A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Technical Product Analyst for our client in the McLean, VA area.
Overview:
- To compile, research, analyze, and document data, requirements, work flow/processes, and functionality for respective ETS group.
- To develop and evaluate information and prepare recommendations.
- To partner with Technology Product Owner (TPO) in the creation, management, and maintenance of product boards and product backlogs.
Responsibilities:
- Clearly presents status and issues in a variety of oral and written formats and leads product meetings.
- Authors wide variety of user stories/features/product backlog items; provides critical feedback to other stories/features/backlog items.
- Liaise between product development team and business area.
- Conducts requirements analysis and validation, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.
- Solves business problems by defining systems solutions via interviewing stakeholders, identifying and evaluating alternatives, and presenting findings.
- Manages medium-large projects/product lines either solo or as part of a team of Analysts.
- Recognizes and proactively raises issues or risks along with well-considered solutions.
- Elicits and documents functional and non-functional requirements using variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and diagramming.
- Represents requirements using alternative views, such as epics/features/stories/product backlog items, models, diagrams, prototypes, or scenarios, to facilitate communication to the project/product team.
- Tracks and manages requirements status and changes throughout project/product lifecycle via board/backlog management and maintenance.
- Creates and communicates artifacts translating business needs into executable requirements.
- Contributes to department/branch process improvements.
- Manages multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals via effective organizational, planning, and time management skills.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Possesses/maintains significant experience with Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio; artifacts and deliverable are polished and professional.
- Possesses/maintains significant experience with Microsoft ADO boards.
- Demonstrates and applies knowledge in IT solution creation and delivery to assigned project/product.
- Demonstrates competence in planning, organization, and multi-tasking.
- Service Now knowledge.
- Possesses/maintains solid skills with data querying, reporting, and analysis; comfortable recommending solutions to problems
- Possesses/maintains solid verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.
Desired:
- Certifications in MS Azure Cloud Fundamentals, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is helpful.