Position: Business Analyst for Ciklum Digital
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Ciklum is a Software Engineering and Solutions Company. Our 3,000+ IT professionals are located in the offices and delivery centres in Ukraine, Belarus, Poland and Spain.

As Ciklum 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 US IoT World Hackathon, 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!

Description

On behalf of Ciklum Digital, Ciklum is looking for a Business Analyst to join the UA team on a full-time basis.

Project description:

Client is focused on harnessing the convergence of AI, microelectronics and scalable digital technologies with diagnostic and preventative eye care to bring innovative solutions for eye diseases to market.

“The vision is to eliminate preventable blindness. By transforming the delivery of today's eye-care, we are improving patient access to intuitive and affordable diagnostics and treatments. We believe it should be easy for doctors to deliver superior outcomes to their patients. Our technology empowers patients to care for their own vision in between doctors visits. To accomplish these goals, we develop, market and commercialize transformative innovations in diagnostics, sensing, and preventative / medical / surgical treatments for eye diseases.”

Responsibilities
- Help defining business needs and goals. 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
- Strong English verbal and written communication skills
- 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
- 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

Desirable
- Master degree or higher (in Computer Science or similar)
- Business education
- Good knowledge in at least one Business Domain: finance, accounting, media, travel, logistics
- Knowledge in product management best practices
- One of the following (desirable): IIBA CCBA, OMG UML, OMG BPMN, PMI-PBA

Personal 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

What's in it for you
- Ability to work on challenging projects, deal with complex solutions
- Nicely designed, centrally located offices with warm atmosphere that creates good working conditions
- Unique working environment where you communicate and work directly with client