Position: System Analyst
Company: Grid Dynamics
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: fluent

It is a British international shoe manufacturer and retailer.  Mainly known for footwear & best known for quality children's footwear.   Known as pioneers and innovators with quality at the heart of everything they do. 

Our Business Analysts work closely with clients to effectively gauge the requirements of stakeholders, collaborate with a variety of stakeholders and teams and clearly define requirements. We help solve problems and propel our clients’ digital business growth. We ensure that in our close collaboration with clients we determine outcomes that will make a difference to customer experience, ROI and business goals. Our aim is that our business analysts are closely connected to client’s strategic visions, and can see the beneficial impact they make for both businesses and end-customers as we bring to life exceptional digital experiences.

Details on tech stack
- eCommerce Platforms
- Microservices integrations
- commercetools
- Amplience CMS
- Algolia Search
- Next.js storefront
- GCP Cloud Services

Min requirements to the candidate
- 5+ years as a Business Analyst working on platform software development and/or systems integration
- Experience with writing stories for technical solution or other high availability web-based applications
- Experience working with functional and non-functional requirements
- Familiarity with testing methodologies
- Superlative English interpersonal and communication skills, including polished presentation skills: you will regularly need to communicate effectively to a range of audiences
- Experience with Agile software development methodology, including user story creation
- Experience using JIRA, Confluence for requirements
- Experience creating roadmaps and working with tech teams to review storeis
- Seen as a trusted advisor by Clients

Nice to have requirements to the candidate
- Experience working with SAP Hybris or Commerce Tools or other eCommerce platforms
- Experience collaborating with remote/offshore development teams
- Experience working with retailers and in an eCommerce setting
- Knowledge of insights from web analytics
Interest in training on and learning eCommerce platform technology

Current team size, their locations and whether team is going to grow?
- The team will consist of 5 engineers, 1 QAs, 1 Scrum master, 2-3 BE Developers

What tasks the candidate will work with?
- Client facing business analysis
- Analyses of the Reporting solution requirements and creation of EPICS/User stories
- Business Process mapping
- Writing Epics, Stories
- Reviewing stories with tech leads
- Protecting scope creep in requirements
- Involved with estimating stories
- Using JIRA/ Confluence

Pluses:
- Fantastic client facing experience
- Working with top retail brand in the UK
- Work on a large project from the very initial Discovery through to go live - ability to shape scope and influence client decisions
- Become a key member of the team interfacing between the client product owners and the technical team to manage requirements
- Opportunity to deepen knowledge in eCommerce and integration story writing
- All Discoveries will be remote, within the UK timezone