What happens when you have fascinating clients with challenging problems on the one hand and passionate software developers looking to build future-focused solutions on the other? This in-between is where Business Analysts reside, acting as a bridge between the client and team. You will establish the outcomes software must achieve, assess how it will be used, and then generate bold ideas with our developers to create custom applications. You will work with clients across a variety of sectors and ensure the business-critical software solutions we develop deliver real business value every time.
Job Responsibilities
* Understand a client's business problems in order to build, maintain, and evolve product roadmaps to generate impactful solutions
* Assure effective collaboration between Thoughtworks' and the client's teams, encouraging open communication and advocating for shared outcomes
* Assess the as-is situation and collaborate with clients to create artifacts (personas, epics, stories, etc.) to maximize value
* Facilitate analysis workshops through "innovation games" with senior client stakeholders to outline business vision, objective, product roadmap, and a project release plan
* Help companies from a variety of industries achieve true, differentiating outcomes and engage with and influence senior business stakeholders on the client side
* Liaise between the client and the team—consisting of SMEs, C-suite executives, developers, quality analysts, tech architects, user experience designers, project managers—to manage the product backlog and keep an eye on software delivery
* Work in agile teams that facilitate organizational transformations for medium- and large-scale businesses
* Be involved in the Analyst community to share knowledge, mentor and evangelize Agile, Lean, and Continuous Development analysis best practices
Job Qualifications
Technical Skills
* Have a track record of delivering impactful software, ideally on a collaborative software delivery team
* Attention to detail, a practical approach to story-writing and delivery, and can draw a line directly from an overarching client strategy to the team's outcomes
* Enjoy unearthing root causes of a client's pain points, validating a business opportunity or problem, and partnering to deliver a solution
* Well versed with Agile, Lean and Continuous Delivery methodologies and love to mentor others
* Understand how businesses operate and have experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques to facilitate requirement elicitation sessions
* Design and facilitate workshops with business stakeholders to outline the business vision, objective, product roadmap, and a project release plan
* Well-versed with tech trends and can relate them to real-world business challenges at a program or project level
Professional Skills
* Enjoy coaching, have led a team and are an advocate for sharing knowledge with others
* Have a knack for prioritization, obtaining buy-in from stakeholders and resolving conflicts as they arise
* Resilient and flexible in ambiguous situations and enjoy solving problems from technical and business perspectives
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