Options Clearing Corporation

Associate Principal, Business Analysis

Options Clearing Corporation$118K — $126K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Master's degree in computer science, business analytics, or related field
  • 3+ years experience as a business analyst or related role
  • Proficient in creating BRDs, entity relationship diagrams, and high-level logical diagrams
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Draw.io under SAFe principles
  • Strong SQL, Tableau, R Studio, and SAS expertise for data analysis and validation

Responsibilities

  • Discover and analyze information to solve business and technology problems
  • Act as a strategic partner for business and technology teams
  • Conduct requirements analysis and define stakeholder business needs
  • Create business requirement documents and traceability matrices
  • Engage in agile practices like sprint planning and backlog grooming
  • Document domain objects for Risk management products
  • Utilize various tools for analytics and reporting on operational improvements

Benefits

  • Up to 40% telecommuting allowed
  • Standard benefits package offered
  • Participation in Employee Referral Program
  • Support for continuous improvement initiatives
  • Opportunity to work within a highly integrated financial technology platform
Full Job Description
Duties:

Responsible for discovering, synthesizing, and analyzing information from a variety of internal and external sources, including tools, processes, documentation, and stakeholders to solve complex business and technology problems through logical, well-structured solution that deliver key value across the enterprise. Act as a strategic partner to both business and technology teams, communicating requirements and findings to all levels of organization. Identify scope gaps and missing requirements by acquiring an in-depth understanding of current state and future state across highly integrated financial technology platform. Identify product team dependencies and plan for resolution. Work cross functionally to analyze and define key stakeholder business needs. Perform requirements analysis, story decomposition, system integration analysis, and data flow design. Create business requirement documents (BRDs), entity relationship diagrams, high-level logical diagrams, and NFR indexing using Jira, Confluence, and Draw.io to apply Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles to coordinate requirements and delivery across multiple product teams, facilitate sprint planning, refine backlogs, and ensure traceability from requirements through implementation across highly integrated technology platforms. Document domain objects for Risk management products, ensuring domain objects are well-defined, organized and traceable; a critical dependency for all downstream risk systems. Regularly engage in agile activities including sprint planning and backlog grooming. Apply Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles to coordinate requirements and delivery across multiple product teams simultaneously, managing competing priorities without disrupting program milestones. Act as an advisor to the Product owner regarding next steps and approvals. Build high quality user stories and acceptance criteria; work with scrum team to refine user stories and provide requirement and design support to scrum team. Support development of user interface requirements and design by collaborating with UI/UX tools and teams. Support or develop test plans and test cases; participate in test results verification. Assist in building cross-team collaboration and define acceptance criteria for integrated components. Adhere to analysis best practices for epics and user stories. Assist in developing and maintaining policies, standards, guidelines and documentation to ensure that a consistent framework is applied across the enterprise. Apply Six Sigma principles through systematic identification and escalation of process gaps, structured root-cause analysis when requirements issues arise, and continuous improvement of documentation and traceability practices within Jira and Confluence. Utilize SQL, Tableau, R Studio, and SAS to query, clean, and validate structured datasets across enterprise applications, verify data integrity during system enhancements, perform statistical modelling including decision trees, logistic regression, principal component analysis, and produce actionable visualization reports and dashboards. Analyze business processes and system integrations using Postman, Draw.io/Visio, Automation Anywhere and OSI PI to document Software Design Documents (SDDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), system flowcharts, and automation workflows; verify API data flows between integrated applications, identify process inefficiencies, and monitor realtime process trends to drive operational improvements across enterprise environments. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted. OCC offers a standard benefits package.*This position qualifies for The Options Clearing Corporation's Employee Referral Program.*

Education & Experience Required:

Master's degree in computer science, business analytics, or related and three (3) years of experience as a business analyst, business systems analysis associate, or related

Special Skills Required:

Must have work experience with each of the following: 1) create business requirement documents (BRDs), entity relationship diagrams, high-level logical diagrams, and NFR indexing using Jira, Confluence, and Draw.io to apply Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles to coordinate requirements and delivery across multiple product teams, facilitate sprint planning, refine backlogs, and ensure traceability from requirements through implementation across highly integrated technology platforms; 2) utilize SQL, Tableau, R Studio, and SAS to query, clean, and validate structured datasets across enterprise applications, verify data integrity during system enhancements, perform statistical modelling including decision trees, logistic regression, principal component analysis, and produce actionable visualization reports and dashboards; and 3) analyze business processes and system integrations using Postman, Draw.io/Visio, Automation Anywhere and OSI PI to document Software Design Documents (SDDs), Interface Control Documents (ICDs), system flowcharts, and automation workflows; verify API data flows between integrated applications, identify process inefficiencies, and monitor real-time process trends to drive operational improvements across enterprise environments. Up to 40% telecommuting permitted.

Salary

$118,664-$126,400

Apply:

OCC offers a standard benefits package. See a full list of benefits here: https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together. Apply online at www.theocc.com. No calls.

About Options Clearing Corporation

The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is a clearinghouse for equity options and futures options. It was founded in 1973 and is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The company provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 16 exchanges and trading platforms for options, financial futures, security futures, and securities lending transactions. OCC is owned by its member firms, which include most of the major options trading firms in the United States. The company's mission is to ensure that the markets it serves are stable, transparent, and fair, and to protect investors and the public interest.
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