Senior IT Business Analyst in Constanţa

Agile (regular) Business Analysis (advanced) Defining requirements (advanced) User Stories (advanced) Project Overview:Kainos’ customer is a FinTech start up with heavy backing, both financially and from across their target industry. Their vision is to build an on-demand service to replace an old and ineffective system which their target market all has deployed on premises. The core functionality will be commercial software, similar to that currently deployed on premises.Kainos are building all of the surrounding services: infrastructure as code, message handling, data handling and persistence, analytics, operations, orchestration, integration with customers, and a whole lot more!This is Kainos’ largest commercial sector project – and will really put us on the map: multi-million Euro deal, multiple years of ongoing development and service. A chance to be build something that changes an industry.Your roleAs a Senior Business Analyst in Kainos, you will be responsible for ensuring that your team has a good understanding of business needs so that our customer solutions meet the needs of them and their users. You will be responsible for articulating problems and processes in ways understood by all stakeholders - both business and technical, and for facilitating the analysis and design of cost-effective software solutions that impact users worldwide.Requirements:Extensive experience in a relevant commercial or technical environment.Broad business and technology understanding and a proven awareness of industry trends.Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team.Proficient in stakeholder management, sensitive to the needs of each stakeholder yet comfortable to challenge where appropriate.Excellent user story creation skills, articulating the business needs in a format that is easily consumable by the scrum team (2 years, backlog management, refinement sessions, customers pre-sales, requirements, and priorities and value) talk to end users.Strong business process modeling skills, capturing existing processes, designing new processes and presenting processes to achieve buy-in.Competent facilitator of small groups to achieve focused outcomes. (dev teams, product approval committee, delivery manager.Highly effective at translating business requirements into cost-effective functional requirements.Good commercial awareness, always delivering within project constraints.A strong understanding of Agile and Waterfall Project Management delivery methodologies.Able to work flexibly and to tight deadlines.We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial.Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate with a variety of stakeholders.Desirable:Experience of software development or related problem-solving discipline.Experience of working on client site, delivering high quality digital products.Stakeholder management experience.We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in managing, mentoring and coaching members of your team and wider community is important.Experience mentoring customer Consultant on good story writing techniquesAgile and waterfall project experience across a range of methodologies (across a range of methodologies and frameworks (e.g. waterfall, scrum, Kanban, etc.).Active participant in communities of interest (e.g. online groups, speaking at conferences etc.).Benefits:Company share scheme plan.Private medical insurance at Medicover.Multisport card.Group life insurance.3000 Pounds for refer-a-friend scheme.Reimbursement of the costs of purchasing a chair and desk to be used in the home office.Access to Pluralsight online training.Core hours (starting work between 8 am and 10 am).