Technical Business Analyst

Coates Group; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 108,675 - 132,825; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual market competitive bonus program

Flexible work options

Wellness paid day off

Community service day

Virtual wellness activities

Job summary

Coates Group, a leader in technology solutions based in Chicago, is seeking a professional to gather and analyze business requirements. You will engage with internal stakeholders and clients to document technical and functional needs while facilitating collaboration within teams.

The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in similar roles, strong analytical skills, and a background in Digital software. We offer competitive salaries and various flexible work options to support a healthy work-life balance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in a similar role.
• Experience creating functional specifications for Digital software products.
• Experience working in both agile and waterfall methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Gather, analyze, and document technical and functional business requirements.
• Develop strong working relationships with stakeholders.
• Facilitate the creation of traceability matrices from requirements to test cases.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Excellent communication skills

Proven analytical abilities

Team collaboration

Education

Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Figma

Job description

Be Part of Our Next Chapter

For over almost 60 years, our solutions have enabled impactful connections between some of the world’s leading brands and their customers. And while we’ve already done a lot of work we’re proud of, we’re just getting started!

We’re a global technology company focused on creating dynamic, smart, personalized and engaging customer experiences powered by our range of digital hardware, our proprietary content management system and our industry leading signage solutions. (For example: If you’ve ordered in-store or in the drive-thru at McDonald’s somewhere in the world in the last few years, chances are you’ve interacted with our digital solutions.) We work in over 50 global markets and have 9 offices around the world, with a global headquarters proudly located in our founding home of Sydney, Australia.

Coates Group has the values of a family-owned business and the innovative spirit of a start-up, both which fuel our purpose – Creating Connections. Empowering Partnerships. Always Evolving. Through hard work, dedication and creativity, we’ve become industry leaders who have won awards and set records while remaining focused on continual growth and evolution. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are curious, charismatic and authentic and we value and leverage the diversity of our crew. We are imaginers, kindness enthusiasts, experts, creators, thinkers, challengers, collaborators and over-achievers. And together, as a Crew, we are revolutionizing the way the world’s leading brands leverage technology to drive the best customer experiences.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with customers, product managers and business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document technical and functional business requirements that meet business outcomes.
• Conduct workshops and interviews to elicit, validate, and document clear business requirements.
• Map client requirements into product epics/features.
• Decompose product epics/features into user stories/tickets with detailed functional and technical requirements, and clear acceptance criteria.
• Develop strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and external clients to define and confirm business requirements.
• Provide content for the Product Manager to include in external-facing product documentation describing features, business rules, and use cases.
• Create necessary artefacts, including capability gap analysis and process flow diagrams.
• Support the maintenance and update of user guides based on functional changes as projects are delivered.
• Support the creation of UAT test cases with the consideration of client acceptance scenarios and conduct internalUATof delivered features.
• Facilitate the creation of traceability matrices from detailed requirements to test cases.
• Identify opportunities to improve internal processes and practices and propose practical solutions to be implemented.
• Conduct research and develop a thorough understanding of customer needs and new technologies in collaboration with Product Managers to ensure alignment with Product vision.
• Cross team collaboration to manage functional dependencies and ensure these are considered as part of sprint planning and during sprints.
• Able to get into detail in terms of technical solutions to influence the best options for functional changes that still meet business needs but also meet strict project schedules.

Capabilities

• Strong stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication skills to present information and translate between technical and business requirements.
• Ability to work autonomously.
• Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactively seeks to understand customer problem to ensure solutions are fit for purpose.
• Strong collaborator, able to work as a team player with Tech Leads and Project Managers to drive joint outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience within a similar role.
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
• Experience in Digital Software for 5+ years (preferred).
• Experience creating detailed functional specifications for Digital software products (5 years).
• Experience using Figma to create or update wireframe designs as required.
• Experience working in both agile and waterfall methodologies.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
• Knowledge of BABOK and business process mapping methods.

$120,750 - $120,750 a year

About Coates

We are industry leaders who have won awards and set records. We are a 2x Australia Good Design Award winner and we successfully completed the largest hardware deployment in Quick Service Restaurant history.

We are led by a forward-thinking CEO who has demonstrated a true passion for people and making Coates a place where people genuinely enjoy working. Our growth plans enable a focus on providing rapid career advancement opportunities for our talent.

Together, we are creators, allowing us to make our purpose a reality – to create immersive brand experiences for everyone.

Join a Crew that Cares

Be part of a global team of talented, ambitious, creative people that value integrity, individuality and inclusivity. (Ask us about our Equality + Empowerment Initiatives).

The benefits include an annual market competitive bonus program and our “Thrive Program” which includes a suite of flexible work options because we’re strong believers that you should never miss an important life or work moment. Thrive also provides dedicated time to prioritize our health and wellbeing (think virtual Yoga or meditation sessions), a Global Wellness paid day off to recharge as well as a “Give Back Day” to allow our Crew an opportunity to make an impact in the community.

Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Coates Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, national or ethnic origin, gender, religion, disability, age, political affiliation or belief, disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam Era, or citizenship status (except in those special circumstances permitted or mandated by law).