Associate Principal, Business Analysis

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. EOE. About Us The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) is the world's largest equity derivatives clearing organization. Founded in 1973, OCC is dedicated to promoting stability and market integrity by delivering clearing and settlement services for options, futures and securities lending transactions. As a Systemically Important Financial Market Utility (SIFMU), OCC operates under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. OCC has more than 100 clearing members and provides central counterparty (CCP) clearing and settlement services to 19 exchanges and trading platforms. More information about OCC is available at www.theocc.com. Benefits A highly collaborative and supportive environment developed to encourage work-life balance and employee wellness. Some of these components include: A hybrid work environment, up to 2 days per week of remote work Tuition Reimbursement to support your continued education Student Loan Repayment Assistance Technology Stipend allowing you to use the device of your choice to connect to our network while working remotely Generous PTO and Parental leave 401k Employer Match Competitive health benefits including medical, dental and vision Visit https://www.theocc.com/careers/thriving-together for more information. Compensation The salary range listed for any given position is exclusive of fringe benefits and potential bonuses. If hired at OCC, your final base salary compensation will be determined by factors such as skills, experience and/or education. In addition, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as part of any final offer. We typically do not hire at the maximum of the range in order to allow for future and continued salary growth. We also offer a substantial benefits package as noted on www.theocc.com/careers All employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus. Discretionary bonuses are based on various factors, including, but not limited to, company and individual performance and are not guaranteed. Step 1 When you find a position you're interested in, click the 'Apply' button. Please complete the application and attach your resume. Step 2 You will receive an email notification to confirm that we've received your application. Step 3 If you are called in for an interview, a representative from OCC will contact you to set up a date, time, and location. For more information about OCC , please click here . OCC is an Equal Opportunity Employer