Business Architect

Title: Senior Business Analyst

Job Location: Hyderabad, Chennai, Cochin, Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Pune

Experience: 9+ years

Important Note: We are hiring for a Techno-Functional Business Analyst with background as a Developer (preferably Java or .Net). We are looking for a candidate who is expertise in providing business solutions.

Business Analysts conduct market analyses, analyzing both product lines and the overall profitability of the business. In addition, they develop and monitor data quality metrics and ensure business data and reporting needs are met. Strong technology, analytical and communication skills are must-have traits

Essential Responsibilities:

• Evaluating business processes, anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and developing and implementing solutions.
• Leading ongoing reviews of business processes and developing optimization strategies.
• Staying up to date on the latest process and IT advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Conducting meetings and presentations to share ideas and findings.
• Understand the business requirements and documenting and translating into features / user stories.
• Ensure the system design is perfect as per the needs of the customer. Participating in functionality testing and user acceptance testing of the new features.
• Developing business artifacts in relate to the client business and conducting formal training sessions for the team.
• Acting as a coach on assigned projects and assignments; and providing business related direction and clarification to the developers and other project stakeholders.
• Develop a team culture where everyone thinks from end user perspective.
• Performing requirements analysis.
• Documenting and communicating the results of your efforts.
• Effectively communicating your insights and plans to cross-functional team members and management.
• Gathering critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and producing useful reports.
• Working closely with clients, technicians, and managerial staff.
• Providing leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.
• Allocating resources and maintaining cost efficiency.
• Ensuring solutions meet business needs and requirements.
• Performing user acceptance testing.
• Managing projects, developing project plans, and monitoring performance.
• Updating, implementing, and maintaining procedures.
• Prioritizing initiatives based on business needs and requirements.
• Serving as a liaison between stakeholders and users.
• Managing competing resources and priorities.
• Monitoring deliverables and ensuring timely completion of projects.

Requirements:

• A bachelor’s degree in business or related field or an MBA.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in business analysis or a related field.
• Should be from development background.
• should be a business solution expertise.
• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Insurance Domain experience is must.
• The ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions.
• Advanced technical skills.
• Excellent documentation skills.
• Fundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skills.
• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations.

EverestEngineering -Software Engineering when you need it. High quality, scalable, distributed development teams are ready to help you now. Sustainable software development. Fit for purpose. Doing the right thing both for our customers and for yours.

As a team, we are passionate and motivated by the impact our organization can have on our customers, employees, the industry, and the world. We are here to accelerate software innovation by digitally connecting the global workforce. Through our experience, we know that working with remote teams and getting it right can become a competitive advantage for organizations. We want to provide this advantage to customers and partners that are trying to have a positive impact on the world through software innovation

Excellence is at the forefront of our mission. We see an opportunity to shift the narrative of working with offshore teams - from a frustrating cost-cutting exercise to a beneficial value addition.https://everest.engineering/

Our experience means we understand the problems software companies face trying to build offshore distributed teams because we've been there before ourselves.

We work iteratively together to manage these problems for you, or to provide extra capacity in peak times so that you can do what you do best – deliver amazing innovations and delighting your customers
To see the quality of our code, you can checkout some of our open source projects:  https://github.com/everest-engineering

Specialties- 

Big Data, Web Development, Mobile Development, Agile Development, Data Analytics, Software Product Development, and Remote Working

HeadQuarters- Melbourne, Victoria

We love people who in general - 

• have a passion to own and create amazing products.
• are able to clearly understand the customer’s problem.
• are a good collaborative problem solver.
• are a really really good team player.
• are open to learn from others and teach others.
• are able to take the meaningful feedback and improve continuously.
• can commit to inclusion, equality & diversity.
• can maintain integrity at work.

You are the one if - 

• you love solving problems.
• you have a keen interest in understanding and analysing the customer problems and solutions. 
• you possess good listening, communication (verbal & written) and presentation skills.
• you can empathise easily with customers.
• you can facilitate and lead workshops that generate customised business solutions.

• analyse the as-is system and collaborate with clients to create artefacts (personas, journeys, epics, stories, to-be system etc.) to outline business vision, objective, product roadmap, and a project release plan.
• effectively manage the scope and constraints of the project.
• work in agile teams that help in the successful delivery of a project.
• effectively prioritise and obtain buy-in from all the stakeholders to help the team with the requirements.
• write detailed stories to help the team understand the requirements.
• demonstrate flexibility in picking up things/roles needed for the successful delivery of the project. 
• collaborate with the UX team to understand and contribute to the user research & design process.
• be an effective liaison between the client and your team to manage the product backlog and keep an eye on the software delivery.

Responsibilities: 

• Under general direction, formulate and define system scope and objectives using knowledge of information technology and industry knowledge/requirements.
• Act as a liaison between customer and technical solutions/support groups, using strong communication skills to elicit, document, analyze and validate business processes, systems, and solution requirements.
• Research, identify, and specify solutions to problems.
• Support and conduct visualization, user experience and configuration elements of solution design.
• Document requirements specifications using high-maturity methods, processes and tools.eg (Microsoft Visio or Lucid Chart )
• Support requirements management and change management processes.
• Support aspects of the business cycle, including proposals, feasibility studies, and implementations.
• Should have a strong understanding of product, use cases, user journey (flow), business requirements and integration

Requirements: 

• Business Analysts in this role will have successfully demonstrated the following skills.
• Requirements Elicitation - researching, interviewing.
• Requirements Determination - using structured, repeatable processes for documenting, analysing and validating requirements.
• Structured Requirements- capturing details with precision; driving out ambiguity; ensuring consistent understanding across clients, designers and testers.
• Scope Management - defining scope, managing expectations, identifying potential change
• Requirements Management - creating and maintaining baselines and traceability
• Change Management - identifying, assessing and managing changes
• Creativity and Problem Solving - bringing innovative ideas to complex problems
• Collaboration - building relationships and working effectively with internal and external teams, at all organisational levels
• Verbal: explaining, questioning, exploring and listening
• Written: presenting information and communicating concepts to business and technical audiences at all levels.
• Flexibility: Candidates must be flexible and able to adapt quickly and confidently to rapidly changing roles, objectives, and priorities.
• Educational background should include a Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline or a Master's degree

Our client acts as an all-in-one OKR platform that focuses on aligning the client’s strategic priorities, projects and goals and thus to drive exceptional results & culture, without changing the team's behaviours. Some of their products include OKR software, performance reviews, engagement insights, 1:1 meetings, CoffeeConnect etc. They have served 500+ companies from 60+ countries. Some of their clients are Dunzo, Plum, Udaan, KhataBook etc.

Headquartered in San Francisco, California, our client was founded in 2018 by well-experienced entrepreneurs, one of whom is an IIT-Delhi graduate and the other is a NIT, Trichy graduate.

What you will do:

• Understanding: Empathetically understanding client’s needs and problems. Being agood listener and imbibing with those problem statements
• Solution: Solving client’s problem through Company’s SaaS solutions and demonstrating Company’s products using a consultative approach
• Closing: Exceeding monthly/quarterly sales targets in the given market
• Process Orientation: Meeting the sales process standards and effectively using sales tools like HubSpot CRM
• Pipeline Management: Managing end to end sales pipeline for the company to deliver spectacular growth through precise forecasting
• Relationship Management: Being face of Company before the client. Being a trusted advisor for the clients.

Desired Candidate Profile