Business Analyst - Remote (Req #649)

Founded in 1994, Mindex specializes in software development for large enterprise clients in the Rochester, NY area and for New York State K-12 schools. We are a rapidly growing organization expanding heavily into cloud app. development and modernizing our home-grown K-12 Student Management System, SchoolTool.

We are looking for a candidate with an agile background with the primary responsibility of creating shared understanding of solution requirements through User Flows, Story Maps, User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, and other agile artifacts. The analyst must have strong communication skills and will work heavily with their agile teams and with client stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Gathers and analyzes requirements for complex projects using strategies which includes interviews and observations, workshops, and documents.
• Develops a deep understanding of the body of work, partners with the team and project stakeholders to elaborate clear solution requirements.
• Demonstrates the ability to use resources available to identify technical requirements.
• Partners with PO to ensure there is shared understanding between the team and project stakeholders.
• Evaluates information gathered from multiple sources and facilitates consensus between stakeholder groups.
• Participates in PI planning projects alongside the Product Owner and Scrum Master to ensure scope and delivery plans align.
• Facilitates refinement of requirements and team estimations via elaboration and refinement sessions to ensure scrum team alignment for functional and non-functional requirements while championing a predictable estimate for all requirements for up to 2 teams.
• Works with Product Owner to understand and communicate priority of backlog items.
• Demonstrates the ability to partner with the teams Product Owner to represent Product team interests in meetings as necessary.
• Represents Product Owner on project teams, as a back up, to assist in answering questions and to provide direction to project agile teams as needed.
• Engages and actively collaborates within the Agile Triangle.
• Through collaboration with the team Scrum Master, Agile Delivery Lead and Product Delivery Leads influence agile process & team norm changes.
• Demonstrates the ability to use graphical representation to augment textual requirements such as diagrams, models, workflow diagrams, and story maps.

Requirements

• BS degree in Business, Communications, or related area preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 1-2 years of Business Analysis experience.
• Preferred knowledge in any of the following areas: basic data analysis, public speaking, agile methodologies, software delivery life cycle (SDLC).