Hiring - Technical Business Analyst - Atlanta, GA

Job Role:Technical Business Analyst 

Location: Atlanta, GA 

Job Type: W2 Contract 

Matlen/Delta 

Job Description:

Must be able to prioritize work on multiple project teams, with the overall goal of satisfying all deployment needs and effectively supporting diverse clients.

· Owns the scope of the project, works with Business sponsors, Sponsor users, identifies personas, defines the minimum viable product (MVP), and defines hypotheses.

· Managing and making visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development

· Defines, writes, and ranks the user stories that direct the design and development work.

· Prioritizing and iterating the order of items in the product backlog

· Being available to the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer’s needs and the customer’s views of how the team is implementing a product feature

· Collaborates with designers on the overall user experience, attends playbacks with sponsor users and stakeholders, and collaborates through user testing.

· Accepts user stories; that is, decides when a user story has delivered the outcome.

· Decides when to go to production and owns or collaborates on the "Go To Market" plan

· Works with the Squad Lead to execute the biweekly Iteration Planning Meeting"

· Strong experience in discovery, identification, and documentation of APIs

· Ability to work with multiple IT and business teams to gather and document API requirements

· Experience developing requirements and test scenarios for automated test suites for APIs

· Demonstrated experience with Agile or other rapid application development methods

· 3 - 5 years of project coordination and previous airline business experience is preferred

· Must possess the technical expertise to apply relevant technical processes to appropriate business needs

· Must be able to effectively and professionally communicate with management, staff and customers as well as demonstrate sound judgment/reasoning skills

· Ability to work independently to achieve exceptional results

· Candidate must have the ability to deliver quality work on time and translate planning into action by following applicable established procedures or methodologies

· Must also have the ability to proactively monitor and control task status by collecting and analyzing task data to anticipate and address barriers

· Strong communication, interpersonal skills, customer service skills, customer focus

· Coaches and mentors team members on business processes and in testing

Responsibilities:

· The ideal candidate works closely with the domain product and development teams to ensure that the team clearly understands the required functionality to meet market needs.

· Collaborates with product, project and development stakeholders and teams, gathering requirements, coordinating dependencies, and identifying risks and opportunities

· Conducts research, performs studies to obtain data; and analyzes problems to advise on or recommend solutions, utilizing knowledge of theory, principles

· Represents the customer to the development team

· Owns the scope of the project, works with Business sponsors, Sponsor users, identifies personas, defines the minimum viable product (MVP), and defines hypotheses

· Manages and makes visible the product backlog, or the prioritized list of requirements for future product development

· Defines, writes, and ranks the user stories that direct the design and development work

· Prioritizes by iterating the order of items in the product backlog

· Being available to the development team to answer any questions team members have regarding the customer’s needs and the customer’s views of how the team is implementing a product feature

· Collaborates with designers on the overall user experience, attends playbacks with sponsor users and stakeholders, and collaborates through user testing.

· Accepts user stories; that is, decides when a user story has delivered the outcome.

· Decides when to go to production and owns or collaborates on the "Go To Market" plan

· Works with the Squad Lead to execute the biweekly Iteration Planning Meeting

· Leads story grooming sessions or requirements clarifications sessions

· Translates product strategy into requirement documents, using cases and process flows

· Works with application support and development team to fix software bugs and escalated issues

· Ability to write necessary stories to deliver functionality, such as user interaction stories, or system integration stories or API level stories

· Documents, analyzes and proposes process changes or re-engineering approaches based on an understanding of technical problems and solutions as they relate to current and future state business and technical environments

Skills / experience that are a Plus

“nice to have”, but not necessarily required:

•Experience within AWS environments

Absolute Must Haves:

(Manager won’t budge on these skills / experience)

•Agile experience, writing user stories, working with backlog

•Experience gathering requirements from stakeholders

•familiar with APIs 

•Experience working with devops teams is a plus