Overview:

Job Purpose

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to be part of the technology organization based in our Atlanta office. The Lead Business Analyst will collaborate with ICE Data Product, Engineering, Quantitative, Operations and QA teams to perform analysis for development of products to achieve key growth objectives. The Lead Business Analyst analyzes users' business needs to develop effective and creative solutions within time constraints using but not limited to SQL, Visio and Programming technologies. Further, the Lead Business Analyst will manage all phases of the project life cycle including developing requirements and collaborating with the engineering teams to produce technical design specifications, test plans and product release artifacts.

Responsibilities

Prior experience in business analysis and work as a liaison between Business and Technology teams as part of the SDLC process

Elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for business processes, content and functionality from users

Suggest business workflow and recommend improvements and efficiencies to new and existing products and features

Serve as subject matter expert for development on reference data and pricing for different asset classes such as Fixed Income, Equity, Exchange Traded Derivatives and Funds

Assist the production support development group with client questions or issues across several products

Formulate testing strategies and assist users and developers in testing of key deliverables

Train and mentor other business analyst teammates

Review technical specs of business analysts on the team

Knowledge and Experience

Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Finance, Business Administration (M.B.A) or a related discipline preferred; or 5 or more years of applied experience as a Business Analyst in a Software Engineering/Application Development group

Experience in maintaining data, defining operational processes and partnering across product, operations and development groups

Experience working within an integrated technology environment – using relational databases, endpoints/APIs and UIs to read and analyze data

Experience with documenting business and system requirements including documentation of comprehensive use-cases and working within iterative software development environments

Experience with Front, Middle or Back-Office workflows and products in the Capital Markets is a plus

Expert using MS products including Visio, Excel, Word and PowerPoint

Strong SQL skills; knowledge of a programming language such as C++, Java or Python is a plus.

Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities

General technical background required (understanding of principals and key practices across the SDLC)

Schedule

This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week. 

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or ancestry, age, disability or veteran status, or other protected status.