Business Systems Analyst Lead

06 Aug 2024

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Job Description:

Position Summary: ETS provides products and services that impact the lives of students and learners worldwide. As a Lead Business Systems Analyst at ETS you will have the opportunity to join a dynamic team working in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for cross functional analysts who can use cutting edge technologies to solve complex problems, and who are driven to deliver value in alignment with the ETS mission to advance quality and equity in education. You will work directly with the product owner, and take responsibility for the quality of all of your deliverables. You are dynamic and demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning. You are equally as comfortable working independently as you are collaborating with a team.

Responsibilities:
  • Coach teams on best practices in Agile and scrum
  • Collaborate with scrum teams to develop cloud native solutions in AWS using common patterns (microservices, event driven/serverless, choreography, etc)
  • Ideate with Product Owners and teammates and deliver full stack solutions in short cycles with frequent releases
  • Practice Servant Leadership, especially in the context of the engineers responsible for delivering working software
  • Proactively lead and mentor team members on modern software principles
  • Give and receive constructive feedback to drive continuous improvement
  • Help teams to continuously measure their performance by producing dashboards and metrics natively in issue and release tracking systems, i.e. Jira
  • Ensure that all delivered software follows best practices in DevOps, CI-CD, and automation
  • Deliver testable, maintainable and high-quality code and take operational responsibility for the components that you develop
  • Work in a fast-paced team using agile principles across multiple products
  • Stay current with emerging trends in cloud software development, including compute, data persistence, and workflow management technologies
  • Focus on customer needs in order to understand intended outcomes and collaborate with the team to solution around that value
  • Monitor and measure the performance of software solutions across environments
  • Produce high quality, professional documentation for stakeholders of varying technical backgrounds
  • Lead teams in effectively balancing new feature development with support of existing production software
  • Ensure the quality and consistency of data required for integrated testing across environments
  • Model a detail oriented approach to day-to-day activities that raises the performance of the teams that you work with

Requirements:
  • Experience in using Collaborative tools (Jira/Confluence) for task management, breakdown, estimation and tracking.
  • Understanding of Agile techniques and ability to rapidly iterate in a dynamic environment
  • Strong problem solving, analytical, and communications skills
  • Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communications skills
  • Experience building cloud-native solutions with Amazon AWS (CDK, CFTs, variety of AWS services, provisioning Infrastructure as code)
  • Some experience with programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, etc preferred
  • Experience with web service development (RESTful/json)
  • Experience supporting web applications using (Angular, KendoUI, HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
  • Proficiency with relational databases and SQL
  • Experience with DevOps (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, Containerization)
  • Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk, DynaTrace, AWS CloudWatch
Experience with agile software development and the ability to rapidly iterate in a dynamic environment

Experience and Skills

Education, Certifications, or Special Licenses:
  • A Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Information Processing or business-related curricula, or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired is necessary.

Relevant Years of Experience:
  • Minimum 6-8 years of progressively responsible experience in IT Project Management, business analysis and/or software development

Other Requirements:
  • Strong experience with software testing standards, practices, methods and tools
  • Excellent planning, organization and problem identification skills
  • Excellent information and data analysis skills
  • Prior experience in financial applications preferred
  • Demonstrated problem solving ability
  • Excellent technical and business terminology to consult with clients, vendors and other internal staff
  • Proven ability to work effectively on multiple projects simultaneously (balance workload)
  • Ability to issue direction in a collaborative, team-based environment
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COVID-19 Requirements ETS requires all new hires to either certify that they have been fully vaccinated or request and obtain an exemption due to medical or religious reasons by their start date.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer of Women and Minorities.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer of protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE is a Drug-free workplace.

  • ID: #44642827
  • State: New Jersey Princeton 08540 Princeton USA
  • City: Princeton
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-08-06
  • Deadline: 2022-10-04
  • Category: Et cetera