Senior/Lead Business Analyst (#1716)

N-iX is a software development service company that helps businesses across the globe develop successful software products. During 20 years on the market and by leveraging the capabilities of Easter Europe talents, the company has grown to 2000+ professionals with a broad portfolio of customers in the area of Fortune 500 companies and technological start-ups. With its headquarters in Lviv, Ukraine, the company also has multiple development offices in the East European region and representative entities in the United States of America, Sweden, and Malta.

Throughout the years of its operations, the company has developed strong expertise in such fields as digital turn-key solutions engineering, cloud services, big data & analytics, user experience design, engineering excellence, digital platforms integration, and its own R&D in different domains such as financial services & banking, telecommunications, e-commerce, automotive, manufacturing, and others.

N-IX is looking for a skilled Lead BA to join our Product team. We expect that the best suitable candidate is ready to face challenges, take part in solution-making, and handle tasks independently while working as a part of a team. 
Project:
The OVO Group’s mission is to drive progress towards net zero carbon living. We’re a collection of companies with a single vision: to power human progress with clean affordable energy for everyone. At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. You will be joining a team passionate about developing a quality product following an agile development methodology. You will be encouraged to always be looking at the continuous improvement of our products, tools and processes.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders, product managers, and teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs.
• Identify and define business needs and goals, and clearly outline the stakeholders’ impact.
• Analyze capability gaps between As-Is and To-Be states, and suggest improvement methods and appropriate solution options.
• Elicit and formalize functional and non-functional requirements.
• Moderate meetings and workshops.
• Manage backlog, plan iterations, and elaborate user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Manage solution scope, detect and track changes.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in business analysis/product owner role.
• Knowledge of SDLC and agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to create clear and concise requirements documentation (including diagrams, UML, BPMN).
• Attention to detail, strong logic mindset, ability to identify corner cases and provide the solution for the product.
• Strong knowledge in practices and techniques of business analysis, requirements gathering, and solutions assessment.
• Work in an agile development team
• Write clear, accurate user stories and acceptance criteria and then work with developers to see these through to delivery
• Document solution flows that show interdependencies with other tech teams
• Work with stakeholders to document business needs
• Communication and facilitation skills, proactive approach in communication at all levels.
• Knowledge of JIRA and Confluence.
• Good understanding of UX and design.
• Advanced English.