Technical Analyst

Jobylon AB; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobylon AB seeks a results-driven Business Analyst to translate business needs into technical system requirements, collaborating with product ownership and stakeholders.

You will identify gaps, ensure robust designs, and advocate for reusable components. Leverage APIs, docs, and agile practices to deliver value within aggressive timelines.

Qualifications

• Writes clear SQL queries to extract and validate data.
• Analyzes complex problems and translates into actionable requirements.
• Communicates effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Familiar with Agile/Scrum practices and iterative delivery.
• Collaborates well within cross-functional teams.
• Able to solve problems under pressure and adapt to changing priorities.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaboration with product ownership to translate business needs into technical system requirements.
• Identify requirement gaps proactively and issue to product ownership.
• Ensure non-happy path scenarios are considered and handled.
• Advocate for maintainable designs and reusable components.
• Exercise APIs and documentation to inform enhancements and new capabilities.
• Map data between interfacing systems and validate data integrity.
• Assist in developing and prioritizing features and epics for maximum value.

Skills

SQL queries

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Agile methodologies

Team player

Problem solving under pressure

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Assume leadership of collaboration with product ownership to translate business need into the technical system requirements of the product
• Proactively identify requirement gaps and issue to product ownership
• Ensure non-happy path scenarios are considered and handled
• Advocate for solutions that consider ease of maintenance and component reuse opportunities
• Leverage available documentation and exercises test versions of applications and APIs to understand existing functionality to inform enhancement opportunities and creation of new capabilities
• Investigate enterprise and vendor APIs to determine whether necessary data is available to support intended system capabilities
• Map data between interfacing systems
• Assist lead analysts in developing and prioritizing features and epics to ensure work focuses on requirements with maximum value and are aligned with product delivery strategy
• Participate in project planning, sprint and release planning, daily stand-up meetings (scrums), demos/reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement meetings, and other Scrum-related meetings.
• Perform application and services tests/validations
• Responsible for creating system requirement documentation for applications and services, including interface specifications
• Provide demos to internal project team, as well as to business stakeholders.
• Works closely with Business, Quality Assurance team and developers on projects and to address production issues
• Demonstrate ability to excel in a fast-paced environment with aggressive timelines that require managing multiple priorities concurrently
• Utilize system documentation, database information, application logs and scenario testing to determine root cause of system issues.

Qualifications

• Ability to write SQL queries
• Problem solving skill – Works well under pressure and challenges, team-player, good listener, analytical, creative, approachable, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to partner with various levels of leadership within the organization
• Conducting complex technical analysis across multiple products
• Work in Agile methodology
• Writing requirements for a system
• Writing front end mobile and/or web application requirements is a plus
• Writing back-end service requirements is a plus
• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs is a plus
• Experience capturing technical requirements for information systems/applications
• Experience working with APIs
• Familiarity with multi-tier applications (application layer, services layer, data layer)

Desired Qualifications

• Experience using tools such as Postman or SoapUI to exercise APIs
• Experience in the financial industry
• Experience working on requirements for native mobile applications