Position: Senior Business Analyst / Product Owner / Project Manager
Company: Grid Dynamics
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent
Published: 2022-09-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Project description**
Data pipelines migration from Teradata to HDFS. 
The work includes:
- AWS migration
- Brand new features development

**Client description**
The client is an American multinational technology company that specializes in consumer electronics, software, and online services headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. 

**Details on the tech stack**
Scala, BigData, AWS

**Requirements**
- Excellent communication
- Understanding how to collect priorities for projects and push them forward without being the direct manager - i.e. get people into meetings, ensure priorities are set, timelines defined, and teams are unblocked if dependent on other teams
- Be able to dig beyond the first line of questions - what is the business motivation
- Project management experience
- Willing and able to learn new technologies quickly
- Some technical background or proof of technical competence (discuss tool advantages, understand software lifecycle and process)

**Nice to have requirements**
- Ideally technical background in Big Data 

**Team**
3 engineers from the client side, 5 from ours. Time overlap is expected up to 1-2 PM PDT.

**Tasks**
- Program management of defined projects - overall responsible for ensuring clarity in project status, priority, and estimated delivery
- Define task prioritization and inform all relevant parties
- Create and maintain timelines
- Set expectations regarding timelines based on team capabilities and availability
- Unblocking teams (technical/external dependencies) by reaching out to relevant parties 
- Create roadmaps
- Track daily status
- Present progress and overall status to directors and key stakeholders
- Reporting of business needs