EXPERIENCED ROLES

Job Description

Job Purpose: To work with customer’s business units to understand, analyze and document the existing business models, requirements and targeted changes.

Reporting to: Report on a daily basis to the Project Managers in India. Dotted line management to MD Ireland.

Key Responsibilities:

Provide end to end recruitment services including:

• Work with customer’s business units to collect and collate the business requirements.
• Provide critical analysis of user business requirements and translate this analysis into technical specifications and scope of works for application / product / solution design and development.
• Preparation of Response to RFPs, Proposals, concept papers, etc.
• Perform gap analysis and assist technical teams in transforming gaps and other requirements into the technical requirements. Track functional gaps and ensure follow-up with client and technical team until closure.
• Review test scenarios developed by the development/testing teams. Participate in functional testing for critical functionalities requiring business knowledge
• Act as a primary liaison interface between client and technical teams for business clarifications and analyze and manage change requests
• Participate in project planning activity

The following would be supplementary responsibilities that would be required to be taken up on a need basis

• Marketing Strategy, new technology/ market opportunity identification, Preparation of approach note and Marketing Collateral
• Lead generation through marketing campaigns and other marketing tools
• Prospective client research, first pitch presentations
• Opportunities for up-selling and cross selling through account planning, newsletters etc.
• Identifying partnership opportunities and managing partnerships

Person Specification

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering with exposure to software systems preferred
• 4+ years work experience preferably in a growing and global technology company
• Proven experience of playing the role of BA in at least two large fixed bid custom application development project would be an added advantage.

Personal / Business Skills

• Candidate should possess a dynamic and self-motivating personality to work in a team environment and successfully deliver on all deadlines and execution in a very fast-paced environment
• Possess very sound communication skills capable of explaining technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Extensive documentation experience in preparing requirements documents, functional test cases, training materials etc
• Proven organisational skills with attention to detail and the ability to prioritise and work well in an environment with competing demands.
• Possess excellent analytical skills and ability to anticipate issues and formulate remedial actions. Capability to understand Client, technical team psychology and change interaction approach
• Possess very sound team building, mentoring and interpersonal skills and ability to resolve conflicts
• Adapt and adhere to company standards and culture  
• Flexibility to travel for short durations when required.
• Working experience in with onsite offshore model of operations where the candidate has handled onsite requirements gathering and analysis sessions with business users (Traveled onsite) is preferred.
• Experience in managing small to medium size projects is preferable. Working experience in requirement gathering using industry standard methodologies
• Project management skills
• Customer focused with strong commercial acumen
• Capable of working in an international environment and open to diverse work culture and practices.

Technical Skills

• Experience in using tools like design tools, Visio, MS-Project, MS-Office etc
• Sound knowledge of relational data bases and SQL
• Knowledge of estimation methodologies such as Function point analysis, COCOMO etc