Position: Business Analyst
Company: Forte group
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Project description**
As a Business Analyst, you will have the opportunity to be a part of a team working on a web application to automate the analysis of customer financial information. You will work on a mortgage offer aggregator that allows users to upload all financial documents and get information on what conditions they could get a mortgage. The platform contains multiple areas of functionality such as consumer web application, business administration application, agents portal, CRM system, documents processing, IP-telephony integration, integrations with multiple engines to automate financial calculations. Your main area of responsibility will be to own and coordinate the backlog for backend integrations between internal modules/microservices and 3rd party systems.

**Team structure and Workflow**
The team is international and distributed across Belarus, Ukraine, and the United States. Teams use Azure DevOps to manage the backlog and to prioritize work items. Communication mainly consists of daily meetings and interpersonal communication via Slack and Google Meet. We’re following the Scrum process and practice the Agile Way of Working in close, day-to-day collaboration with each other.

**Responsibility**
● Know our product best from the business perspective
● Know and understand the high-level architecture of the product, including backend services and 3rd party integrations
● Ensure alignment between integration solutions and the other product components in order to support our product development plans in the short/mid and long term
● Ensure those backend integrations are correctly prioritized and timely delivered to avoid impediments created for the product feature teams
● Create backlog items in collaboration with the Product Owner (PO) and explain details about functional and nonfunctional requirements to a Development Team
● Define and foster collaboration on clarifying requirements and acceptance criteria together with PO and Development Team, so that the right size stories are created
● Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning alongside with PO, so that Development Team is provided with the required level of details and can confidently plan and commit to sprint scope aligned with the business priorities
● Act as a general daily communication bridge between PO and Development Team, making sure requirements are clear enough and Development Team is not blocked by waiting for the requirements clarifications
● Maintain structure, dependencies, and states across product backlog items in Azure DevOps according to the agreed Way of Working
● Make sure backlog is timely prepared for the Development Team and always exists for a few sprints ahead
● Work as an integral part of Scrum team, foster Agile values, and follow agreed Way of Working

**Requirements**
● System thinking and analytical mindset
● Technical background in software engineering
● Understanding of key principles of service-oriented architecture, communication in a microservices environment, networks protocols, service bus
● Understanding of general principles of building modern web applications, frontend, backend, microservices, cloud solutions
● Good communication skills, experience working with clients and teams located abroad
● Upper-intermediate English (fluent preferred)
● Experience working as a Technical Product Owner or Business Analyst in an Agile environment
● Understanding of SDLC from the backlog formation, through development and testing, promotional across environments, towards deployment to production
● Proven business and systems analysis skills coupled with the ability to translate non-structured input into well-structured requirements with a sense of expected business value
● Being able to find efficient solutions and capable to reach a compromise between meeting non-functional technical requirements and constantly delivering value for the business
● Proven experience in creating project and user documentation as well as reports to stakeholders
● Proficiency with Product Backlog management tools such as Azure DevOps (VSTS), Jira, or similar
● Understanding of CI/CD principles, branching strategies, approaches to testing, A/B testing, user behavior analytics would be a plus

**We offer**
● Friendly team and enjoyable working environment
● Attractive salary
● Innovative solutions delivery
● Experience collaborating with colleagues all around the world
● Opportunities for self-realization
● Technical knowledge sharing, corporate and social events
● Social package - professional / soft skills trainings, medical / family care programs, sport compensation
● English classes