For the given job description <<Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to todays complex business issues. Crowes accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a Best Place to Work. We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us!
Job Description:
Crowe is seeking a talented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individual will assume a business analyst role on a Scrum team that is responsible for assisting in the development and maintenance of the Ignite data analytics product that is leveraged by the Audit practice to deliver Crowes Audit services. Primary responsibilities include leading requirements elicitation with key stakeholders, documentation, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadership within an Agile Scrum team.
Responsibilities:
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from executive leadership to peers. Collaborate with Product Owner, stakeholders, and development teams to understand business goals and objectives. Ability to acquire a deep understanding of our products and systems, including their capabilities, features, and technical specifications. Perform analysis of large-scale epics for decomposition and work closely with Program Leadership and teams to ensure accurate scoping, feasibility assessment and effort estimation for epics and features. Conduct refinement sessions to decompose features into user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria for the development team. Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and elicitation sessions with the Product Owner and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and clarify requirements andor issues. Lead backlog management and refinement activities assisting in prioritizing and sequencing work items based upon business value and technical complexity. Collaborate within the Scrum team and Program Leadership on progress, providing updates and identifying potential risks or issues that surface during development. Develop and conduct product presentations andor demonstrations that effectively communicate the value, benefits, capabilities and features to various stakeholders and development team members. Partner with Development Lead to share Scrum Master responsibilities for the development team. Perform as a change agent on identified Agile process improvements for the development team. Perform change management activities in support of product releases. Collaborate with the QA Lead to ensure effective coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing efforts. Collaborate across development teams to manage dependencies and ensure risks are proactively managed. Work with the development team to demonstrate work to the Product Manager and ensure it complies with the Definition of Done (DoD). Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including operations to promptly identify and prioritize issues reported in a production environment to ensure timely resolution and minimize impacts on users. 
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of BAExcellent analytical and critical thinking skillsStrong understanding of work requirement solicitation and decomposition techniquesExceptional learning agility and the ability to adapt quicklyAbility grasp business concepts and translate those to the development teamProficient level of understanding of Product Development and Software Development Life CyclesSolid experience with Agile Scrum methodologyExcellent communication skills, both verbal and written with the ability to effectively convey business and technical information to diverse audiences Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and effectively with diverse stakeholders and team members as a part of a larger program fostering strong relationships and driving resultsProactive, self-starter, with a natural inclination toward taking individual initiative and personal accountabilityHigh degree of organization and the ability to manage multiple tasks effectively
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar toolProduct Owner andor Scrum Master certificationExperience with SharePoint  Microsoft 365  Power BIExperience with Data Driven or Data Heavy ProductsIndustry experience in professional services, finance, or accounting
About the Team: 
Product Engineering professionals at Crowe lead the software development efforts for the firm and build technology solutions in a consistent and reliable way. Product Engineering owns the software development competency for the firm, which is tied to standardized processes, practices, policies and controls for client-facing products and projects. Team members share expertise across various industries, targeting manufacturing and distribution, government, healthcare, financial services, and private equity groups based on demand from other Business Units. You will learn and build on a wide range of technologies in an environment where innovation and new ideas are highly encouraged. Hop on board to join one of the fastest growing technology consulting practices in the industry.
Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Crowe LLP does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.>> the resume: <<Professional SummaryEnergetic Data Engineer in developing robust code for high-volume businesses. Strong decision-maker with 6 years of experience in Data engineering and help firms in designing and executing solutions for complex business problems involving large scale data warehousing, real-time analytics and reporting solutions. Ability to translate business questions and concerns into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using sound methodologies.
SkillsPython 3.x, R, SQLHadoop, Apache SparkHive, Pig, Kafka, Sqoop, OozieTeradata, SnowflakeAmazon S3,EMR,LambdaGit, Jenkins, SplunkMS OfficeMicrosoft Visual C#.NET
EducationThe University Of Texas At DallasRichardson,TXExpected in4 2020––Master of Science:Business Analytics-GPA:
Work HistoryAvanade-Data EngineerBangor,ME,04/2020-CurrentCombining data from multiple source systems (Profile, Systematics, etc..) and multiple platforms (Snowflake, OneLake, Hubs) and computing canonical gold-star metrics “once and for all” to cut operational costs.Develop Spark jobs to transform data and apply business transformation rules to load/process data across enterprise and application specific layers.Experience in building/operating/maintaining fault tolerant and scalable data processing integrations using AWS.Configured S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data based on requirement.Good working experience on submitting the Spark jobs which shows the metrics of the data which is used for Data Quality Checking.Working on building efficient data pipelines that transform high volume data into a format used for analytical, fraud prevention and ML use cases.Extensively used Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) queries, Reports, Alerts and Dashboards.Excellent knowledge of source control management concepts such as Branching, Merging, Labeling/Tagging and Integration, with tool like Git.Performing Data Quality checks like row count, schema validation, Hash key validation for all data movement between applications.Avanade-Data EngineerBurlington,NC,08/2019-04/2020Responsible for designing and developing various analytical solutions for gaining analytical insights into large data sets by ingesting and transforming these datasets in the Big Data environment using technologies like Spark, Sqoop, Oozie, HIVE.Scheduling jobs to automate the process for regular executing jobs worked on using Oozie.Developed Oozie workflow schedulers to run multiple Hive and Pig jobs that run independently with time and data availability.Familiar with data architecture including data ingestion pipeline design, Hadoop information architecture, data modeling and data mining,machine learning and advanced data processing.All the projects which I have worked for are Open Source Projects and has been tracked using JIRA.Parallel copying of files between various clusters using Distcp, Kafka in Hadoop.Ascend Learning-Data Scientist InternMemphis,TN,09/2018-12/2018Acquire, clean, integrate, analyze and interpret disparate datasets using a variety of statistical data analysis and data visualization methodologies, reporting and authoring findings where appropriate.Developed Linear Mixed Effects Models for Boston Ed-fi dataset to estimate the teacher contribution to the student test scores.Random intercept model which utilized a pre-post-test design and included fixed effects for student demographics and a growth model where students were nested by time (random slope and intercept) and teacher was tested.Generated various Clustering models for entire West Virginia department of education and evaluated cluster’s performance.Verizon-Big Data Engineer,,01/2014-07/2017Identify customer's digital analytical needs and engage with customer and principal architects daily, understand the business requirements for big data analytical solutions and break down large scale requirements into detailed system specifications.Moving data to HDFS framework using SQOOP from Teradata, SQL Server.Good working experience on Hadoop tools related to Data warehousing like Hive, Pig and also involved in extracting the data from these tools on to the cluster using Sqoop.Solved performance issues in Hive with understanding of joins, groups, bucketing, partitions and working on them using HiveQL.Deployed programs written in PySpark to run Spark MLlib, for analytics and reduced customers churn rate by 25%.
SkillsPython 3.x, R, SQLHadoop, Apache SparkHive, Pig, Kafka, Sqoop, OozieTeradata, SnowflakeAmazon S3,EMR,LambdaGit, Jenkins, SplunkMS OfficeMicrosoft Visual C#.NET>>. The result is, Good Fit

Fit assessment: Good Fit