Business Systems Analyst - Freelance

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce. They are seeking an experienced Business Systems Analyst - Freelance who can understand clients’ needs and translate them into user stories and acceptance criteria, facilitating communication between stakeholders and agile teams.

Responsibilities:

• Business Systems Analysis - Work with client product owners and stakeholders to efficiently, clearly and concisely document:
• Functional, and non-functional requirements (user stories). Non-functional requirements include, but not limited to: Security, scalability, performance, SEO, and accessibility
• Coordinate story mapping or other requirements gathering sessions
• Serve as client proxy for agile teams
• Work with client product owner to set priority, build roadmaps, and facilitate working sessions
• Requirements Analysis - Work with agile teams to groom and refine user stories and acceptance criteria to meet the agile team’s definition of ready
• Decompose or combine stories to support effective execution
• Ability to communicate technical domain specific information to non-technical peers
• Team Leadership - Facilitate understanding of clients’ environment to properly set up project teams, identify needed documentation, and setup status reporting
• Manages progress and identifies risks, issues and gaps that could impact timelines, and goals of services
• Removes impediments from the working delivery team
• Manages resourcing based on project needs
• Provides necessary external status reporting to clients as needed
• Collaborate with agile team and leadership to produce estimates and timelines for various possible solutions
• Facilitate team stand ups and sprint planning sessions
• Proactively identifies dependencies and issues between teams and facilitates resolution
• Quickly learn the basics of a given industry as needed to support client work
• Adhere to and evangelize VML standard processes, tools and guidelines
• Quality - Perform desk checks and ad hoc testing before, during, and after quality assurance and user acceptance testing occurs
• Perform regular post-production deployment checks

Requirements:

• At least 3-5 years as a Business Systems Analyst with experience in technical analysis, project management, technical, and/or business experience
• Demonstrated understanding of Agile software development methodologies
• Understanding of functional requirements, non-functional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Proven ability to break down and simplify complex problems and systems into smaller and more consumable components
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to resolve conflict with productive outcomes
• Ability to coach others and grow team capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to be proactive, adaptable, and flexible
• Proven ability to operate under tight deadline with complex business/technical solutions
• Ability to work across multiple projects
• Ability to manage workload without supervision
• Experience creating functional requirements, non-functional requirements and technical documentation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated success leading Agile software development initiatives
• Experience with at least one application lifecycle management solution. Working knowledge of JIRA and Confluence, preferred