Federal Reserve Financial Services Senior Business Integration Specialist
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Accounting & Finance, IT
Boston, MA, USA
Company
Federal Reserve Bank of AtlantaFederal Reserve Financial Services (FRFS) delivers a suite of payments services to financial institutions via FedLine® Solutions, Fedwire® Funds and Securities, the National Settlement Service (NSS), FedCash®, FedACH®, Check Services, and the FedNow® Service. FRFS operates as a fully integrated organization with groups dedicated to customer experience, operations, technology, product and customer/industry management, enterprise services, payments system improvement, and one focused on the ongoing growth and development of the FedNow instant payment service. Our strategy defines our future direction, seeking to offer a fully integrated product suite that provides speed, resilience, and choice in meeting the payments needs of FRFS customers across the United States. Through our Enterprise structure, we strive to meet the needs of the marketplace for new products and services with speed and agility, seek to provide a robust and unified customer experience, and work to create career growth opportunities for FRFS staff.The FRFS Enterprise operates with a customer-first mindset, comprised of team members seeking to do the best work of their careers in pursuit of our important central bank mission.
Onsite Work Expectation: The Bank believes in flexibility to balance the demands of work and life while also recognizing the necessity of connecting and collaborating with our colleagues in person. Onsite work is an essential function of this position, and you are required to be onsite according to the schedule set by your management.
The Senior Business Integration Specialist will be responsible for leading and/or performing complex activities that entail interactions within FRFS and/or other business lines that require application and/or operational changes. This includes leading and/or coordinating ecosystem testing activities for the FRFS Accelerate Cloud/Colo Program.
The Senior Business Integration Specialist will also lead and/or participate in FRFS or system workgroups, as well as provide expert SME input to other areas within FRFS.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, coordinate, plan, and execute interactions with other business lines that require changes to supporting applications impacting FRFS applications
Apply deep understanding of cross business operations/processes when participating in complex assignments
Lead and/or perform complex analyses, identifying application and/or operational changes to support the long-term vision of FRFS
Document and validate business requirements, ensuring any interim steps can easily transition to longer-term solutions in the future
Identify and coordinate updates to Guides/Policies/Procedures with other business lines, as applicable
Execute internal communication plans, ensuring that supporting applications are fully engaged with changes needed to support FRFS implementation
Support technology efforts, by providing expert SME input to requirements and ensure overall alignment of FRFS build with Business Partners’ application needs
Work closely with FRFS Technical and Product teams, supporting Business Integration requirements to ensure interfaces with business partners are developed and tested successfully
Coordinate with functional areas and other business lines to identify key risks
Working with Technical, Product, and Program Management teams, as well as other business lines, plan and manage ongoing interface testing throughout the ecosystem from development through production implementation, including testing between FRFS core applications and other business partners’ systems, as well as between various other business partners’ systems
Collaborate and strategize with functional areas and management to identify future product and service needs
Prepare meeting materials, including status updates to senior leadership
Coach, delegate, and review work of less experienced staff as well as responsible for knowledge transfer
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years equivalent experience preferred.
Typically requires at least 5 years of relevant experience.
Excellent communication skills with ability to express ideas in a clear, concise, and compelling manner, as well as ability to tailor communications for different audiences
Experience with leading and participating in System-level workgroups
Ability to work in a demanding environment and handle multiple competing priorities
Detail-oriented and capable self-starter with the ability to explore innovative ways to perform tasks in an efficient and timely manner as an individual and in a team environment
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with demonstrated ability to quickly gather, analyze and synthesize information
Excellent relationship management and collaboration skills, including the ability to influence and build consensus across teams
Strong collaboration, influencing skills, and verbal and written communication skills
Strong organizational and time management skills
Demonstrated experience delivering successful outcomes on projects involving multiple stakeholders with differing/diverging interests
Ability to effectively work remotely and across teams
Other Considerations
May include remote working arrangements and some required travel, which will vary during project phases.
This role may require occasional weekend hours.
Our total rewards program offers benefits that are the best fit for you at every stage of your career:
Comprehensive healthcare options (Medical, Dental, and Vision)
401K match, and a fully funded pension plan
Paid vacation and holidays; flexible work environment
Generously subsidized public transportation
Annual tuition reimbursement
Professional development programs, training and conferences
And more…
This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, performance standards or requirements, efforts, skills or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed when circumstances change (e.g. emergencies, rush jobs, change in workload or technological developments).
The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is an equal opportunity employer.
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