance options.

Schedule

• Work hours are 37.5 per week.

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