.The Data Science Lead Analyst is a strategic professional who stays abreast of developments within own field and contributes to directional strategy by considering their application in own job and the business. Recognized technical authority for an area within the business. Requires basic commercial awareness. Developed communication and diplomacy skills are required in order to guide, influence and convince others, in particular colleagues in other areas and occasional external customers. Significant impact on the area through complex deliverables. Provides advice and counsel related to the technology or operations of the business.Responsibilities:Conducts strategic data analysis, identifies insights and implications and makes strategic recommendations, develops data displays that clearly communicate complex analysis.Mines and analyzes data from various banking platforms to drive optimization and improve data quality.Deliver analytics initiatives to address business problems with the ability to determine data required, assess time & effort required and establish a project plan.Consults with business clients to identify system functional specifications.Consults with users and clients to solve complex system issues/problems through in-depth evaluation of business processes, systems and industry standards; recommends solutions.Leads system change process from requirements through implementation; provides user and operational support of application to business users.Formulates and defines systems scope and goals for complex projects through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry standards.Impacts the business directly by ensuring the quality of work provided by self and others; impacts own team and closely related work teams.Considers the business implications of the application of technology to the current business environment; identifies and communicates risks and impacts.Drives communication between business leaders and IT; exhibits sound and comprehensive communication and diplomacy skills to exchange complex information.Conduct workflow analysis, business process modeling; develop use cases, testplans, and business rules; assist in user acceptance testing.Collaborate on design and implementation of workflow solutions that provide long term scalability, reliability, and performance, and integration with reporting.Develop in-depth knowledge and proficiency of supported business areas and engage business partners in evaluating opportunities for process integration and refinement.Gather requirements and provide solutions across Business Sectors.Partner with cross functional teams to analyze, deconstruct, and map current state process and identify improvement opportunities including creation of target operation models.Assist in negotiating for resources owned by other areas in order to ensure required work is completed on schedule