For the given job description <<About Grainger
Grainger is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with a wide range of products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money.
We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working. We embrace new ways of thinking and recognize everyone is an individual. Find your way with Grainger today.
Position Details
The Engineering Business Analyst has the responsibility of being very deep in our technology project and product work and being a key team member who knows all aspects. The Engineering Business Analyst is aligned to challenging projects and brings high value insights to our engineering teams. The Engineering Business Analyst may be involved in multiple technology projects at a time and will need excellent technical skills to ensure projects are being completed on time and at the highest of quality. You will work with Grainger's software engineers and portfolio managers, with you main responsibility being writing stories to be implemented by the engineering team. The Engineering Business Analyst must have a blend of business and technical skills as they must understand the business cases and requirements and then help to analyze and solicit requirements. Using the requirements, you must make technical documentation and write stories for the engineering team to use. Throughout the lifecycle of a project, you may develop data models and process flows, facilitate implementation through training, update cost estimates and timelines, and assist with testing and change management. You will partner with multiple team members in different functions and levels during a project, including software engineering, portfolio management, quality, finance, product, and operations. Your role will have a focus on process improvement as well as diagnostics at the end of a project to ensure effectiveness. You will report to the Manager, Engineering Business Analysis.
You Will
Develop technical solutions to business problems by defining and documenting requirements.Write user stories and ensure integrity of stories across projects.Write and validate acceptance criteria within area of expertise. Groom and maintain user stories.Define and perform functional configurations.Complete impact analysis for complex projects and products.Facilitate requirements gathering sessions to aid partners in exposing and explaining their needs.Conduct industry and internal research and apply best practices to Grainger.Ensure decision-making by retrieving and aggregating data from multiple sources and compiling it into a clear and applicable format; Have an opinion as to what a correct decision is and influence the engineering team.Create artifacts and provide data-driven recommendations that are clear to your business and technology partners.Help lead tactical planning discussions.Develop scaled, automated, user-friendly systems, reports and dashboards to support our needs.
You Have
BABS in Business, Computer Science, Finance or related field5+ years of relevant work experience in a business analyst, data analyst or statistical analyst roleDeep technical expertise regarding IT systems, workflows, and data structuresExperience summarizing multiple types and sources of information into actionExperience working with senior business and technical partners; including experience pushing back respectfully to get projects completedExperience operating in an Agile context
Rewards And Benefits
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger
Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plansPaid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per yearAutomatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay periodEmployee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursementA comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs
DEI Statement
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.>> the resume: <<SummaryHighly motivated Sales Associate with extensive customer service and sales experience. Outgoing sales professional with track record of driving increased sales, improving buying experience and elevating company profile with target market.
Professional Experience05/2014toCurrentSoftware Engineer of IoT CloudBelvedere Trading–Boulder,CO,ChinaI work on the Salesforce IoT Cloud, a massively scalable event processing engine for realtime engagement and analytics.My main focus is that design and implement clusters provision and management for IoT cloud.1. Provision and manage AWS and Heroku resource, heavily involving Cloudformation, EC2, Auto-scaling and ELB, etc.2. Deploy micro-services, manage versioning, upgrading IoT platform properly, scale up and scale down micro-services when necessary. Micro-services that we support use Kafka, Storm, Spark, Cassandra, Kubernetes and so on.3. Find the best practice to store sensitive and critical information, for example, auth token, client secret.4. Customize platform when business needs dynamically, involving Jessicatabase migration, kafka migration, Cloudformation infrastructure upJessicate.We are now co-hosting workloads across 10K customers, batch transforming ~100MM rows of user Jessicata Jessicaily and real-time ingests 7 TB of events Jessicaily, ~80 MB/s sustained.02/2014to05/2014Software EngineerLocket–City,STATE,Locket is lock screen app that will display image, content based your interests. It was selected by Google as one of "Best apps of 2014".I was mainly focusing on backend development, including intelligent content generation and display.05/2013to08/2013Machine Learning Developer (Intern)British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)–City,STATE,1. Developed a face detection and recognition program in Java, implementing machine learning algorithms,e.g., eigenfaces (PCA) and fisherfaces (LJessica);2. Applied text mining techniques to subtitles to assist the facial identification of actors in TV programs;3. Achieved up to 98% accuracy rate on stanJessicard face Jessicatabases, e.g., ORL.
EducationExpected in2013totoMaster of Science:Computational Statistics & Machine LearningUniversity College London-London,GPA:Expected inJun 2010totoBachelor of Science:Electronic Commerce ComputingUniversity of Liverpool-Liverpool,GPA:
Technical SkillsProgramming: Java, Python, JavascriptBuilding tool: Gradle, MavenOps related: Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, BashOthers: AWS, Hibernate, Postgres>>. The result is, 

Fit assessment: Potential Fit