Senior Agile Business Analyst

World Wide Technology, Application Services has an opportunity for a Senior Agile Business Analyst to assist with teams' and individuals' delivery of valuable software solutions. A Senior Agile Business Analyst is responsible for assisting the Product Owner and team to ensure that all necessary product ownership tasks are completed, that the appropriate upfront research and analysis has been conducted, and that the team's backlog is adequately refined.

• The Sr Agile BA [BD1] clearly understands the client's needs related to the product by working closely with the Product Owner, SMEs, and other business partners, so and clearly communicate the product vision and client's needs to the team.
• The Sr Agile BA conducts the necessary research and analysis to ensure that the appropriate information and context is available for the team to conduct productive story writing sessions.
• The Sr Agile BA reviews or creates process and flow maps to understand the business processes and system flows, in order to fully document the business domain.
• The Sr Agile BA documents any necessary business rules and logic needed to fully incorporate a business process into the system.
• The Sr Agile BA documents and identifies story dependencies to help facilitate backlog refinement and prioritization.
• The Sr Agile BA ensures that stories are written by the team and Product Owner at the appropriate level and size to allow the team to deliver value frequently.
• The Sr Agile BA manages a regular cadence for story definition, story writing, story review, and story prioritization to maintain a well-refined and prioritized backlog of sufficient length to support the team's velocity.
• The Sr Agile BA assists the PO with managing feature and/or story maps to help them facilitate product strategy decisions, release planning, and prioritization of work.
• The Sr Agile BA assists the Product Owner with defining what business value means to the client and how to assess each feature/story based on that business value to help maximize the value the team delivers.
• The Sr Agile BA assists the Product Owner with identifying goals, defining a product vision and a product strategy and ensures it is updated as needed.
• The Sr Agile BA is responsible for working with the Product Owner and Delivery Lead to ensure that the roadmap is kept up-to-date and reflects any changes in business priority.

• Practical experience working with stakeholders and others to identify, clarify, and articulate product vision
• Ability to demonstrate techniques for effectively interviewing stakeholders, SME's, and users to understand customer needs and utilize this information to generate appropriate business analysis artifacts such as: process flow maps, use cases, value stream maps, empathy maps, etc.
• Can illustrate techniques for researching and documenting business rules/logic
• Is effective in uncovering hidden and non-functional requirements
• Can show the ability to create process maps, map existing workflows and system flows, and identify areas for process improvement.
• Agile knowledge
• Can explain both agile and lean software development values and principles
• Can demonstrate how to conduct story mapping and user story writing sessions to create a product backlog
• Can understand, effectively communicate, visualize and validate how tactical work impacts and aligns with product strategy, vision, and business goals
• Can explain various ways to create user stories and document acceptance criteria
• Ability to conduct and document a gap analysis
• Meeting facilitation
• Has effectively lead meetings of 20 or more people
• Can illustrate examples of how to prepare for and run effective meetings
• Demonstrated skills facilitating remote meetings with participants across multiple locations
• Consulting skills
• Proactive, self-organizing and self-motivated
• Demonstrates leadership on the team
• Has experience in healthy conflict resolution and finding the best solutions to address issues and work effectively through disagreements
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills and has a customer focused mindset
• Embraces change and ambiguity
• Embraces and is effective at receiving and giving feedback
• Extremely effective in verbal and written communication
• Can effectively coordinate and work with distributed teams across different time zones
• Effective listening skills
• Embrace working on a high performing team
• Is able to and willing to work with distributed team members across the US (assume all time zones) and Hyderabad, India.

• Has had experience working with off-shore teams (India) or distributed teams[BD1] [BD2]
• Experience conducting and documenting functional decompositions of legacy systems
• Experience creating and using delivery metrics, predictability, and forecasting; given appropriate data, can create (and draw conclusions from) a forecast and communicate that information to stakeholders with progress updates and metrics

• Bachelors degree

• None

• 4+ years' experience as a member of an Agile software development teams, preferably as an Agile Business Analyst, Product Owner or Scrum Master
• 3+ years' experience working directly with business stakeholders
• 3+ years' experience performing Business Analysis responsibilities

• None

• Ability to travel (up to 25%) if needed
• Support a working a schedule that starts at 6:30am EST (7:30am EDT) when supporting teams in India.