Business Analyst at EPITEC (Dallas, TX)

POSITION:

Business Analyst

JOB TYPE:

Contract, W-2

LOCATION:

Dallas, Texas

JOB SUMMARY FOR BUSINESS ANALYST:

• The Business Analyst supports the product team, acting as liaison between business and development teams. This position is to gather and validate business requirements for our Full Truck Load (FTL) line of business and start designing process flows that will be built as part of our NextGen platform. They ensure that business and user requirements are appropriately captured and incorporated into the system, confirming there are no gaps between business requirements and what is being delivered by development teams. The position will be accountable for all requirements to build functional software. The position includes translating requirements/goals into technical objectives. The role ensures business requirements are fully represented through the SAFe development process by creating epics, stories, use cases, and technical specifications. The role is cross-functional, and throughout development, the Business Analyst interfaces with customers and end users and demonstrates products to ensure business requirements are fulfilled and usability is confirmed. In addition, the Business Analyst will drive the SAFe development processes across teams, ensuring there is high collaboration and feedback with business stakeholders.

RESPONSIBILITIES FOR BUSINESS ANALYST:

• Assess, update, and maintain the business vision of product from beginning to end, from planning through execution and beyond

• Learn and understand business operations, sales processes, integration points, and end-to-end flow of a business transaction

• Learn and understand end-to-end use of systems and products from an end user perspective

• Collaborate with stakeholders during the visioning and concept development of a product

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, business owners and end customers to understand and document business requirements, use cases and acceptance criteria

• Create user stories and detailed technical scenarios including acceptance criteria that support software development requests

• Seek to understand what system is required to do, and what it should not do

• Establish and lead regular sessions and product demonstrations with business leaders and end customers to ensure alignment and appropriate interpretation of requirements; update requirements documents based on outcomes of product demonstrations

• Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product and business strategy

• Develop and maintain an appropriately prioritized backlog of user stories for implementation

• Work with project managers, architects, developers, and technical leads to determine scope and priorities for product development cycles and to ensure there is clear understanding of product vision

• Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the development teams

• Inspire and motivate the development teams to deliver innovative and exciting solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency

• Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product

• Define scope of initial product release, ensuring definition of Most Viable Product (MVP) is clearly documented and aligned

• Assess impact of requirements changes, creating a balanced approach (tradeoff between value vs. time) to decision making

• Drive feature and story grooming to identify high value items and prioritize them in the backlog accordingly within team sprint planning session

• Understand Architecture standards and technology solutions being utilized, working closely with Architects to align technical specifications to those standards

• Perform requirements validation testing of development deliverables to ensure that solutions address business needs and meet acceptance criteria outlined

• Maintain documentation of user stories and technical specifications within development tool

• Assist with UX design and discovery planning to prioritize MVP UX features

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE FOR BUSINESS ANALYST:

• Bachelors Degree

• 5+ years of IT experience, at least 3 in product management or product development for consumer web application

• Experience working as part of a team defining a completely new software product

• 3+ years Product Owner or Business Analyst experience in highly collaborative business-facing role

• Experience with Agile development methodology and development toolsets from Atlassian suite (JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence, etc.)

• Experience working with applications developed with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, Angular, Oracle, etc.

• Experience creating process flows as UML diagrams or other similar methodologies

• Experience working with cloud native applications and architecture

• Experience with release management processes

• Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills

• Excellent attention to detail

• Experience in the logistics/transportation industry or adjacent industries

BENEFITS

• Medical, Dental, Vacation, Holiday tailored to meet your needs. 401K/Match, $15,000 Life Insurance, Award-Winning Employee Care Program. Established and highly regarded reputation with Green Card and H1 processing.

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