Functional Solutions Lead

Lead, Functional Solution Analyst

Experience: Working experience as a business/functional analyst in one or multiple IT areas

Education: Degree in Computer, Science, and Information Technology or any other related degree’s

Certification: If any.

Job Description

• Clarifies and translates business requirement to IT system functional requirement and system interaction and flows.
• Work with business users and ensure compliance with policies and business rules.
• Document the necessary components into functional specifications required by the Business and/or Technical Project Team (Write Functional Specification)
• Co-ordinate with participating IT Teams to clarify Business requirements
• Provide training (train the trainer) and implementation support.
• Perform documentation of system manuals.
• Collaborate with business users and technical delivery teams in developing scalable and flexible IT solution including studying both the business and system impact, create user stories, functional design, test strategy, support delivery till go live and post live support.
• Understand business context of business requirement, assess if there are gaps and work with business to update requirement documents.
• Based on the translated system feature list, analyse the impact to the existing IT systems, determine required changes to existing IT systems and /or new systems required to be built, as well as the necessary functional interaction/integration between the IT systems.
• Develop functional solution design specification that IT Technical team can use and develop the corresponding technical solution design specification. The functional solution design specification must incorporate features and flows that fulfil the bank's compliance, security, data governance policy and standards established in the bank.
• Participate in projects meetings to provide clarity and guidance to the technical delivery team on the functional solution design specification. Update the functional solution design specification as and when necessary.

Functional Skills

1. Oral and written communication skills.
2. Interpersonal and consultative skills.
3. Facilitation skills.
4. Analytical thinking and problem solving.
5. Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy.
6. Organizational skills.
7. Knowledge of business structure.
8. Stakeholder analysis.
9. Experience in Digital banking domain is a must (Internet Banking/ Mobile Banking)
10. Ability to review BRD and develop corresponding FSD
11. Added Advantage - Exposure to 3rd party integration dependencies such as Payment Switch, Stock exchange, Central bank, etc.

Technical Skills

• Experience in hands on functional design, prototyping, testing and other implementation activities.
• Familiar with existing IT system functionalities and functional flows.
• At least 1 web programming (Java, Javascript, PHP, Go, etc.) or 1 scripting language (bash, ksh, python, perl, etc., Unix commands)
• MS Excel or MS Project for planning and reporting
• HP Quality Center (or similar defect tracking tool) or any other tools – JIRA, etc;
• Leadership capabilities