If you’re a talented and experienced Agile Business Analyst who enjoys working hard, on your own terms, then you may have found your new home!
ABOUT US:
- We power Psychology Today’s Directory – the world’s largest directory for mental health professionals.
- We connect millions of people seeking help with the right Therapist.
- We’re entrepreneurial, nimble, and quirky, but unlike a start-up – we’re a secure place to work.
- We generate revenue, have a proven track record, and an authoritative 50 year old brand.
- We’re a friendly group of doers, freethinkers and problem solvers.
- This is an opportunity to be yourself, be inspired, and do fulfilling and challenging work from home.
STILL CURIOUS:
- Search Google for a “Therapist” in your City or Zip, and you’ll find Psychology Today’s Directory at the top of the organic search results.
DAY IN THE LIFE:
We work in a collaborative environment and although our team is geographically separated in the US and Canada, we work very closely together in a shared code environment. Although we communicate continuously, you should be able to work independently without supervision to meet deadlines.
Requirements
The Agile Business Analyst acts as a liaison between business and technical groups, gathering and documenting business requirements, designing business processes, developing high level application designs, and partnering with technical teams on technical specification.
- BA/BS degree in CS or equivalent experience
- 3+ years experience working in agile software development
- Demonstrated ability to negotiate, plan, and prioritize while working in a fast paced, ambitious and event driven environment
- Work with product owner to implement product vision as elicited from business stakeholders.
- Supports a product owner by helping them analyze the business domain, stocking the product backlog, and grooming the product backlog.
- Participate in development efforts from inception to production delivery using an agile methodology.
- Excellent documentation skills including familiarity with requirements techniques such as user stories, use cases, data flows, wireframes and informal modeling.
- Work with development team to identify and document workflows, architecture and processes.
- Strong technical knowledge of back-end application and system technologies, including database, middle-tier and user interface layers
- Define and document requirements; Analyze and prioritize requirements
- Ability to see tasks through to completion without significant guidance
- Strong analytical and diagnostic skills
- Understand the business needs and make critical design decisions and direct the same with other team members
- Provide agile coaching and mentorship in partnership with scrum master and product owner to the team.
- Experience working with continuous delivery and continuous integration, with frequent deployments to production.
- Effectively work with remote teams
Benefits
- Highly competitive salaries
- No politics: just a collaborative, focused, energetic, work environment that encourages creative solutions
- A virtual office: freedom and independence to work from anywhere
- An awesome, talented team of friendly people