Position: Business Analyst
Company: Forte Group Inc.
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

Great software doesn’t happen on its own. It takes great people. That just happens to be our forte. With nearly 20 years of matching top engineering talent with preeminent and innovative brands, we look for people who are inquisitive, resourceful, dedicated to their craft, and driven to help companies build great software. If this sounds like you, read on.

**Project Description:**

Our client provides leading online learning solutions to licensed professionals who strive to be among the best in their fields. Through many leading brands they serve more than 1,000,000 professionals each education period in real estate, healthcare, and financial services industries, among others. Their comprehensive learning platforms give working professionals a competitive edge throughout their careers by combining continuing education with up-to-date information, practical on-the-job application, and online accessibility.

**Responsibility:**

● Know our product best from the business perspective
● Know and understand 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 that backend integrations are correctly prioritised and timely delivered to avoid impediments created for the product feature teams
● Create backlog items and explain details about functional and nonfunctional requirements to a Development Team
● Define and foster collaboration on clarifying requirements and acceptance criteria together with Management and Development Team, so that the right size stories are created
● Coordinate and facilitate sprint planning, 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 сlient and Development Team, making sure requirements are clear enough and Development Team is not blocked by waiting for the requirements clarifications
● 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 microservices environment, networks protocols
● Understanding of general principles of building modern web applications, frontend, backend, microservices, cloud solutions
● Good communication skills, experience working with clients and team 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 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 the 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