Lead Business Analyst

Position Title: Business Systems Analyst Lead Position Location: Pittsburgh, PA, Cleveland, OH, Dallas, TX and Denver, CO Ability to work remote: Must be willing to come in 5 days onsite; possible flexibility to be discussed in future. Acceptable time zone(s): EST, some flexibility can be discussed if located in TX Days of the week: M-F 40 hours Working Hours: M-F 8-5 EST Intended length of Assignment: 12/31/2026 Potential for Contract Extension: Yes Contract to Hire W2 Direct Banking Client Function of the Group/Initiatives: • Tech team that supports the bank regulatory functions around financial crime. Primarily anti-money laundering, transaction screening, all suspicious activity screening and sanction screening. All of those kind of typical AML and sanctions functions and the related data pipelines. Industry background: Commercial/ Retail Payments industry experience required Team Dynamic: Crew of 8-12 people collocated within hubs, Roles/Responsibilities: • Looking to replace a very strong AML Modeling Analyst/ Software engineer + Scrum Master. • Looking for someone with strong functional knowledge in the BSA space – AML Sanctions, fraud, other fin crime related aspects • From a technical perspective, this is heavy on data analysis. Must have the ability to do advanced SQL query against different databases. The data shows up in different source systems. We will have data in Hadoop, Oracle, Mongo DB, Elastic Search • Create in a views report that feeds from all these sources listed above. • All of our codes are predominately Java, Angular in JavaScript so we have front ends and react in Angular data back end. • Data and model pipelines are written in in PySpark – The lead will have to be able to deal with changes or requirements against all these aspects. • Looking at Behavioral models and screening models and filters • Case management- Once a suspicious transaction is found, it needs to flow through case management where you have operations and then people routing it for different kinds of investigations • Managing Agile Work; may sometimes wear the scrum master hat to manager crews as a lead. Required: Subject matter expertise in areas such as AML, Sanctions Screening, Fraud and other FinCrime domains • Key tech knowledge: required: Hadoop/ oracle/ ElasticSearch/ MongoDB Tech languages: Java/ SQL/ Python/ PySpark Financial Applications: Actimize/ Oracle FCCM/ FircoSoft/ LexisNexis suite of tools • Extensive experience on Agile/ SaFE teams leveraging Jira suite of tools • Very hands on with Advanced SQL/ python scripting MUST HAVE SKILLS (IN PRIORITY ORDER): • Subject matter expertise in areas such as AML, Sanctions Screening, Fraud and other FinCrime domains Hadoop Oracle ElasticSearch Mongo DB Actimize Java SQL • Very hands on with Advanced SQL / python scripting Python/ PySpark • Very hands on with Advanced SQL / python scripting Extensive experience on Agile/ SaFE teams leveraging Jira suite of tools FLEX SKILLS: • FircoSoft (priority) • LexisNexis (priority) • Oracle FCCM (2nd priority) Soft Skills: • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Education: Engineering background required either computer science or systems engineering. Certifications (huge plus): ACAMS/ Cloud- AWS/ Azure Interview Process: • 1st round – Technical round; panel 1 hour • 2 rounds – Situational / Behavioral – 1-2 people 30 – 1 hour