Luxoft is a global leader in high-end software development.
Luxoft is looking for talents with a passion for technology & ready to create original solutions. Once on board, you are invited to expand your knowledge & skills, offering you a continuous learning experience helping you stretch your potential.
So if you’re enthusiastic by the idea of accessing cutting edge technology & innovation to make an impact, why don't you join us?
- Requirement gathering, elicitation and documentation
- Collect, discuss, understand, document and keep up-to-date stakeholders' business requirements
- Convert business requirements into project planning artefacts - Epics, Stories, Tasks; form product development backlog
- Translate assumptions, technical design and limitations, risks into business terms and negotiate their impact with the stakeholders
- Lead planning sessions
- Prepare and review artefacts for the demo sessions, drive the demo preparations
- Manage requirements changes to ensure a full understanding of the impact on scope, schedule, quality, risks by all stakeholders
- Ensure all requirements are correctly represented in JIRA, Confluence and other collaboration tools
- Cooperate closely with the onsite team on projects preliminary analysis and high level estimation
- Mediate requirements clarification between business stakeholders and the project team
- Collaborate with other analysts to detect overlapping parts and achieve the synergy out of projects implemented jointly by multiple teams
- Suggest process improvements related to the team work planning, tracking, and ensuring the deliverables quality in close cooperation with Project and Delivery Managers
- Advanced spoken and written English
- Experience as a Business / System / Requirements Analyst: 3+ years
- Excellent communication skills, confidence in dealing with the stakeholders including senior management
- Superior analytical thinking
- Excellent organizational, administration and time management skills
- Familiarity with financial markets and products essential
- Understanding of testing methodologies
- Good understanding of Agile and RUP SDLC's
- Knowledge of Oracle at the level allowing data analysis
- Good SQL skills
- Teradata experience is desirable
- Quick learner with the desire to learn the domain and underlying business processes
- Experience working in a distributed / offshore team setup is a plus
Project Description:
A key client is going through a significant organizational realignment while also addressing substantive regulatory audit remediation commitments. One of the major outcomes of these activities is the creation of a centralized "Production Assurance" team to manage all Change Management, Quality Assurance and Production Services capabilities for the division to resolve key regulatory concerns and provide a structure to drive enhanced production quality and stability, improve effectiveness and efficiency, standardize process and technology, and provide effective governance and control. The key elements of the project include:
- Strategic planning, organizational design and transformation planning
- Program/Project management of deliverables against key regulatory remediation commitments
- Building of a centralized "Production Services" organization supporting all production applications for the division
o L1 Service Desk
o L2 Support
o Database Administration
- Process standardization and enhancement
The project will be very complex and has very tight timelines against aggressive regulatory remediation commitments that must be progressed while building a new organization.
The total size of the IT division is approximately 1000 people supporting 400+ applications. The application environments are critical for the client as they generate critical regulatory and business financial reporting. The Production Assurance team will be ~15% of the overall organization and will own Change Management, Quality Assurance and Production Services for the division.
Core Technologies:
- Teradata, DB2, Oracle, MS SQL
- SAP
- DataStage
- Lotus Notes Domino
- Mainframe, Unix, Linux, Wintel
The candidate is expected to provide his technology expertise to help strengthen the position of Luxoft as a strategic IT service supplier for the customer, with a range of services spanning from very complex and large-scale IT transformational initiatives to application support.