Systems Business Analyst

At BBH, Partnership is more than a form of ownership—it’s our approach to business and relationships.  We know that supporting your professional and personal goals is the best way to help our clients and advance our business. We take that responsibility seriously. With a 200-year legacy and a shared passion for what’s next, this is the right place to build a fulfilling career.

Join us as a Systems Business Analyst 

Brown Brothers Harriman is currently recruiting a Systems Business Analyst to join one of our Information Technology teams. In this role, you will function as a liaison between technical and business stakeholders. You will interpret business needs and translate them into detailed functional requirements and specifications, while actively participating in solution design, development, testing, and production deployments. You will work as part of a highly collaborative team focused on delivering innovative solutions to complex business problems. The successful candidate will help identify, define, analyze, and improve both legacy and emerging systems and software solutions. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in driving the development and adoption of IT solutions that support business transformation and operational excellence.

Some of your key responsibilities include:

• Participate in the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including planning, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance activities.
• Participate in the Product Roadmap definition process.
• Maintain and prioritize items in the Product Backlog. o Analyze business requirements and create functional specifications for application developers, including data modeling, data flow diagramming, screen design, and workflow analysis.
• Provide requirement clarification and support to stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, estimation, and sprint demo sessions as needed.
• Validate that delivered features meet business and functional requirements.
• Foster effective communication between business stakeholders and technical teams.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for assigned business applications and business lines.
• Act as a systems project coordinator for assigned initiatives, partnering with project managers and technical leads to track milestones, ensure SDLC compliance, manage change requests, and support production deployments.
• Collaborate with developers and business stakeholders to define solution requirements, success criteria, and measurable business outcomes. 

Hybrid model 3 days per week in the office /2 days for a parent of a child up to 4 years

What we offer:

• To encourage cultural awareness and philanthropy, BBHers have 1 Culture Celebration Day and 1 Community Service Day in addition to their paid standard vacation allowance
• 24 days of occasional remote work from Poland during a calendar year
• Private medical care
• Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program - offering independent and confidential counselling services for you and your family. You can get support for topics including family, marriage and relationships, finances, and legal issues.
• Professional trainings and qualification support
• Wellbeing Program
• Online Social Fund benefit platform
• Social, sport and integration events
• Onboarding Program for new hires

Desired Qualifications: 

• Strong analytical skills.
• Exceptional structured thinking, analytical reasoning, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and organizational skills.
• Understanding of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• SQL: ability to read, understand, and write SQL queries.
• Knowledge of Agile, Kanban, Waterfall, and Scrum methodologies.
• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Fluent English.
• Exposure to software development, database design, system integrations, APIs, and cloud technologies is preferred. 

We value diverse experiences. We value diverse experiences and transferrable skillsets. If your career hasn’t followed a traditional path, includes alternative experiences, or doesn’t meet every qualification or skill listed in the job description, please do go ahead and apply.

About BBH:

Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) is a premier global financial services firm, known for premium service, specialist expertise, technology solutions and partnership approach to client management. Across Investor Services and Capital Partners, we work with an enviable roster of sophisticated clients who make BBH their first call when they are tackling their hardest challenges. Delivering for our clients and each other energizes us.

We believe that how we do our work is just as important as what we do. We are relentless problem solvers who know our best ideas come from collective debate and development—so we are never possessive about our ideas. Every day we come together as a diverse community of smart and caring people to deliver exceptional service and expert advice—creating success that lasts. No matter where you sit in the organization, everyone is empowered to contribute their ideas. BBHers can pick up the phone and call any colleague, and they are happy to help. Expanding your impact beyond your daily role is part of how we operate as trusted partners to one another. 

We believe stability is a competitive advantage, but being stable means having the knowledge, skill, and discipline to evolve, often—pushing the boundaries of innovation.  As a private partnership, every investment we make is in the relationships, technologies, products and development we believe are in the long-term interests of our clients and our people. Our long-tenured leaders are experts in their areas and are actively involved in the day-to day business, taking the time to provide guidance and mentoring to build the next generation of BBHers. Because we know, our success begins with yours.

Go to BBH.com to learn more about our rewards and benefits, philanthropy, approach to sustainability or how we support you to thrive personally, physically and financially.