Sr. Banking Data/Business Analyst

Job Description

The Sr. Banking Data/Business Analyst (Lending) role serves is a key role on the team updating and implementing various lending systems for a super-regional bank. In this role, the analyst will drive the identification and mapping of data elements from the source lending systems (origination systems, servicing systems, collection systems) into an integrated data hub that supports downstream regulatory and management reporting.

The successful candidate will be working closely with architecture teams in developing and/or updating data models for the lending subject area, and will serve as a bridge between the business users and the development and testing teams. In this role, the successful candidate will profile data, identify and prioritize business requirements, develop mapping specifications, develop testing and data quality criteria, and ensure that the data is being loaded correctly into the data warehouse environment.

Location

This role will be part of a team of data professionals working together on various loan-related projects. Members of the team will be working from remote locations across the United States. All work will be done via secure VPN/remote connections. Candidates MUST be adept at utilizing conference calling and screen sharing services such as Webex, Zoom, or GoToMeeting

Requirements

• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent documentation skills
• Expert knowledge and experience working with commercial, retail, and mortgage lending lines of business within a retail banking environment. Prefer direct experience with the AFS, Shaw, ACLS, Jack Henry, Argo, Fiserve, or ACBS systems.
• Expert knowledge of commercial and retail loan origination processes and platforms - nCino or similar
• Experience with system/platform design and conversion
• Experience accessing and profiling raw data files
• Experience developing and maintaining data mapping specifications, business rules, transformation logic, and testing criteria.
• Expert knowledge and experience with data warehousing and data marts in a banking environment.
• Experience with every aspect of the SDLC in a banking environment

Required Experience

• 10+ years working in banking, specifically with lending-related data/systems – must include field-level knowledge of various lending systems.
• 10+ years working directly with project teams within a structured project environment developing data warehouse and BI solutions– this experience must include BRD development and documentation, data profiling, data modeling, data mapping, developing test cases and quality criteria, and testing of data warehouse fields and processes.

Required Technical Skills and Experience

• SQL (Oracle, SQL-Server, PostgreSQL, etc.) for data analysis, profiling, and mapping. Must include SELECT queries, joins, aggregations, window functions, etc.
• Solid understanding of database and ETL processing (file and database centric) and tools.
• Expert understanding of various types of data models used within retail banking
• Expert MS Excel skills
• Other Microsoft Office (including Visio)
• Ability to perform gap analyses for both data and processes
• Writing business requirements documents
• Writing/designing business processes
• Developing test plans: defining scenarios, developing test cases, managing/executing user-testing using tools like HP Quality Center
• Front-end and Back-end experience with relevant banking systems (AFS, Shaw, ACLS, Jack Henry, Argo, Fiserve, or ACBS systems)

Education

Bachelor's degree required, degree in business/MIS/CIS preferred