Business Analyst

Overview The Surveillance IT team is a department within HSBC's Global Banking & Markets IT function. The team is responsible for the software and hardware underpinning the firms' primary Trade, eComms, Voice and Unauthorised Trading applications. Our clients are internal users from the Regulatory Compliance function, who are responsible for the definition of surveillance techniques and models, the monitoring of alerts, and the management of any subsequent investigations and reports into suspicious activity.

The purpose of this role will be to work in a global agile development team helping deliver the first step towards Surveillance's technology target state. The successful candidate will be responsible for understanding stakeholder needs in relation to the data that is required to either be ingested, or generated, onto the Surveillance platform.

• Understand stakeholder needs of the data sets ingested and generated by the platform as well as application features the users will require
• Own the relationship with specific stakeholders (including other Application product owners) in the context of those data sets
• Work with stakeholders to identify new "Views" of data needed to support user or Product Owner requests
• Explore and document user requirements, ensure that all information required by the sprint team to deliver a User Story is available in a timely fashion

o Produce and maintain schema defining data set requirements

• Own the sprint backlog for area of responsibility, to include data processing activities or application features (Epics, User Stories, Prioritisation etc.)
• Lead testing activities associated with the Apps and capabilities for which they are responsible (to include writing and executing test cases/specifications)

• Prior experience performing a Product Owner role in an agile delivery team
• Good working knowledge of Atlassian toolset (Jira and Confluence)
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Proactive, persistent and organised
• Good attention to detail
• Proven ability to successfully manage multiple stakeholders via remote working practices
• Previous involvement in delivery of analytics/data-centric systems
• Awareness of the capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of a variety of data storage technologies
• Previous experience in defining a variety of types of data models (e.g. relational, aggregate/document, graph/network etc.)
• Working knowledge of variety of data formats (e.g. CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, Parquet, XML)
• Good understanding of test practices/methodologies

o Ability to write test cases

• Experience of operating in at least one of

o A surveillance/security/investigation - focused organisation

o A markets-related function of a Financial Services institution

The following are desirable skills:

• Ability to use one or more query languages (e.g. SQL, Elasticsearch DSL) to interrogate data stores
• Ability to code in high-level language (e.g. Python)

• Competitive salary
• Luxoft Training Center
• Access to e-learning Library
• Individual development plans
• Long-term cooperation with possibility to gain experience in different projects and technologies
• A significant number of professional communities (Agile Community, Tech Community, Business Analysis Community, etc.)

• Group Life Insurance
• Private healthcare insurance – LuxMed. Unlimited access to specialist consultations with Dental Care included
• Medical costs reimbursement for employees (up to certain amount per quarter)
• Travel Insurance
• Benefit Program - Cafeteria and Multisport Card

• Various communities (sport, recreation activities, trips, board games, cultural and educational activities)
• Discounts program for employees – BeLux (banking offer, car leasing offer and cafeteria program discount)
• Convenient locations in a modern offices with game rooms
• Multinational projects for clients all over the world