What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lead Business System Analyst position at VDart Inc?
Job Description:
Job Title : Lead Business System Analyst With Retail Domain Experience
Job Location : Seattle, WA USA or Vancouver Canada
Job Hire Mode: Fulltime
Job Title : Lead Business System Analyst With Retail Domain Experience
Job Location : Seattle, WA USA or Vancouver Canada
Job Hire Mode: Fulltime
Required areas of expertise: Retail Experience is a must. Should have strong lead experience. Strong technical aptitude with data including ODS and airflow orchestration / data pipeline. Understand lead 4 tier hierarchy to support program level planning / roadmap working closely with PdMs and program managers. Ability to lead all analysts for pre / inseason
application teams by understanding core product functionality and cross functional business process.
Position Details:
We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst to be part of a Strategic engagement through solid leadership and delivery management skills. This would be a position with high visibility to work with senior stakeholders to influence key decisions, opportunity to work with technology leaders and an enthusiastic global team.
We are seeking a Lead Business Analyst to be part of a Strategic engagement through solid leadership and delivery management skills. This would be a position with high visibility to work with senior stakeholders to influence key decisions, opportunity to work with technology leaders and an enthusiastic global team.
Responsibilities:
- Work with Product Manager/Owner and Sr Developers/Leads on documenting requirements associated with a particular
- initiative or EPIC.
- Develop and maintain functional specifications or "How to Use This Feature" documentation (when appropriate).
- Manage and lead the requirements gathering sessions.
Ticket Development & Refinement:
- Create and refine detailed User Stories consistent with the High Level Requirements noted in the associated EPIC.
- Refine Stories as needed so that they have required detailed to be actioned by the full scrum team.
- Elicit and document ticket dependencies, ensuring that information is tagged correctly and captured in the Dependency Huddle board.
- Ensure all stories meet the agreed "Definition of Ready" before being taken into sprint planning session.
Note: for Critical tickets brought in mid sprint, analyze and refine ticket to mitigate risk of ticket issues
Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective. Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external)
Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.
Contribute to work estimates as appropriate so that sprint planning is effective. Partnering with Third Party Teams (internal/external)
Facilitate necessary conversations with teams outside of INTL, ensuring necessary tickets are created to address the requirements.
Facilitate meetings with third parties as required to ensure the work is progressing in such a way as to meet overall EPIC or Project timelines.
Process Improvement:
- Help ensure a continual process improvement focus exists across the team, supporting an environment of experimentation and new practice trials.
- Contribute to and lead Process Improvement activities as appropriate and per PI roadmap plans, etc.
- Partner with peer Business Analysts to share and leverage lessons learned, always fostering A PI culture.
Test Plan Review:
- Review Test plan to ensure acceptance criteria is clearly noted and ensure they can be linked back to requirements Operations Support.
- When applicable, ensure third party information is up-to-date related to scheduled maintenance windows/planned outages:
- When applicable, ensure third party contact/issue resolution information is up to date.
Quarterly Planning:
- Review initial Business and Technical 'EPIC' requirements as part of pre planning and carry out detailed analysis in order to determine solution and specific stakeholder requirements
- Analyze platform and functionality along with facilitating as needed discussions with UX, Engineering and external teams (CoE, SRE, Analytics) in order to determine solution requirements, dependencies and risks.
- Communicate findings to Product Manager and support the updating of EPIC details and initial creation of user stories based on this analysis
- During quarterly planning provide QA and Engineering teams with details of analysis as needed in order to support the team in providing as accurate a LOE as possible given available information.
