Position: Senior Business Analyst (BA) / Scrum Master
Company: Newfire Global Partners
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

**Requirements:**
- 4+ years Requirements Management / Business Analysis experience.
- Experience in developing and managing processes analysis and documenting.
- Strong understanding of Underlying BA Competencies
- Advanced knowledge of BA Techniques
- Managing requirements analysis and design definition
- Setting up elicitation and collaboration processes
- Scaling Agile Processes (Scrum/Kanban...).
- Strong understanding of SDLC
- Advanced spoken and written English.
- Strong communication skills.
- Advanced DB knowledge and practical experience (PostgreSQL, SQL or similar).
- Deep Experience with Atlassian Products (Jira, Confluence).
- Object-oriented programming experience in any programing language will be a huge plus.
- Reliable team player and mentorship skills.
- Professional BA certifications (starts from CCBA, CBAP, CBDA, AAC) will be a huge plus.
- Advanced interpersonal skills

**Responsibilities:
- Work with the client’s teams and management in order to:
gather product vision and help the PO sharpen it if needed
gather business value and help the PO sharpen it if needed
effective management of client’s expectations.
- Requirements elicitation, documenting and management (functional, non-functional, quality attributes).
- Establish and manage effective partnerships with other Scrum teams (external and internal).
- Assist SM in launching and closing the sprints by clarifying questions from the Designer and Dev team.
- Build an effective working environment, support level of fun and team spirit in the team
- Monitor bottlenecks/risks and contribute to the continuous delivery process through understanding business needs in short & long term perspective
- Suggest and design solutions to improve the client’s product.
- Demonstrate a high-edged mindset. 
- Motivating that helps bring forth a desired behavior or response from the employees or certain stakeholders.
- Problem-solving in management involves identifying a certain problem or situation and then finding the best way to handle the problem and get the best solution.
- Facilitating Scrum ceremonies, grooming, stand-ups, team communications, and decision making with the team.
- Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments
- Provide reports and dashboards with metrics of the health of sprint/project/programs.
- Maintaining the accuracy of Scrum tools like JIRA Tickets, Burndown Chart, Reports, etc.
- Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog
- Assist with resource management duties such as staffing, timesheet approvals, onboarding, performance reviews, promotions/terminations, etc.

Senior business analysts has experience writing specifications which were approved by business users / project managers. Developed structure & populated own Wiki. sBA has working experience with different methodologies. sBA has expertise in 2+ domains. Familiar (or has practical experience) in at least one programming language, preferred OOP.  sBA is able to find relations and inconsistencies in DB. Has ability to negotiate with different stakeholders to resolve conflicts. Identify problems and then implement solutions as fast and effectively as possible. Able to work independently.
sBA will have to temporarily (3-5 months) act as Scrum Master facilitating all ceremonies, removing impediments and educating client on Scrum if necessary.