Vacancy Overview

Our Client is an Irish owned organisation with offices in Ireland, UK and the US. They are currently in the process of expanding their recently opened Galway office and have a requirement for a strong technical individual to fill a Business Analyst role.This position will work closely with the Project Managers and Sales Account Managers, to consult with potential customers in order to ascertain their business requirements for bespoke software solutions on technology and platforms as varied as iPhone/Android, ASP. NET, MVC, Web Services, Azure, JQuery, JavaScript, Java, SQL Server, WinForms and the entire Windows technology stack. The Senior Business Analyst Manager will be responsible for building and managing a team of Business Analysts that will provide the front-line system specifciation activity for a rapidly growing team of software developers. 

Opportunity

The role offers the successful candidate an excellent opportunity to interact with many and varied software projects and to advance their career within a successful and expanding bespoke software development organisation. The role will involve liaising directly with clients in the USA as well as Ireland and the UK with infrequent travel required to visit these clients on-site.The ideal person should be primarily interested in the business-process element of software project specification and will possess sufficient technical knowledge of software development in order to support the estimation of software development projects.

Main Responsibilities of the Business Analyst:

• Consult with the customer and based on their requirements, to generate specification document(s) which the customer can understand and approve for development. This document can then be used by the developers to work from.
• Translating high-level customer requirements into detailed functional specifications and application architecture.
• Knowledge of Agile estimation techniques along with Waterfall estimation and specification would be a major advantage to the candidate
• Research, identify, test, and select technology products required for solution delivery.
• Clarifying requirements and responding to issues.
• Supporting the development team in clarifying requirements during the development lifecycle.
• Estimating work effort with no guidance.
• Clearly communicating in all formats including email, phone, word documents and in person.
• Communicating in writing or in a presentation complex technical issues to clients in a manner understandable by business users.
• Participating in the sales process as a Technical Specialist presenting to customers a broad scope of technologies and implementations of these technologies.
• Maintaining a high-level understanding of development tools, techniques and technologies and partaking in project post mortems to monitor and continuously improve estimation accuracy.
• The role is intensively people-facing, so the candidate must be confident and comfortable in dealing with personnel at all levels and possess well developed communication and presentation skills.

Experience Required:

• Being responsible for functional specifications, process mapping, database design, documentation of user roles, interface specifications, development and execution of test plans and UAT plans.
• Structured analysis techniques and data modelling.
• Experience in project management and delivering within costs and schedule.
• Proven ability to read, analyse, and interpret complex documents and to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints from customers.
• Proven ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong development background is a significant advantage (5+ years software development with .Net technologies).
• Experience with OO design and implementation techniques.
• Database design and implementation (SQL 2005 - 2016).
• Strong Web Application design experience.

Qualifications/Skills:

• Degree or greater in a IT related discipline 
• Minimum of three years within a software engineering environment working primarily with Microsoft development technologies.
• Strong Business Analysis background with good customer facing skills.
• Good technical background with an understanding of the issues and processes required to deliver high quality software applications.
• Must have strong oral and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated team player with results oriented track record.
• Good project management awareness and experience.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skill.
• Desired - 5 or more years of experience in Information Technology with a heavy concentration in application architecture, integration design in the most recent three years.

SureCandidate Contact 
If you would like to apply or discuss the details of this position in strict confidence Contact Matthew Duane Rice Email: jobs@surecandidate.ie