Crowe
Senior Business Analyst
Crowe, Grand Rapids, Michigan, us, 49528
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us!
Job Description:
Crowe is seeking atalented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individualwill assume a hybrid role(product owner/business analyst) on a Scrum team that is responsible forassisting in the development and maintenance of the Insight product that is leveraged by the Audit practice to deliver Crowe's Audit services. Primary responsibilities includeleading requirements elicitation, documentation, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadershipwithin an Agile Scrum team.
Responsibilities:
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from executive leadership to peers.
Collaborate with Product Manager, stakeholders, and development teams to understand business goals and objectives.
Ability to acquire a deep understanding of our products and systems, including their capabilities, features, and technical specifications.
Perform analysis of large-scale epics for decomposition and work closely with Program Leadership and teamsto ensure accurate scoping, feasibility assessment and effort estimation for epics and features.
Conduct refinement sessions to decompose features into user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria for the development team.
Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and elicitation sessions with the Product Manager and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and clarify requirements and/or issues.
Lead backlog management and refinement activitiesassisting in prioritizing and sequencingwork itemsbased upon business value and technical complexity.
Collaborate within the Scrum team and Program Leadership on progress, providing updates and identifying potential risks or issues that surface during development.
Develop and conduct product presentations and/ordemonstrations that effectively communicate the value, benefits, capabilities and features to various stakeholdersand development team members.
Partner with Development Lead to share Scrum Master responsibilities for the development team.
Perform as a change agent on identified Agile process improvements for the development team.
Perform change management activities in support of product releases.
Collaborate with the QA Lead to ensure effective coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing efforts.
Collaborate across development teams to manage dependencies and ensurerisks are proactively managed.
Work with the development team to demonstratework to the Product Managerand ensure itcomplies withthe Definition of Done (DoD).
Collaborate with cross-functionalteams, including operations to promptly identify and prioritize issues reported in a production environment to ensure timely resolution and minimize impacts on users.
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of BA and/or Product Owner experience
Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
Strong understanding of work decomposition techniques
Exceptional learning agility and the ability to adapt quickly
Proficient level of und
At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today's complex business issues. Crowe's accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a "Best Place to Work." We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us!
Job Description:
Crowe is seeking atalented and driven Senior Business Analyst in our Product Engineering practice. This individualwill assume a hybrid role(product owner/business analyst) on a Scrum team that is responsible forassisting in the development and maintenance of the Insight product that is leveraged by the Audit practice to deliver Crowe's Audit services. Primary responsibilities includeleading requirements elicitation, documentation, story creation, and refinement for the team. This individual should have a passion for continuous improvement, innovation, and a history of successful software delivery and leadershipwithin an Agile Scrum team.
Responsibilities:
Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization, from executive leadership to peers.
Collaborate with Product Manager, stakeholders, and development teams to understand business goals and objectives.
Ability to acquire a deep understanding of our products and systems, including their capabilities, features, and technical specifications.
Perform analysis of large-scale epics for decomposition and work closely with Program Leadership and teamsto ensure accurate scoping, feasibility assessment and effort estimation for epics and features.
Conduct refinement sessions to decompose features into user stories, tasks, and acceptance criteria for the development team.
Schedule, coordinate, and facilitate agile ceremonies and elicitation sessions with the Product Manager and stakeholders to identify, prioritize, and clarify requirements and/or issues.
Lead backlog management and refinement activitiesassisting in prioritizing and sequencingwork itemsbased upon business value and technical complexity.
Collaborate within the Scrum team and Program Leadership on progress, providing updates and identifying potential risks or issues that surface during development.
Develop and conduct product presentations and/ordemonstrations that effectively communicate the value, benefits, capabilities and features to various stakeholdersand development team members.
Partner with Development Lead to share Scrum Master responsibilities for the development team.
Perform as a change agent on identified Agile process improvements for the development team.
Perform change management activities in support of product releases.
Collaborate with the QA Lead to ensure effective coordination and execution of User Acceptance Testing efforts.
Collaborate across development teams to manage dependencies and ensurerisks are proactively managed.
Work with the development team to demonstratework to the Product Managerand ensure itcomplies withthe Definition of Done (DoD).
Collaborate with cross-functionalteams, including operations to promptly identify and prioritize issues reported in a production environment to ensure timely resolution and minimize impacts on users.
Required Qualifications:
5+ years of BA and/or Product Owner experience
Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills
Strong understanding of work decomposition techniques
Exceptional learning agility and the ability to adapt quickly
Proficient level of und