Position: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Grid Dynamics
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-10-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Requirements:**

- 5+ years as a systems analyst or functional equivalent for projects relating to custom software development and/or systems integration;
**- eCommerce business analysis experience is a must;**
- Experience working with functional and non-functional requirements;
- Experience with Object-Oriented design principles and multi-tier applications;
- Experience with user focus sessions;
- Experience with Agile software development methodology, including user story creation;
- Experience with building large eCommerce systems or other high availability web-based applications;
- Familiarity with testing methodologies;
- Understanding of data modeling, object modeling and OO design principles;
- Polished presentation skills;
- Listening, written, and verbal communication skills.

**Nice to have:**

- Experience working as a professional consultant. Bonus points if you’ve been the primary point of contact with clients; 
- Experience working with Hybris/SAP Commerce implementations;
- Experience in collaborating with remote/offshore development teams;
- Strong understanding of capabilities and limitations of programming languages, middleware solutions, application servers, and presentation layer tools is a plus, but not required;
- Experience developing test plans on the System, Unit, Integration, and Interface level;
- Agile Project Management experience and/or demonstration of desire to grow these skills;
- eCommerce business analysis experience, either within a consultancy or the online division of an established retailer.

**What tasks you will work with?**

- Act as the Subject Matter Expert in the eCommerce domain to facilitate workshops to understand current and future states to create high-quality user stories;
- Build a strong awareness of client needs and potential opportunities to expand project scope and further enhance business engagement;
- Develop artifacts to drive discussion during workshops to ensure that all business needs are captured in requirements;
- Manage the backlog during the implementation phase and guiding clients on scope creep and change management;
- Contribute during all phases of the development cycle (analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment);
- Working with Technical Lead to document, define and share detailed business requirements of critical and complex custom-designed, digital commerce applications that use a wide range of the very latest technologies;
- Function independently and within distributed teams;
- Be a project leader when one is needed, including playing the role of Agile Project Manager if required;
- Potential line management of local consultants and business analysts, depending on the nature of engagements.