Position: Senior Business Analyst
Company: Ciklum
Category: Business Analyst
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper
Published: 2020-06-01T00:00:00+03:00

**Description**
We have multiple teams developing parts of the combined solution: a business process management system, connectors for CMS and PIM systems, a web-based CAT tool, machine translation and NLP services.

Our team works on the core tools used for the translation process delivered as a set of micro services and we also own the public REST API. The team is located in the center of Kyiv, at the Gulliver BC. The team consists of 3 developers, a QA engineer and a product director. We do iterative development being close to our customers and releasing new features approximately every 3 weeks. We prefer direct communication over bureaucracy.

At LanguageWire we mostly use the Microsoft technology stack (we are three times Gold Microsoft partners), hosts most things on our own servers. A dedicated team of IT administrators and DevOps Engineers are responsible for the infrastructure. We are currently transitioning from a private cloud to a hybrid cloud strategy, leveraging containerization and infrastructure by code approach.

All platform development teams work according the “You build it, you run it” paradigm. We operate an enterprise class, highly available 24x7 platform. It’s the responsibility of each developer to make sure that the services run smoothly. Observable services and deep monitoring are key to make data driven decisions for the architecture and operations.

We are currently transitioning from a private cloud to a hybrid cloud strategy, leveraging containerization and infrastructure by code approach. Our core services handle huge amounts of documents and XML data, so it’s paramount to focus on performance  scalability of our services.

**Responsibilities**
‣ Be a mentor and main source of business knowledge for the team of developers
‣ Understand business requirements and create detailed specifications defining the functional and non-functional requirements
‣ Track ongoing functional and non-functional product requirements and be ready to explain their business context to the team
‣ Lead backlog grooming by explaining and, decomposing business ideas
‣ Be a connector between worlds of Business and product development, focusing on the customer point of view
‣ Support our UX / UI lead to create beautiful, effective user interfaces

**Requirements**
‣ 5+ years of experience in a similar position
‣ Skills in workflows and business processes
‣ Analytical mind
‣ Ability to structure and systemize informal knowledge
‣ Ability to understand clients’ requirements, problems, expectations on business level
‣ Practical knowledge of UML, e.g. Use Case diagrams, sequence diagrams etc.
‣ Deep experience the creation of structured software specification documents
‣ Capability to explain business requirement to the team of developers
‣ Diligence and carefulness with details
‣ Excellent spoken and written English
‣ Good knowledge of modern, agile software development methodologies

**Desirable**
‣ Working experience with UML tools like Visual Paradigm
‣ Experience as a software tester
‣ BSc degree or higher in Mathematics, Engineering and/or Computer Science

**What's in it for you**
‣ Open and friendly, but also demanding work atmosphere, where you have the opportunity to grow to become a rock star developer
‣ Enthusiastic, professional and skilled colleagues that help each other to reach common goals
‣ Short communication distance: you communicate and work directly with the client
‣ Knowledge sharing, training and self-development opportunities
‣ State of the art, cool, centrally located office with a warm atmosphere that creates really good working conditions