Requirement Engineer - Finance/Business/IT

For our banking client in Zurich, we are looking for a

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEER - TRANSLATOR BETWEEN BUSINESS AND IT

Start date: ASAP

Duration: EOY 2016 + extension possible

Location: Zurich

ROLES OVERVIEW:

- supports business in its duties through IT support and documentation to provide a common understanding between the client who use the application and the IT people who built, test and maintain it now and in the future
- understand business drivers and what needs to be delivered from a business and IT point of view
- obtain understanding of and commitment to requirements
- develop, manage, estimate dimensions and consolidate information on the requirements of the project's customers, products and product components according to the requirements engineering process

KEY DELIVERABLES:

- elicit and elaborate requirements
- model and document requirements understandable for clients and subsequence roles within IT
- ensure that specification of the user's needs is accurate, complete and unambiguous
- maintain traceability between requirements and between requirements and requests
- identify impact of changes on the existing requirements
- provide inputs to a first test strategy for the application
- provide input to the Project Manager for prioritizing requirements
- supports testing phase by giving input, review test strategy and test cases

MANDATORY EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:

- university degree or similar education preferably in information technology or information management
- requirements engineering experiences on IT side within financial institutions of > 6 years
- well experienced in eliciting requirements from business subject matter experts and writing business rules and interface specifications for the developers
- good understanding of financial instruments like Swaps, Forwards, Options, Warrants, Futures, Notes/Certificates, etc.
- solid theoretical understanding and practical experience of use case modelling (UML) in IT projects
- understands software development processes

BENEFICIAL EXPERIENCE (ORDERED BY PRIO):

- IREB Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering or a similar certificate
- well banking-knowhow about tax, namely about US Withholding Tax (FATCA, Qualified Intermediary)
- working-experience within Suisse Banks in the IT departments
- experience in using tools like JIRA, Polarion, Enterprise Architect 9.x
- project management experience

PERSONALITY:

distinctive analytical thinking, well structured, solution-oriented, autonomous, propulsive, proactive, flexible, communicative, insistent, responsibly

LANGUAGES:

very good English and German (w/s)

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.