Business Analyst for Ciklum

Ciklum is looking for a motivated and proactive Business Analyst to join our team in Kyiv on a full-time basis.

Job Purpose:

Establish and manage solution and stakeholder requirements in alignment with business needs and requirements. Lead solution scope management along with alternatives generation to ensure that final result covers client business needs and goals.

Responsibilities:

• Help defining business needs and goals. For Enterprises, clearly outline stakeholders' impact and their outlook on the project and teams.
• Collaborate proactively with business stakeholders, project managers, and teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs. Manage requirements communication considering the project's specifics and stakeholders' preferences. Moderate meetings and workshops.
• Manage solution scope, detect and track changes. Manage requirements related conflicts and issues up to resolution.
• Prioritize requirements and manage their allocation. Define quality attributes (nonfunctional requirements) including external interfaces and constraints.
• Evaluate business analysis processes and continuously improve them. Follow requirements lifecycle processes.
• Monitor solution implementation and conduct internal and external solution acceptance. Manage solution acceptance criteria.
• Care about continuous improvement of customer satisfaction.

Requirements:

Education:

• Master degree or higher (in Computer Science or similar, desirable).
• Business education (desirable).

Specialized Knowledge:

• Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques.
• Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence).
• Knowledge of prototyping tools.
• Good knowledge in at least one Business Domain (desirable): finance, accounting, media, travel, logistics.
• Knowledge in product management best practices (desirable).

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
• Systems thinking and functional decomposition skills.
• Strong analytical skills to make a critical assessment of the information from numerous sources.
• Modeling skills to represent requirements information in graphical form.
• Setting clear goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multi-tasking activities and prioritization.
• High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing stakeholders, conditions, circumstances and feedback. Quick learning.
• Good communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Self-confidence. Ability to accept criticism for continuous improvement.

Experience:

• IT industry experience: 1 year or more, including collaboration with clients abroad.
• Experience in business analysis or product management: 1 year or more, including defining solutions from idea to production.
• Experience in Agile methodologies: 1 year or more.

Working Conditions:

• Highly responsible work and tight schedule.
• Simultaneous handling and fast processing of multiple tasks.

Desirable:

Professional Certification:

• One of the following: IIBA CCBA, OMG UML, OMG BPMN, PMI-PBA.

What's in it for you?

• Learn from the team of senior professionals and BA community.
• Close collaboration with client from pre-sales to implementation.
• Improve competence with constant flow of new projects.
• Low bureaucracy, European management style.
• Collaborate with local and international teams.
• Flexible working hours, English classes, Great office space.

About Ciklum:

Ciklum is a top-five global Software Engineering and Solutions Company. Our 3,000+ IT professionals are located in the offices and delivery centers in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Spain.

As Ciklum's employee, you'll have the unique possibility to communicate directly with the client when working in Extended Teams. Besides, Ciklum is the place to make your tech ideas tangible. The Vital Signs Monitor for the Children's Cardiac Center as well as Smart Defibrillator, the winner of the IoT World Hackathon in the USA, are among the cool things Ciklumers have developed.

Ciklum is a technology partner for Google, Intel, Micron, and hundreds of world-known companies. We are looking forward to seeing you as a part of our team!