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: <<Professional SummaryHighly skilled software development professional bringing more than 4 years in software design, development and integration.
 Offering advanced knowledge of cloud components, data ingestion, and Java/Python/JavaScript programming languages.
SkillsPython, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript;Application Frameworks: GCP BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Apache Beam, k8s, Stackdriver, Grafana, Tableau, Sumo Logic, DataDog, New Relic, Apigee, Angular, Node.js, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS,JPA, Maven, Tomcat, Hibernate, Express, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, RESTful API, Nginx, TensorFlow, NLP,React, Git, Apache Bench, PostmanApacheAPICookingCSSDatabaseDebuggingDeliveryEngineerETLFunctionalGCPHTMLJavaJavaScriptLeadershipLogicDirectorMarketMongoDBMVCNLPOSSPostgreSQLPricingProgrammingProgressPythonQualityExpressReal-timeSoftware developersTableauTablesTomcatWorkshops
Work HistorySoftware Developer,12/2018-CurrentMaxar Technologies Ltd–Reston,VA,Designed and deployed the first data ingestion pipeline on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) by using Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud
 Dataflow, Cloud DataPrep, BigQuery, and Stackdriver to collect, store and monitor event data streaming; The ingestion
 pipeline helps data scientist team on collecting the order level data/events, IoT devices status without touching production
 database and support real-time data collecting
 Designed and implemented ingestion service and schemas store by using TypeScript; The ingestion service and schemas
 store helped the entire team automatic generating unpacking pipeline and secondary table for all internal consumers
 Designed and implemented JavaScript SDK & ingest URL to publish events from backend service, IoT devices, and 3rd
 party service; Using JWT token as Authorization, Apigee as API key management tool
 Collaborated with data scientists team to collect requirements of demand prediction models and delivered ETL tables by
 using BigQuery Apache Beam(dataflow) and Cloud Dataprep; Supported 2 data scientist/engineer team, 4 ML models
 including order preparation, dynamic pricing, etc
 Implemented KPI dashboards for cross-functional leadership to monitor data growth weekly and for 4-5 teams of data
 scientists to monitor data ingestion and data quality daily.Used Tableau and Grafana to build data models and visualize data
 hosting millions of daily data entries
 Led a team of 4 software developers to collect user requirements from the factory operations team, translated the business to
 technology need to the services team and ensured consensus, spearheaded the build of Grafana dashboard to track time-series
 metrics from IoT device.The dashboard was used by the factory team to monitor progress and by the cross-functional data
 scientist team to build on models
 Built IoT device alerting and monitoring system prototypes by ingesting data, customizing Apache Beam job to run and
 normalize data, and created real-time alerting functions with zero delay; collaborated with 2 PMs to understand user
 requirements, owned the end-to-end prototype build in 2 weeks, demoed in front of 10+ director-level board members
 Decoupled and migrated the monolithic backend service to microservices by using Node.js, RESTful API
 Designed and implemented the Market microservice and database to support food cooking and delivery service by using
 PostgreSQL, Knex, RESTful API, Express.js, and Typescript
 Onboarded 100+ incoming software developers nationwide; revamped and expanded knowledge transfer document,
 conducted workshops and 1:1s to help new joiners set up and understand environments, owned debugging and answered
 questions.Programmer,03/2016-12/2018New Jersey Institute Of Technology–Newark,NJ,Designed and implemented an Auto-Test-System(ATS): handle the entire process including design, development,
 implementation, and integration
 Designed test packages (data checker, autographing tool, auto-input-data-file module, testing interface, and results checker)
 based on different standard requirements, ensure accuracy and sustainability of test results.
EducationMaster of Science:,Expected in05/2014-Syracuse University-Syracuse,NYGPA:Status-Bachelor of Science:Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies,Expected in07/2011-Inner Mongolia University of Science & Technology-,GPA:Status-
SkillsPython, Java, HTML, CSS, JavaScript;AApplication Frameworks: GCP BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Apache Beam, k8s, Stackdriver, Grafana, Tableau, Sumo Logic, DataDDog, New Relic, Apigee, Angular, Node.js, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Spring Data, Spring Cloud, Netflix OSS,JJPA, Maven, Tomcat, Hibernate, Express, Redis, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, RESTful API, Nginx, TensorFlow, NLP,RReact, Git, Apache Bench, Postman,Apache, API, cooking, CSS, database, debugging, delivery, engineer, ETL, functional, GCP, HTML, Java, JavaScript, leadership, Logic, director, Market, MongoDB, MVC, NLP, OSS, PostgreSQL, pricing, Programming, progress, Python, quality, Express, real-time, software developers, Tableau, tables, Tomcat, workshops>>. The result is, 

Fit assessment: Good Fit