Technical Product Analyst

A Fortune 50 financial services company is seeking a highly motivated Technical Product Analyst for our client in the McLean, VA area.

Overview:

• To compile, research, analyze, and document data, requirements, work flow / processes, and functionality for respective ETS group.


• To develop and evaluate information and prepare recommendations.


• To partner with Technology Product Owner (TPO) in the creation, management, and maintenance of product boards and product backlogs.

Responsibilities:

• Clearly presents status and issues in a variety of oral and written formats and leads product meetings.


• Authors wide variety of user stories/features/product backlog items; provides critical feedback to other stories/features/backlog items.


• Liaise between product development team and business area.


• Conducts requirements analysis and validation, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards.


• Solves business problems by defining systems solutions via interviewing stakeholders, identifying and evaluating alternatives, and presenting findings.


• Manages medium-large projects/product lines either solo or as part of a team of Analysts.


• Recognizes and proactively raises issues or risks along with well-considered solutions.


• Elicits and documents functional and non-functional requirements using variety of techniques, including interviews, document analysis, storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and diagramming.


• Represents requirements using alternative views, such as epics/features/stories/product backlog items, models, diagrams, prototypes, or scenarios, to facilitate communication to the project / product team.


• Tracks and manages requirements status and changes throughout project / product lifecycle via board/backlog management and maintenance.


• Creates and communicates artifacts translating business needs into executable requirements.


• Contributes to department/branch process improvements.


• Manages multiple priorities independently and/or in a team environment to achieve goals via effective organizational, planning, and time management skills.


• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Possesses/maintains significant experience with Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio; artifacts and deliverable are polished and professional.


• Possesses/maintains significant experience with Microsoft ADO boards.


• Demonstrates and applies knowledge in IT solution creation and delivery to assigned project/product.


• Demonstrates competence in planning, organization, and multi-tasking.


• Service Now knowledge.


• Possesses/maintains solid skills with data querying, reporting, and analysis; comfortable recommending solutions to problems


• Possesses/maintains solid verbal and written communication skills


• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field, or the equivalent combination of training, education, and experience.

Desired:

• Certifications in MS Azure Cloud Fundamentals, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is helpful.