Senior Business Systems Analyst

Job summary

The role involves bridging business needs and IT solutions by validating business rules, designing test strategies, and documenting data flows. You will act as a liaison between business units, software engineers, and quality analysts to identify inefficiencies and implement innovative technology solutions.

Job details

Job Description A technical professional who bridges business needs and IT solutions. They analyze organizational systems, create user stories, identify inefficiencies, and recommend technology solutions to improve business processes. This role is ideal for technical problem-solvers who excel at implementing innovative solutions while maintaining compliance and quality. Proficiency in banking systems, data flows, and associated risks is a strong asset. Your core responsibilities revolve around three key pillars: business rule validation and alignment, where you ensure technical solutions meet organizational goals; test strategy and execution, designing robust frameworks for system reliability and process optimization, leveraging technology to streamline workflows. You will act as a liaison between business units, software engineers, and quality analysts. What will you do? Translate and validate complex business rules with stakeholders, ensuring mutual agreement on definitions, logic, and expected outcomes. Curate feature-specific test data sets that align with distinct business logic, workflows, and use cases to enable comprehensive functional and regression testing across all system modules. Design and generate synthetic, anonymized, or masked test data to validate system functionality, reports, and business rules, ensuring test data covers edge cases, compliance scenarios, and performance requirements. Gain understanding of upstream applications and the data provided, interfacing with other app teams and architects as needed to document dataflows. Implement data masking techniques to protect sensitive information in non-production environments. Design and evaluate system solutions that meet business objectives, including assessing existing systems and recommending improvements or replacements, while creating system diagrams and technical specifications to guide implementation. Identify inefficiencies in existing systems (e.g., legacy core banking platforms) and recommend improvements. Value Stream Analysis: Identifying bottlenecks and opportunities for automation or data-driven improvements. In this role, you will communicate and interact frequently with RBC partners and/or employees located across Canada and/or worldwide. What do you need to succeed? Must-have: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Data Science or a related field with 5+ years as a Business Systems Analyst, preferably in financial services. API & Integration Knowledge : Familiarity with REST/SOAP APIs to facilitate data exchange between systems (e.g., integrating client data). SQL: Advanced proficiency to extract, transform, and analyze data from relational databases (e.g., Oracle, SQL Server). DB2, legacy systems and big data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Hadoop) are big assets. Test Data Management: Skills in generating synthetic data, data masking, or subset extraction to support testing (e.g., using tools or custom scripts). Proficiency in data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Lucid chart and Visio). Collaboration platforms like Jira, Confluence and Git version control system. What’s in it for you? We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual. A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities Flexible work/life balance options Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team Ability to make a difference and lasting impact #LI-post Job Skills Agile Methodology, Business Data Analysis, Business Process Modeling, Commercial Acumen, Communication, Critical Thinking, Decision Making, Group Problem Solving, Interpersonal Relationship Management, Requirements Analysis Additional Job Details Address: 1 PLACE VILLE MARIE:MONTRÉAL City: Montréal Country: Canada Work hours/week: 37.5 Employment Type: Full time Platform: TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS Job Type: Regular Pay Type: Salaried Posted Date: 2026-06-16 Application Deadline: 2026-10-23 Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above Our Employment Opportunities At RBC, we are guided by living shared values of Client First, Integrity, Collaboration, Respect and Excellence and winning together as One RBC. We believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all. Join our Talent Community Stay in-the-know about great career opportunities at RBC. Sign up and get customized info on our latest jobs, career tips and Recruitment events that matter to you. Expand your limits and create a new future together at RBC. Find out how we use our passion and drive to enhance the well-being of our clients and communities at jobs.rbc.com. RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

What you’ll do

The role involves bridging business needs and IT solutions by validating business rules, designing test strategies, and documenting data flows. You will act as a liaison between business units, software engineers, and quality analysts to identify inefficiencies and implement innovative technology solutions.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or a related field with at least 5 years of experience as a business systems analyst. Strong proficiency in SQL, API integration, and test data management within the financial services sector is required.

Benefits

• Bonuses
• Flexible benefits
• Competitive compensation
• Commissions
• Stock options
• Flexible work/life balance

Listed skills

• Data visualization · Preferred
• Process Optimization · Preferred
• SQL · Preferred
• Jira · Preferred
• Git · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Business Systems Analysis
• SQL
• API Integration
• Test Data Management
• Data Visualization
• Jira
• Confluence
• Git
• Banking Systems
• Data Flows
• Business Rule Validation
• Value Stream Analysis
• Requirement Analysis
• Agile Methodology
• Process Optimization
• Technical Specification
• Core Banking
• Custom Scripting
• Atlassian Confluence
• Workplace Inclusivity
• Relationship Management
• Workflow Management
• Business Objectives
• Git (Version Control System)
• Snowflake (Data Warehouse)
• Technology Solutions
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Data Analysis
• Business Logic
• JIRA
• Automation
• Big Data
• Business Process
• Business Process Modeling
• Decision Making
• Version Control
• Collaborative Software
• Communication
• Computer Science
• Critical Thinking
• Data Exchange
• Data Masking
• IBM DB2
• Relational Databases
• Financial Services
• Apache Hadoop
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Microsoft Visio
• Operations

Job areas

• Technology
• Finance & Accounting
• Data & Analytics
• Software
• Consulting
• Business Systems Analyst
• Business Analyst (General)
• Management and Organization Analysts
• Management Analysts

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