Senior Business Analyst Hoofddorp, Netherlands

Responsibilities

• We are seeking a talented, standout Senior Business Analyst with a minimum of 5 years’ experience working on IT projects as a Business Analyst. You must be able to:
  • Understand the requirements from the customer product team
  • Working in a team of 5-7 business analysts, taking ownership of several functional areas of the product
  • Work with Product Managers and country stakeholders to define, evaluate and document country requirements, identify the business problem or need, feature goals and KPIs
  • Balance the specific requirements/constraints each country may have for the feature, come up with adequate flexible central solution
  • Drive the process to elaborate design solution together with UX & VD team, deliver the detailed requirements and specifications
  • Present the feature ask to the architecture and development teams, adjust and improve the requirements following the feasibility feedback, ensuring best effort/value ratio is achieved
  • Support the requirements during the delivery cycle, clarify and address issues and questions in collaboration with product, UX, VD and technology teams; validate the eventual implementation
  • Act as central point of contact for the features in dedicated areas for all internal and external stakeholders
  • Identify and document the as-is and to-be, and define a road map of how best to move from the current to future state
  • Identify, document, analyze and improve business and system processes, and user journeys
  • Organize and drive the identification, prioritization, documentation, communication of - and commitment to - business requirements throughout the project lifecycle, using a variety of recognized techniques and tools
  • Facilitate the development of business requirements through discussions, workshops, interviews, observation, GAP analyses and other appropriate methods and techniques
  • Utilize a variety of methods to best document and communicate requirements, including wireframes, user stories, use cases and specifications
  • Manage requirements throughout the project lifecycle, using a variety of methods including Agile product backlogs: Vision, Epics, Stories, Use Cases
  • Proactively co-ordinate focus and activity to ensure the client’s requirements are met through delivery
  • Review, assess and advise on project changes, especially when they impact agreed scope or requirements
  • Develop accurate and complete user and business acceptance test plans, and test scenarios and scripts; and manage and facilitate UAT execution

Requirements

• The ideal candidate:
  • Is knowledgeable about IT-enabled change and is delivery-focused
  • Must have extensive experience of the Business Analyst role across all stages of the project lifecycle, in both Agile and Waterfall environments
  • Must demonstrable expertise in a variety of pan-lifecycle business analysis methods and techniques
  • Whilst able to draw on vast experience if traditional analysis techniques and tools, should be able to innovate when called for – always ensuring that the analysis approach, methods and deliverables are adapted to - and suitable for - the scenario in-hand
  • Utilize tracking tools such as JIRA, TFS or Rally
  • Basic wireframes/mockup skills including modeling tools experience: Balsamiq
  • Modeling skills – business process diagrams (BPMN/UML) including modeling tools experience: Enterprise Architect, Visio

We offer

• Competitive Compensation
• 26 paid holiday days
• Commuting to work- costs reimbursement
• Pension Plan scheme
• Discretionary Performance Based bonus
• Laptop + Corporate Simcard + Corporate Mobile Device (subject to certain eligibility requirements)
• Annual Salary Review
• Trainings, Internal Education and Dutch Language Courses
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Relocation Package
• Regular Corporate and Social Events
• The opportunity to be part of a diverse and multicultural company
• EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) (subject to certain eligibility requirements)
• Certain benefits and perks may be subject to eligibility requirements