Technical Business Analyst Lead

You'll act as a leader for your team(s) by facilitating clear communication and direction between business end-users and development teams to ensure we are delivering the right solutions at the right time.

As a member of our team, you'll play a crucial role in identifying, improving, and developing technology solutions that drive our strategic goals. This individual will work with the business teams to identify requirements, prioritize the book of work, and work with technology teams to define technical solutions and ensure agile processes and practices are followed. The Technical Business Analyst drives Agile frameworks that result in quality product delivery and continuous improvement. They embrace agility as a practice and are responsible for removing impediments that hinder the team from reaching their goals with a flexible approach that enables the team to rapidly respond to changes.

It will be beneficial to have strong technical experience in software engineering as well as strong interest Cloud Applications. Our teams are responsible for building Cloud Web Applications for Finance & Business Management users.

The candidate must exhibit a thorough understanding of user requirements, data platforms, distributed processing environments and process automation that is necessary for the data flow analysis for end to end solutions. Working at the intersection of business and technology, you'll sharpen your understanding of business processes and finance, data analysis, while continuing to develop your leadership, management, and communication skills.  The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills, hands-on technical & enterprise data systems knowledge, project management and communication skills.

Job Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst for the given scrum team, you will also be responsible for the following:

• Creates an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts
• Champions continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach teams to conduct continuous improvement events
• Seeks opportunities for improvement to the overall effectiveness of teams and the organization
• May need to write API specifications using Swagger

Working with Product Team:

• Proficiency in business applications, data usage and management
• Ability to liaison between lines of business and the development team, while working with a wide range of stakeholders and collaborating with your team
• Author business requirements and other supporting materials to detail business need
• Partner with Scrum Teams to translate user needs into accurate and complete business user stories, document process flows (Visio, PowerPoint)
• Facilitate requirement sessions with Product Owners, Architects, current and future users of toolset
• Author training documentation, maintain and manage Product information sites (Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, SharePoint)

Working with Scrum Team:

• Create Epics, User Stories and build sample test cases using the scope provided by Product owners
• Triage and prioritize testing, post implementation and production defects in downstream applications
• Support technology release events, prior/during/post deployment, Participate in Production Support validation
• Ability to Demonstrate tools (and associated enhancements) to user community and prospective stakeholders; identify opportunities to expand product adoption
• Contribute to the definition and development of multi-year product roadmap
• Support the definition and generation of project metrics and reporting across product backlog of user stories
• Co-ordinate with downstream applications for new enhancements (demo, test cases)

As a Data Analyst for given roadmap:

• Good understanding of Excel, SQL Server (SSIS, SSAS) is required for performing job duties
• Knowledge of data visualization software like Tableau, Qlik
• Proven working experience in data analysis

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor's (BS/BA) degree or equivalent experience
• 8 years of Experience in Web Applications Development
• Experience in Finance Applications is a plus
• Knowledge of XMLs, JSON, Alteryx and other BI tools is a plus
• User Experience (UX) modeling knowledge is a plus
• Hands on with SQL query for data analysis and data profiling exercises is required
• Knowledge of JIRA, Testing Tools and CI/CD is a plus
• Strong mathematical skills to help collect, measure, organize and analyze data 
• Technical proficiency regarding database design development, data models, techniques for data mining, and segmentation.
• Experience in Data Visualization tools like Tableau, Qlikview, Qliksense is a plus