Associate Principal Consultant - Business Analyst AgileScrum
Associate Principal Consultant - Business Analyst AgileScrum
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Job Description
As a Business Analyst (Agile/Scrum) you will help define and deliver solutions that provide business outcomes and will serve as a facilitator between the Business Analytics and Insights (BAI) team and Business Stakeholders. This role works with the BAI Agile Team consisting of Business Relationship Managers Scrum Masters Product Owners Software Developers Azure Databricks Architects & Business Stakeholders to evaluate business and technical requirements identify needs and support development of strategies to maximize digital opportunities.
They will create functional and nonfunctional product backlog items and user stories for descriptive analytics predictive insights AI/ML and other digital solutions in the manufacturing industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Agile Practice & Team Role.
- Work in continuous delivery mode analyzing testing and delivering features iteratively.
- Consistently demonstrate Agile processes and principles for effective delivery.
- Consistently demonstrate Lean principles for efficient delivery.
- Requirement Elicitation & User Story Management:
- Work with the Business Relationship Manager Scrum Master and Product Owner on defining the projects detailed scope.
- Responsible for creating refining and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs.
- Provide guidance and facilitates conversations as needed on sizing stories choosing stories for sprints splitting stories and determining technical story details.
- Work with the Product Owner and other BAs with the prioritization of user stories in the product backlog.
- Work with the Product Owner BAs and Quality Assurance Analysts on defining acceptance criteria sufficiently for testing.
- Work with the Product Owner to confirm the delivered solution is in fulfillment of the stated requirements. Work with business stakeholders to test user stories.
- Guide the team to ensure a solid understanding of the ceremonies expectations deliverables dependencies and their role in the Agile development methodology.
- Provide coaching in the discipline for junior resources.
Qualifications :
Must have Skills: Requirements Analysis Requirements Elicitation Food Manufacturing.
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in business administration Information Technology or a related field Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst working on information technology projects.
- Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst in an agile Business Intelligence projectbased environment.
- Strong knowledge of Agile frameworks and Agile tools. Proficient with user stories Scrum Kanban retrospectives team planning and other related Agile techniques.
- Strong analytical problemsolving and criticalthinking skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- Proficiency in requirement gathering techniques process modeling and documentation.
- Experience interacting with crossfunctional groups to support consensus outcome/decision.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and software development lifecycle.
- Knowledge of relevant tools such as Microsoft Visio JIRA Confluence etc.
- Certification in Business Analysis (e.g. CBAP CCBA) is advantageous.
- Experience moderating team dynamics and leading through influence.
- Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques.
- Experience in how to apply different techniques to optimize the teams effectiveness when developing in an agile framework (for example: various Burndown technologies differing retrospective sprint planning handling bugs etc.).
- Experience with removing blockers for teams and acting as a champion for a crossfunctional team or department.
Highly Desirable:
- Understanding and experience within Business Analytics & Insights Technologies such as Microsoft Azure Databricks and Microsoft PowerBI.
- Experienced working with teams in multiple time zones
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Engineering
Key Skills
- Computer Science
- Economics
- JSP
- Access
- Excel
- Testscript
- Jira
- Project Management
- Scrum
- Sharepoint
- Java
- XML
- JSON
- Data Analysis
- XSLT
