Functional Product Analyst - 4420-1

Murtech

Pittsburgh, PA

Expired: 14 days ago Applications are no longer accepted.

Full-Time

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Job Title: Functional Product Analyst – USC Only

Location: 100% remote (if not local to Pittsburgh) OR hybrid if local to Pittsburgh (within 50 miles)

Job Description:

This job supports one or more analytical aspects of the product management lifecycle, within a sub-product scope (one or more business application components).

Uses regular judgement and discretion to collaborate with customers and business stakeholders in order to:

Understand customer and stakeholder needs, business capability needs, identity opportunities and create business cases and cost sheet analysis to support the product strategy and evolve the product roadmap
Translate high-level business needs into detailed business requirements for new / modified business capabilities
Perform research, analyze data to determine business problems and trends, assess business processes and business rules to identify/recommend opportunities for process improvements and / or recommendation new / modified business capabilities
Work with business stakeholders and delivery partners to prioritize business capabilities in the product backlog
Provide root cause analysis and corrective action plans
Proactively work with delivery partners to verify and govern delivery of customer needs, and ensure on-time, quality delivery.
The incumbent identifies, documents, and resolves risks, defects and issues
Analyzes market trends for competitive insight to correlate into business value statements and drive business platform recommendations
Builds organizational and platform knowledge in one or more disciplines to advance professional track career
Uses functional and organizational knowledge to mentor junior resources
Requires thorough understanding of assigned business platform and business integrations points to analyze and manage delivery across the product management lifecycle

Responsibilities:

Work with Customers, Business Stakeholder, Vendors, Designers, IT Delivery Partners, and other team members to capture capability needs and drive quality business solutions. Create and maintain deliverables such as business vision, business requirements, customer personas, stakeholder and / or journey maps, product capability roadmaps, product KPIs/metrics, and implementation / delivery plans.
Participate in the full product management delivery life cycle by actively participating with business and IT delivery teams using modern product management delivery practices and methodologies, such as Agile / Scrum, Kanban, etc. to manage product requirements, delivery plans, business product backlog & prioritization, testing, prototyping, and defining customer/user acceptance criteria.
Support various aspects of business analysis, business requirements definition and documentation, business user testing, business requirement traceability, and full product capability delivery (e.g., user acceptance testing plans, scenarios, documentation, defect management) to ensure minimal production defects are realized and completing analysis of the results tying back to customer impacts.
Effectively communicate with team members, customers, partners, and management, including assisting with or conducting business and product requirement walkthroughs and sprint reviews, reporting project / delivery status, supporting and governing delivery of in-house and vendor solutions and providing accurate and concise documentation.
Participate in sprint plans and reviews to ensure product capability development aligns with customer needs and defined business objectives.
Ensure compliance for required standards and all necessary approvals have been obtained throughout the product management and delivery project lifecycle.
Other duties as assigned or requested.

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Information Technology, Information Systems or related field OR 6 years of related and progressive experience
3 years in a Business Analysis and/or Analyst role
Analytical Skills
Problem-Solving
Communication Skills
Report Writing
Agile Methodology
Agile Project Management
Product Management
Critical Thinking
Analysis
Elicitation / Documentation skills

Preferred Qualifications: