Saxon Global is hiring: Business Analyst in Hamtramck

Job Title : Business Analyst

Rate : $60/hr on C2C

Duration : 6+

Visa : No H1B (Need genuine candidate)

Location : Hybrid in Detroit Metropolitan Area. Need local

About the job

We are looking for a Business Analyst to design and develop product concepts and specifications that reflect the customer's needs aligning with technical and business requirements

• Plans and conducts customer research to gather data and discover problems through user and stakeholder interviews
• Validates researched data to bring leading indicators in focus, allowing the team to actively analyze, synthesize and determine valuable product/service options
• Iteratively hypothesizes and discovers new opportunities for the customer's needs/desires, aligning with business objectives and technical standards
• Seeks continuous feedback, emphasizing the importance of research-driven product decisions
• Engages with the Product Owner and team to prioritize and define product strategy and roadmaps
• Collaborate with vendors to design, develop, document, and maintain software prototypes
• Collaborate with external and internal technical peers (Product Managers, Product Designers, Software Engineers, Architects, and vendors) to design and validate technical approaches and designs
• Contribute to maintaining a readied backlog and enable the team to go further with effective usage of Rally/Jira
• Collaborates with Business Customers, Product Owners, Product Managers and document the Features, User Stories, Test Cases, etc.
• Utilize and advocate the use of agile methodologies to meet stakeholder requirements

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of gathering and analyzing requirements and designing software prototypes to support product development
• 2+ working experience years with cross-functional teams where you utilized good communication and collaboration skills
• You have produced research assets (journey maps, affinity walls, empathy maps, storyboards, personas, etc.) to capture learning and communicate the immersive customer experience with the team and other stakeholders
• Conveys design requirements and specification details to the team
• Ability to document detailed features and user stories with acceptance criteria
• Ability to create test cases including edge cases based on user stories

Skills Preferred:

• Ability to operate in an ambiguous environment with a curiosity towards new technologies and a strong desire to learn so that the team may benefit
• Understands design principles and tools
• Uses UI/UX design practices to advocate for the customer and help the team evolve the product
• Engages in and provides a design perspective for cross-product integrated experiences
• Ensures a cohesive design within product groups and platforms by adhering to the Design System running usability tests, creating open feedback forums, etc.
• Communicates how the design incorporates both customer and business value
• Experience with business domains Purchasing, MP&L, and Product Development will be considered a plus
• High degree of initiative, self-motivation, and ability to work autonomously
• Knowledge about API design standards, patterns, and best practices to create robustly and performing integrated systems
• Good team player and encourages team learning opportunities like Design Thinking
• Experience in cloud platforms like GCP, Azure, AWS

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of gathering and analyzing requirements and designing software prototypes to support product development
• 2+ working experience years with cross-functional teams where you utilized good communication and collaboration skills

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field