Description: Senior IT Business Analyst (Financial Services)
The role will suit anyone who lives on the outskirts of Dublin and looking for a career move. My client is based close to the M50. The salary on offer is 60-75k per annum plus benefits.
Overview:
The IT Senior Business Analyst owns the internal client relationship; understands IT requirements that drive analysis and design of technical solutions in compliance with IT strategy, services, technology and products. The IT Business Analyst will participate in the development and management of project plans related to the application development initiatives, from project planning and design through testing, implementation and maintenance. Responsibility for educating project team members and the business community on the impact of the technology proposed (e.g. infrastructure) and for articulating strategy and developing contingency plans. In addition, the IT BA will be responsible for the participation, collection, analysis, documentation and redesign of business needs and requirements.
Job Description:
Business Planning: Consults with business planning sessions with business users to improve business processes.
Cost Benefit Analysis: Develops costs benefit analysis for business solutions.
Business Requirements Development: Develops/evaluates business specifications and understands system/business to redefine business process when necessary. Assists in the development of technical specifications. Participates or leads in the scoping, requirements gathering and solution design phases of assignments/projects.
Project Management: Develops project plans and leads projects for requirements phases, through design and testing, and maintenance phases.
Staffing: Assists in co-ordinating workload and assigning work to Analyst/Designer in addition to maintaining status of total workload. Provides input into resource planning.
Change Management: Facilitates and communicates change management and business processes to address complex business issues in a cost effective manner.
Quality Assurance: Defines and consults on the application of business analysis, testing tool, and project methodologies.
Client Interface: Serves as a liaison between development across divisional organisations for process and business improvements, processes and systems integration. Resolves conflict and removers barriers to ensure successful resolution of issues.
Business Knowledge & Communications: Develops relationships with clients and vendors by being proactive, displaying a thorough understanding of the business, and providing timely and accurate information through written and oral communication or formal presentations.
Coaching & Mentoring: Serves as a mentor and coach for Business Analysts and Designers in the organisation. Provides input into employee evaluations.
Provide a strategic view of system design decisions that may impact either the business or the solution being delivered. Solution Design: Work with the technical architect and team to ensure the solution design meets both the current business requirements, while delivering a sound platform for future requirements.
Has a good understanding of the company information and how it is processed. Work with the Data Controller to ensure data processing and storage is within the Company Data Protection and Security Policy.
Assists in the development of SLAs between the business and IT, ensuring delivered solutions adhere to the Business Continuity and failover plans.
Work with the Project managers to ensure proposed solutions meet business expectations and include/consider the complete end-to-end solution including such areas as reporting etc.
Academic Qualification: IT Degree
Knowledge, Skills, Competencies:
Minimum of 5-7 years experience working in the Financial Services Sector with relevant technical and business work experience.
IT Degree, technical training or equivalent work experience
Knowledge & experience of agile methodologies would be an advantage
Project Planning/Management:
Advanced understanding of project management principles
Experience in multi-departmental, multi-year initiatives
Typically requires 5/7 or more years or relevant technical and business work experience.
Requires experience/indepth knowledge of business operations, requirements processing, business modelling concepts, information systems and software development life cycle knowledge and business process development or redesign.
Relationships:
Ability to successfully work across all levels of the organisation.
Ability to manage vendor relationships.
Ability to manage key account relationships with other business units and through agreed forums and communication methods (bi-weekly reviews, providing status updates).
Ability to handle complex negotiations and to balance priorities across stakeholders.
Please contact Peter@eolas.ie if you are interested in the roles.

Description: My Client has a 6 month Contract requirement for an Enterprise Architect (EA) based in Dublin City Centre.
Job purpose of the Enterprise Architect:
Provide strategic direction, and design principles to the ICT department.Use models and architectural frameworks to identify key relationships and gaps between business objectives, process and ICT systems. Deliver roadmaps that enhance operational efficiency and provide visionary guidance for project solutions.
The Enterprise Architect (EA) will take the company's business strategy and define an IT systems architecture to support that strategy.

Responsibilities of the Enterprise Architect:
o Shape the design architecture based on strategic business and operating models.
o Develop principles, strategies and frameworks.
o Ensure standards and framework comply across the business.
o Develop and maintain strategic and technology roadmaps.
o Develop and maintain a strategic vision for the delivery of ICT based on key business drivers.
o Provide advice and consultancy on strategy to management team.
o Liaise with solutions architects to develop design standards.
Necessary Skills/Education

Educated to degree level in Computer Science (or equivalent). The role requires a highly experienced IT professional with excellent knowledge of the retail industry ideally.

The Enterprise Architect should be familiar with and experienced in the application of one or more architecture frameworks and any associated architecture development methods, including at least one of the following: TOGAF, DoDAF, MODAF

The Enterprise Architect will be responsible for ensuring that the populated architecture framework is appropriate in the context of the business environment.
The Enterprise Architect must be comfortable with leading a team of people within the business, application/systems, data/information and technical architecture disciplines and must be able to explain clearly the benefits of an architectural approach.

He/she must be experienced in presenting and explaining the architectural views to clients at all levels from technical/IT staff to Main Board Director. The Enterprise Architect should also be able to develop portfolios and programmes of work to deliver the enterprise architecture.

The Enterprise Architect will typically have experience in at least one of the 4 contributing architecture disciplines: business analysis, applications/systems engineering, data/information architectures and technical architectures.
To hear more on this challenging and exciting role apply now to Nollaig@eolas.ie for more details.
Excellent Client. Dublin City Centre.



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Description: IT Architect

Overview:

My client is recruiting for an IT Process Architect who will be reporting to the Application & Process Architecture within their Information Management and Technology division.

Job Description:

• Develop & own process architecture reference model/blueprint;
• Ensure business process needs are aligned with Architectural Domains;
• Implement architectural governance, controls, policies and procedures;
• Perform product and vendor selection for process improvement components;
• Provide input into development of the architectural strategy;
• Ensure industry best practice;
• Communicate IT solutions to business, colleagues and suppliers;
• Serve as a process team lead on large projects/programmes;
• Serve as formal or informal mentor to members of the Enterprise Architecture Team;
• Serve as a subject matter expert for specific areas of process architecture

Experience / Qualifications
Essential:
• 5 years within a process driven environment performing process design and system analysis roles across technical domains.
• 1 year experience at Lead Architect level for multiple different large organizations
• Minimum 3 years as Architect/Process Consultant
• Minimum of 2 years managing process change teams
• Detailed process change experience in the following areas: -
Banking/ Insurance/ Regulation/ Information Management
Technical/ Professional experience
• Previous experience defining process driven strategy – eg Six Sigma or other
• Application/Data/Process Design and Development
• Understanding of existing and emerging technologies
• Ability to build and maintain strong on-going business relationships at a strategic level with internal and external customers
• Excellent interpersonal skills and technical presentation skills

Academic Qualification: Computer Science Degree


Remuneration Package:
Very attractive Remuneration Package.

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