Business Systems Analyst (Banking) - Snowflake & Risk Data

About the role

OnTrac is looking for a Business Systems Analyst (Banking) to act as the liaison between a financial-services customer's Risk department and its Enterprise Data Platform in Las Vegas. The role owns the intake of risk-model score requirements into the Snowflake data warehouse, from requirements and gap analysis through UAT, production validation and business sign-off, and also serves as Scrum Master for two data-platform delivery teams. It is a long-term, full-time or contract position, onsite Monday to Friday.

Key responsibilities

• Gather requirements for model scores to be ingested into Snowflake and analyze business requirements with business teams to close gaps
• Manage business intakes, coordinate with tech leads on prioritization, and work with development and testing teams through implementation
• Perform UAT after development, lead post-production validation and obtain business sign-off
• Manage the lifecycle of Jira initiatives through to closure
• Maintain the KPI backlog for platform upgrades and support, and validate platform deployments weekly
• Run Scrum ceremonies (daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning, review and retrospective) for two teams and publish scrum reports to leadership

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree plus 12+ years of IT experience after graduation
• Business systems analysis experience in banking or financial services
• Experience with risk modeling data and data governance
• Agile/Scrum delivery and facilitation of Scrum ceremonies
• Strong communication with business and technical stakeholders
• Must be located in or willing to relocate to the Las Vegas area and authorized to work in the United States

Required skills

• Strong SQL and data analysis skills
• Hands-on experience with Snowflake and data ingestion
• Jira for intake, backlog and initiative management
• UAT planning and execution, including post-production validation and sign-off

Useful qualifications include Hue, Trino, SQL Server Management Studio, MinIO, VS Code, Airflow, a Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM or equivalent), and experience supporting credit, fraud or other risk-model teams. Pay is $75-$85 per hour.