Skip to main content

This job has expired

Senior Business Analyst/DevOps Agile

Employer
Request Technology - Craig Johnson
Location
Houston
Salary
120000.00 - 135000.00 USD Annual + Bonus
Closing date
18 Feb 2023

View more

Sector
Telecoms / Utilities
Responsibilities
Information Technology
Position/Level
Professional / Specialist
Contract Type
Permanent
Language
English

*We are unable to sponsor for this permanent Full time role*

*Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Global Firm is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst with DevOps and Agile experience. Candidate will identify and document functional and technical requirements for proprietary web based custom-built software. The position requires driving application product change from idea to delivery including validating resulting change meets internal and external new and existing business requirements.

Candidate will be working closely with mid to senior level management, application development teams, and product designer, to elicit, document, and translate specifications on applications.

Responsibilities:

  • Acts as relationship manager in the process of seeking out, identifying, and resolving business needs and/or business problems through process and/or technical recommendations and/or technical solutions across practice groups, units as assigned.
  • Research, understand, and document business processes.
  • Capture requirements from key business contacts and ensure documented requirements satisfy business needs (aligning use cases and stories/features to business processes) while addressing all downstream impacts.
  • Form and maintain business requirements and functional specification documentation.
  • Evaluate how new requirements fit into an existing product and ensure consistency throughout the product
  • Translate requirements into test conditions and expected results for product, performance and user acceptance testing. Additionally, perform QA reviews prior to client delivery.
  • Be a part of the change management process and effectively communicate required changes to development teams.
  • Deliver project requirements and service levels in a deadline driven environment.
  • Demonstrate analytical and organizational skills by analysing and documenting complex information structures involving multiple layers of data and workflows.
  • Work independently and self-manage tasks and time to balance and adapt to changing priorities.
  • Adapt communication language and style to varied audiences making use of Microsoft PowerPoint, Visio, and other Firm tools.
  • Adhere to Firm and department policies, procedures, approved artifacts, methodologies, and delivery approaches to ensure that project efforts are focused on the proper solution and level of functionality needed to meet the objectives of Firmwide, practice group, and functional department customers, without supervision.
  • Evaluate test results, effectively identify and track issues using Firm-approved tools and processes working with respective team to escalate for resolution.
  • Escalate issues to management, as appropriate, when client expectations and functionality do not match and cannot be reconciled without additional time, cost or resources.

Qualifications:

  • 5+ years experience in software product delivery disciplines and activities (ie, product management, business analysis, testing, and project management activities); including delivery adhering to Agile methodologies and the SDLC.
  • Bachelors degree in business (analytics or information science) or equivalent experience.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong negotiation skills.
  • Technical aptitude and interest.
  • Outstanding customer service orientation and work ethic.
  • Familiarity with a DevOps tool (such as Jira or Azure DevOps).

Preferred Skils:

  • Legal or private fund formation knowledge and understanding.
  • Experience in Change or Release Management.
  • Experience in web application development.

Technologies/Software

  • Microsoft Office Suite
  • Visio
  • Microsoft Azure DevOps/VSTS/TFS
  • JIRA
  • Test Manager
  • Figma
  • Knowledgeable and experienced with content management tools, HTML and XML.

Get job alerts

Create a job alert and receive personalised job recommendations straight to your inbox.

Create alert