Business Analyst (Remote, USA)

17 Nov 2024

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Job Description

Are you a strategic thinker? Does business process optimization excite you? Do you love ecommerce? Do you enjoy creating Features and Epics and breaking them down into stories that define how users will interact with these features? If you answered yes to these questions, McFadyen has an opportunity for you!

This individual will interact with a variety of business stakeholders as a cross-functional liaison to understand client requirements and issues. Partner with Architects and technical leads to innovate solutions. Create documentation and other artifacts to turn strategy into reality. Independently initiate, facilitate, and participate in fact-finding, green-field discussions, and implementation planning and design meetings. You will suggest innovative solutions to business problems that leverage technology for achieving market differentiation, efficiency improvements, and better user experiences for our clients.

Responsibilities

Top 5Responsibilities

  • eCommerce requirements gathering,analyzing,and documenting requirements for large-scale (e.g.,Fortune 500 or equivalent)projectsand manage the requirements scope.
  • Successfully and independently handle ambiguous situations and develop a practical plan towards achieving clarity - whiledefiningfunctional behavior, business rules, and dataattributes.
  • Work with the business stakeholders or sponsors to translate business needs into business and functionalrequirements, fix the functional gaps and add alltheminute details.
  • Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process analysis, use cases or user stories, scenarios, event lists, competitive product analysis, and task and workflowanalysis.
  • Act asa product owner for the development and QA team, clarifythedoubtsof developersand test engineers, validate thedevelopedfunctional solutionand test casesand provide a demo to the client.

Other responsibilities:

  • Present solution alternatives to clients that meet their businessrequirements.
  • Work in a globally distributed teammodel.
  • Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements or userstories.
  • Represent requirements using alternative views such as visual analysis models (UML diagrams), prototypes, or simulations whereappropriate.
  • Lead requirements validation activities to confirm that a solution based on the requirements would meet customer needs and achieve the businessobjectives.
  • Lead andfacilitateongoing requirementsprioritization.
  • Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including continuous improvement.Assistwith the development of the organization’s requirements engineering policies, procedures, andtools.
  • Identifyways toassistproduct management in product planning through requirements development and analysis. Propose new product features andupdates.
  • Conduct research, analysis, and feasibility studies toestablishthe viability ofrequirements.
  • Travel to client sites as needed (post-pandemic).
  • Bring best practices and support to the other eCommerce teams as relates to business knowledge and business processes.

Qualifications

Top 5 qualifications

  • Experience in IT or eBusiness, including experience with e-commerce, web application development, or other eBusiness solutions.
  • Strongfacilitationand communication skills across business and technical audiences.
  • Familiarity with a broad array of internet technologies andtrends.
  • Understanding of eCommerce internationalization and localization complexities: content in multiple languages, country-specific product availability, and tax & paymentprocessing.
  • Experience in problem resolution with IT systems and individuals.

Other Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, MIS, Computer Science, or relatedmajor.
  • Proven experience in a Business Analystrole.
  • Experience with an enterprise class eCommerce platform.
  • Familiarity with Agile development processes where you quickly write effective user stories that can be broken into meaningful tasks by developers.
  • Familiarity with Jira isdesired.
  • Knowledge of multiple vertical industries such as retail, financial services, CPG, and healthcare is a plus

What we can offer you

  • A focus on career development and ongoing certifications
  • Work with cutting-edge platforms and technologies
  • Benefit from our flat management structure without a rigid hierarchy – great ideas can come from anywhere.
  • A community of passionate technical and strategic professionals you will both learn from and teach
  • Remote Work

Additional Information

Your Core Values:Client Focus, Owning the Outcome, Adaptability, Collaboration

Keywords:eCommerce, Hybris, ATG, Magento, Oracle,Shopify, MIRAKL, remote work, JIRA, PWA.

To Apply: We value smart, creative individuals who are multi-dimensional thinkers and thrive on professional development. Superb competence and continual improvement are key goals for everyone at McFadyen Solutions. This is an exciting opportunity with tremendous growth potential for someone who is focused on excellence. Your portfolio should impress us with great skills and conceptual problem-solving. We seek people who can demonstrate both compelling form and technical accuracy. Tell us why you would be a great addition to our team.

McFadyen Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law, where applicable.

  • ID: #22933595
  • State: Virginia Vienna 22180 Vienna USA
  • City: Vienna
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Full-time
  • Showed: 2021-11-17
  • Deadline: 2022-01-16
  • Category: Et cetera