Lead Development Business Analyst #JREQ020368 | Thomson Reuters | Exeter, GB

Lead Development Business Analyst #JREQ020368 | Thomson Reuters | Exeter, GB


Lead Development Business Analyst Job
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Date: Jun 26, 2014

Location: Exeter, GB
Title:Lead Development Business Analyst
ID:JREQ020368

Description

We are the leading source of intelligent information for the world's businesses and professionals, providing customers with competitive advantage. Intelligent information is a unique synthesis of human intelligence, industry expertise and innovative technology that provides decision-makers with the knowledge to act, enabling them to make better decisions faster. We deliver this must-have insight to the financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual property and science and media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news organization. Position Overview Reporting to a Regional Team Leader of Business Analysis, the job role is for a member in a team of Business Analysts responsible for specifying, managing and delivering all data feed related requirements for several Thomson Reuters systems and businesses.

These requirements range from externally-driven mandatory to business-driven discretionary, encompassing aspects which cover data, technical, and service. The role will focus not only on authoring the detailed requirements for data feeds, but also assists with implementation of those requirements, working with a multi-functional team to ensure their thorough documentation, understanding and delivery.

The responsibilities for the Development Business Analyst include, but are not limited to:

- Acts as a liaison between various local technology teams, support teams, and business units to analyze, document, review, and secure agreement on business requirements for specific Exchange and Contributed data feeds.
- Acquires and analyzes technical data feed specifications, and authors a variety of requirements documents which detail how a particular data feed will be processed by Thomson Reuters systems. Requirements documentation will be a sufficient level of detail so as to ensure clarity for both Technologists and the Business.
- Participating in project planning sessions with team members to analyze development requirements based on business unit or client requests.
- Development and execution of various test plans, specifically focused on data quality and data functionality.
- Prepare status updates for projects and consolidation of periodical reports
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with market data sources ensuring that product related changes are communicated and understood within the organization. Specific focus is placed around supplier notification of required changes to ensure Thomson Reuters systems are fit to purpose “Day 1.”
- Provide Service Support and Maintenance of existing Exchange and Contributed data feeds.

Qualifications

Education:
- Bachelors Degree in any discipline, although Computer Science, Mathematics, or MIS is preferred or significant experience in the collection, normalisation and distribution of real-time data feeds. Required Skills:
- Strong experience within a financial market data related environment
- Strong experience working with environments that communicate system to system, with limited end-user displays available.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Previous Technical Writing experience is preferred.
- Fair knowledge and understanding of technology concepts, including the ability to acclimate quickly to unfamiliar environments.Desired Skills:
- Emphasis on infrastructure applications and networking a plus

At Thomson Reuters, we believe what we do matters. We are passionate about our work, inspired by the impact it has on our business and our customers. As a team, we believe in winning as one - collaborating to reach shared goals, and developing through challenging and meaningful experiences. With over 60,000 employees in more than 100 countries, we work flexibly across boundaries and realize innovations that help shape industries around the world. Making this happen is a dynamic, evolving process, and we count on each employee to be a catalyst in driving our performance - and their own.

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under country or local law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

Intrigued by a challenge as large and fascinating as the world itself? Come join us.

To learn more about what we offer, please visit careers.thomsonreuters.com.

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Job: Technology Development Family Group
Primary Location: Exeter, GB
Other Locations: London,London,United Kingdom
Organization: F&R UPG Feeds
Schedule: Full-time
Education Level: None
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
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