Assignment Description

Our client in the automotive industry is looking for a Business Analyst.

You’ll be working in the cluster Quality & Compliance (Q&C) at Engineering Digital,  in the Planning & Issue Management (P&IM) Team.
This team is working with enabling backlog management, team collaboration and planning in the organization with digital tools and solutions. The team is using a wide array of technologies and platforms and the stakeholders are spread out both internally within the organization and externally at their partners. The team is responsible for many collaboration tools at the company such as Jira (VIRA), Confluence and Planisware.

The cluster consist of 5 different products where product owners, solution architects and teams work alongside in an agile way to deliver value to the products that are aligned to the architectural runway.

What you’ll do:
As a Business Analyst you will enable product success by working as a liaison among different stakeholders to understand the customer benefits and needs, and by supporting backlog refinement in accordance with the Product Owner’s and the team’s agenda.

Your responsibilities will be to facilitate a grounded way of working with focus on business value and excellent user experience.
You will also support the product owner in the exploration phase of the new capabilities coming in from stakeholders or architects. You will analyze and break down business needs, including impact mapping and dependency analysis. To achieve this, you will need to work closely with the product owner and the team to support the products growth from the team’s vision and in line with the architect’s runway. Essentially, making sure the capabilities are well understood before they are ready for the next increment.
Technical knowledge and hands-on experience of the different tools being used is great for this role.

Who you are:

Requirements, knowledge & skills

• Agile mindset, Scrum, and writing epics, features, and stories in an effective format.
• Ability to pinpoint value creating activities in relation to a vision.
• Servant leadership in complex situations to achieve great, holistic results.
• Analytical Skills – Ability to conceptualize and visualize gathered information in a structured and pedagogic way.
• Critical thinking and problem solving – Ability to evaluate and examine a situation from different parties’ perspectives so that everyone involved understands and then holistically create a base for decision making.
• Ability to understand customer/end user needs and then convey them into backlog items that enables the team delivery. Experience in UX Process and User journeys are crucial.
• Capability to define the business value of the product area value and surrounding value streams.
• Collaboration, facilitation, and delegation skills to involve and engage stakeholders and team members to create ownership and gain results.
• Experience in information handling and information security / Cyber security is meritorious.
• Experience of the following tools:
  – Atlassian Jira
  – Atlassian Confluence
  – Planisware