Title: Technical Data Analyst
Duration: 12 months with plans to extend
Location: Full-time on-site M-F in Mclean
Our Impact:
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.
" We understand the needs of our customers and client strategy to deliver value and efficiencies through automation. We streamline product value delivery, operations, and reduce risk while performing with a Modern Delivery approach. We coordinate across several successful product teams' deliverables to meet divisional objectives.
Your Impact:
" 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 s 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.
Qualifications:
" 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.
Key to Success in this Role:
" 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.
EEO
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.