Product Analyst Senior

Our client, a Real Estate and Financial Services company, is looking for a Product Analyst Senior for their Mclean, VA location.

Responsibilities:

• Our Product Delivery Team collaborates with business partners and stakeholders to understand business and user needs, prioritize and scope releases, and design quality solutions that are simple, connected, and clear.
• Understand the needs of our customers and Client strategy to deliver value and efficiencies through automation.
• Streamline product value delivery, operations, and reduce risk while performing with a Modern Delivery approach.
• Coordinate across several successful product teams' deliverables to meet divisional objectives.
• Lead initiatives to analyze complex business/product problems to be solved with automated systems.
• Identify stakeholders and facilitate discussions or workshops to elicit and understand needs, requirements, and priorities.
• Understand data movement and have detailed knowledge of upstream/downstream systems and their interactions and dependencies.
• Work with teammates, including tech leads and architects, to clarify requirements and scope.
• Create interactive concept prototypes and mockups of tools/applications or features to help partners and clients visualize, interact, and react prior to actual development, as well as in each stage of development.
• Work with the product owner and the team to refine user stories, assist in prioritization, and plan upcoming development sprints.
• Execute change management-oriented responsibilities.
• Research and answer questions regarding system functionality, data movement, and processes.
• Perform process modeling and data analysis, including business process flows and procedures.
• Interact and connect with both business and technical personnel to tackle business challenges.
• Write user stories based on business and data-driven functionality as well as technical capabilities.
• Provide constructive support to both the Product Owner and IT team in product-related decisions.
• Encourage a customer-centric approach for the entire Modern Delivery team, consistently focusing on advancing Client mission.
• Support the team in the development process by defining technical requirements based on in-depth and breadth of product/business knowledge.
• Partner with the Team Development Lead to create project/process specifications.
• Conduct Modern Delivery ceremonies in a manner that helps the team improve the working process.

Requirements:

• This Technical Product Analyst position requires a minimum of 6+ years of professional experience.
• Candidates must have proven experience in data migration, integration, and modeling.
• Advanced querying skills using SQL and DB2 are essential, with a strong preference for experience with MongoDB.
• Knowledge of cloud service platforms is required, along with proficiency in Angular and familiarity with microservices architecture and API installation.
• Experience with Agile methodology is a must, as is expertise in automation testing and writing automation test scripts, particularly with Cypress.
• Additionally, candidates should have the ability to write technical user stories, daily stand up, demo sessions, deck preparation, and Agile ceremonies.
• Bachelor's degree in business or a related field and 5-7+ years of experience in mortgage/financial services.
• Previous Agile experience required, including participation in stand-ups, retrospectives, demos, and sprints.
• Proficiency in gathering project requirements and translating them into user stories with detailed acceptance criteria based on business-driven functionality and technical capabilities.
• Strong analytical and process design skills; ability to define data requirements and integration options.
• Ability to effectively communicate with business personnel to understand existing processes and define future processes.
• Experience collaborating with UX designers to build concept prototypes and mockups to drive development activities.
• Experience working with different collaborators to identify their needs and translate those needs into product capabilities.
• Working knowledge of JIRA, Confluence, and other Agile work management tools; knowledge of program management governance practices to support compliance with change standards.
• SQL knowledge, expertise in writing and executing queries.
• Knowledge of technologies supporting microservices, APIs, and databases, including DB2 and Postgres, is preferred.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to think creatively and design effective solutions.
• Ability to quickly comprehend and expertly articulate the underlying needs of stakeholders.
• Offers problem-solving support via personal knowledge and by asking effective probing questions.
• Proactively identifies conflicts and resolves them quickly.
• Recognizes roadblocks early and efficiently removes them.
• Communicates clearly and candidly with the team and leadership, including having difficult conversations.
• Works closely with relevant partners to remove barriers, including decision-making.
• Discovers ways to improve the team's way of working and influences changes proactively.
• Celebrates and promotes successful collaboration between team members.
• Builds open lines of communication between people and role models prompt, clear communication.
• Uses existing/builds new forums to champion cross-team collaboration.

Why Should You Apply?

• Health Benefits
• Referral Program
• Excellent growth and advancement opportunities