Position: Senior Business Analyst for Ciklum BA Office
Company: Ciklum
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

The full solution or product lifecycle is covered with Projects Management Office. We're looking for professionals, who're willing to work in BA Office within defined set of Ciklum professional standards and industry best practices for business analysis, product management, or both.

**Description**
Ciklum is looking for a motivated and proactive Senior Business Analyst to join our team in Kyiv on a full-time basis.

**Job Purpose:**
Identify root cause and frame the business problem, find out the optimal way to leverage market
opportunity, define the best solution from alternatives. Lead solution scope management to ensure that
final result covers Client business needs and Ciklum capabilities.

**Responsibilities**
Analyze capability gaps within Customer’s organization. Propose improvement methods and appropriate solution options.
Identify and define business needs and goals. Outline clearly stakeholders’ impact and their outlook on the project and teams.
Collaborate proactively with Business Stakeholders, Project Managers and Teams to reach a common understanding of the solution to address the needs. Manage requirements communication considering the project’s specifics and stakeholders’ preferences. Moderate meetings and workshops.
Manage solution scope, detect and track changes. Manage requirements related conflicts and issues up to resolution.
Prioritize requirements and manage their allocation. Define non-functional requirements including external interfaces and constraints.
Mentor other analysts on request. Organize knowledge sharing and training sessions for other analysts. Contribute to the corporate knowledge base.
Interact with product manager on product strategy definition.
Evaluate business analysis processes and give proposals for improvement. Establish and follow requirements lifecycle processes.
Monitor solution implementation and conduct internal and external solution acceptance.
Care about continuous improvement of Customer satisfaction.
Highly responsible work and tight schedule.
Simultaneous handling and fast processing of multiple tasks.
Often onsite visits to US.
**Requirements**
Education:

Master degree or higher (in Computer Science or similar, desirable).
Business education (desirable).
Specialized Knowledge:

Clear understanding of principles and specifics of software development methodologies.
 Extensive knowledge of business analysis activities and techniques.
Good knowledge in at least one Business Domain (desirable): finance, accounting, media, travel,
logistics.
Awareness of latest IT industry and digitalization trends.
Knowledge of business process optimization and modeling approaches.
Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence).
Knowledge of prototyping tools.
Skills & Abilities:

Knowledge of requirements management tools (at least JIRA & Confluence).
Strong English verbal and written communication skills.
Strong analytical skills to make a critical assessment of the information from numerous sources.
Systems thinking and functional decomposition skills.
Setting clear goals and priorities. Time-management, ability to handle multi-tasking activities. Quick learning.
High flexibility. Ability to modify approach as per changing conditions, circumstances and feedback.
Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
Self-confidence and ability to handle rejection and accept criticism.
Modeling skills to represent requirements information in graphical form.
Professional Certification:

One of the following (desirable): IIBA CCBA or CBAP, OMG UML, OMG BPMN.
Experience:

IT experience 3 years (4+ desirable).
Experience in business analysis 2 years (3+ desirable).
Proven experience in communication and presentation for large audiences and top management.
Experience in training development and conduction (desirable).
**What's in it for you**
 Learn from the team of Lead/Senior professionals and BA community.
Close collaboration with client from pre-sales to implementation.
Improve competence with constant flow of new projects.
Low bureaucracy, European management style.
Collaborate with local and international teams.
 Flexible working hours, English classes, Great office space.