VP, Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst

The Senior Lead Business Systems Analyst approves that designed system solutions are appropriate for business needs and consistent with the overall design of the organization's information systems architecture. Working closely with senior leadership, this job manages large projects, processes and establishes operational plans.

Key Responsibilities and Duties

• Liaise closely with all Middle & Back Office operations and technology application teams to generate business and Eagle application functional requirement documents and design specifications for both BAU and strategic enterprise level projects
• Conduct workshops with technical architects and infrastructure teams to manage solution design delivery and ensure that the product delivery meets the complete business requirements
• Act as a SME and business point of escalation for key production issues
• Document current state functional workflows across the business areas defined in the summary and design end to end strategic workflows meeting key business and operational needs
• Lead the preparation and coordination of integration and user acceptance testing across multiple applications and business stakeholders, ensuring issues are resolved in a pragmatic and timely manner
• Prepare and provide ongoing project communications, reporting status, risks, and issues to the Steering Committees, PMO, and IT leadership
• Manage IT and Operations Stakeholder’s expectations in support of multiyear roadmap projects goals and deliverables
• Assist in creating and managing project plans using Project Management Tools to manage projects related to the functional areas described in the summary section

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Experience Required

Work Experience

• 5+ Years Required; 7+ Years Preferred

Physical Requirements

• Physical Requirements: Sedentary Work

Career Level

9IC

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in the financial services industry leading business analysis for complex, strategically relevant initiatives.
• Ability to document current-state and target-state business functional workflows using tools such as Microsoft Visio and PowerPoint.
• Experience in capturing, clarifying, and documenting business and technical requirements from a range of stakeholders.
• Experience with translating complex business goals into actionable requirements for technical teams, while effectively communicating technical constraints to business leaders.
• Experience proposing strategic improvements, evaluating software tools, and designing new operational workflows, with a strong focus on automation and efficiency
• Experience with Job scheduling tools (like Autosys), File transfer systems (like Sterling Integrator), and ETL tools such as IBM DataStage.
• Experience with production monitoring applications such as Splunk, Dynatrace, and CloudWatch.
• Hands-on experience with change management, release management, and incident management processes.
• Strong work experience with database technologies like Oracle, SQL Server and MongoDB.
• Experience with Cloud Technologies (AWS, S3, RDS, Glue, VPC, Snowflake Starburst) and supporting applications hosted on cloud.
• Ability to write complex SQL queries to extract and analyze data from large datasets within a Data Mart.
• Experience with messaging services such as IBM MQ and/or Kafka.

Preferred Skills

• Experience working with data lake and data lakehouse architectures.
• Experience to AI tools for production support and enhancement initiatives.
• Solid understanding of business concepts related to Corporate Actions, Trade Processing, Portfolio Accounting, Performance, Reference Data, FactSet, Fund Launch, Tableau Reports, Entity Stream, Derivatives workflows, and Collateral Management.

Anticipated Posting End Date:

Actual base salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business sector, and geographic location. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual discretionary incentive programs, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans).

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Company Overview

Nuveen is a global investment leader, managing public and private assets for clients around the world and on behalf of TIAA, our parent company and one of the world’s largest institutional investors. We invest in the growth of businesses, real estate, infrastructure and natural capital, providing clients with the reliability, access and foresight unique to our heritage. Our prevailing perspective on the future drives our ambition to innovate and adapt our business to the changing needs of investors - all to pursue lasting performance for our clients, our communities and our global economy. Visit www.nuveen.com to learn more about us.

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