Position: Middle Scrum Master/Business Analyst, Cloud Backend Services
Company: DataArt
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

This position is responsible for the overall success of a high-profile IT team by identifying and delivering on innovative solutions to complex business problems. Primarily the Middle Business Analyst/Scrum Master will be responsible for the design, development, execution, and advisement of technical and process solutions. The Middle Business Analyst/Scrum Master act as the interface between product owners/business units and technology teams and leads the technology teams’ processes. This position also requires ensuring the customer’s requirements are captured with comprehensive, accurate user stories and acceptance criteria that are managed in JIRA with a properly prioritized product backlog.

Responsibilities

-Be an expert in team applications and be able to teach and demo all functionality
-Work with team lead, product owner and stakeholders to identify, understand, and capture requirements; consolidate input from business and technical stakeholders
-Record requirements in the backlog and clearly explain to development team; be the bridge between technology team and business
-Draft requirements documentation for both functional and non-functional requirements
-Work with product owner and team lead to prioritize the backlog and prepare for upcoming sprints
-Lead backlog refinement sessions to prepare team for upcoming features
-Facilitate Agile ceremonies including daily standup, backlog refinement, sprint demo & retrospective, sprint planning
-Work closely with quality engineer to test features and ensure functionality and accuracy
-Remove impediments/ guide the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to help with the situation
-Facilitate discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution
-Assist with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information
-Provide support to users by troubleshooting and working with development team to resolve issues
-Manage release activities and required documentation and approvals; coordinate and execute code releases to production outside business hours
-Manage project management documentation and status updates and reports
-Create application documentation and reporting as requested
-Conduct risk assessment of strategic, technical, finance, or business factors impacting the project. Formulate and take corrective actions to mitigate deviations to the project plans and alert management of potential -problems when appropriate
-Potential to use SQL DB to pull data and reporting metrics

Must have

-Bachelor’s degree required (computer Science or Information Technology related discipline preferred)
-5+ years of experience as a business analyst, process developer, or software engineer
-Experience working with business units or other IT teams to gather requirements and translate them to a development team
-Experience playing the Scrum Master role for at least two years for a software development team that was diligently applying Scrum principles, practices, and theory
-Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach (example: Burndown techniques, numerous Retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc)