Business Analyst Lead

About Datacom

With over 6,200 people, and centre’s of technical excellence spread across Australasia, Datacom is committed to developing and growing its capability across Asia. Founded in 1965 in New Zealand, and with over 2 decades of operating in Malaysia and the Philippines, Datacom has experienced expediential growth. Through all this, Datacom has maintained high levels of profitability with a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective digital and technology solutions, all delivered by dynamic teams spread across various locations. Our people are the best in their fields – smart, passionate, and dedicated to providing exceptional IT services to our customers. This makes for a rewarding and fast-paced place to work.

About the role

Would you like to work for an International company where your opinion matters ? Where you will be recognised and involved ? If so read on : Datacom is experiencing expediential growth and looking to expand its already established operations based from Asia. Successful applicants will be part of a dynamic development team spanning across Asia working with one of Australasia’s largest organisations. Founded in 1965 in New Zealand, Datacom has over 6,500 employees, has been delivering services from Manila and Kuala Lumpur for over 2 decades and is now committed to the ongoing development of its international footprint.

Our client list is long ranging across almost every industry including government, finance, transportation, utilities and more. We’ve built an incredible range of applications for these clients from real time banking to pizza ordering, from mobile apps to latest cloud technologies and from online shopping to systems that keep the rivers clean. We’re proud of our clients and we’re proud of the work we do for them.

We’re looking for people that want the challenges of working in an MNC with really diverse clients, high paced development using the latest technologies and techniques and delivering high quality applications that make our clients happy. We want people passionate about delivering innovative software. If you’ve already achieved great results in your career and want to extend to new clients, teams and tools then this is probably the right opportunity for you.

We’re creating a team of motivated, ambitious people that want to show the world what they can do by creating great applications for customers. You’ll have access to great technologies, great people and opportunities and the backing of one of the region’s premier IT companies. Join us to find out how you can take advantage of these opportunities and take your career to the next level.

Requirements

About the Role – Business Analyst Lead

Skills and Requirements

We’re looking for a confident Technical Business Analyst Lead able to work in an agile team helping guide the use of technology and delivery approach. You will have strong technical skills acting as the pivot or intermediary between end-users and IT (Information Technology) to ensure that business/user requirements are delivered in IT solutions.

The Team Leader will be responsible in efficiently providing quality and efficient customer service to customers through the daily management of a team of employees to include hiring, motivating, recognizing and rewarding, coaching, counseling, training, and problem solving. The Team Leader will be the contact point for all team members and should proactively ensure smooth team operations and effective collaboration.

Requirements Discovery

Understand the client's business, existing processes, problems, and needs you will be responsible for

• Creating JIRA tickets
  • Acceptance criteria
  • Implementation details
  • Mappings of consumers and providers
• Document information on Confluence
  • UML diagrams (sequence), Integration design patterns
  • Mapping tables
  • Endpoints and environments
  • Postman collections
  • Acceptance criteria
• Facilitate workshops and discussion sessions/channels
  • 3 amigos session (Dev. tester and BA)
• Swagger Docs
• Data model implementation
  • HTTP Operations
  • Data types
  • Creating Feature branches for the change
    • Committing the change and creating Pull request for Tech leds and other BAs to review the change
  • validation requirements
• Technical Ability:
  • Create Swagger Specification (Contracts) - Swagger Editor or Notepad++ or VS code
  • Understanding of the integration patterns and flows:
    • Consumers and providers of the APIs
    • Error Handling patterns
    • Messaging Queuing Processes such as ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Estimation and Team Management – You will provide estimates for Change Requests and larger pieces of work following a reliable and traceable estimation methodology.
• Design the system from a functional perspective, produce drafts of the Design documents, lead/manage the review of those documents with the client, and achieve approval and signoff of the Design documents
• Work closely with the Technical Lead and Architects, ensure they are kept updated, and especially made aware of scope changes, project issues, and risks
• Provide team with business experience, advice on industry best practices, etc.
• Provide input into User Guides as required
• Ensure all reviews required are completed at the required checkpoints
• Tools Experience:
  • Intellij/eclipse
  • Git/Bitbucket
  • Bamboo (Application delivery pipeline)
  • Splunk
  • Postman (API testing)
  • SOAP UI

Professional Qualities:

• 3+ Year of experience Leading a Technical Team
• 3+ years of experience as a Technical Business Analyst working in Agile teams.
• Attention to detail
• Deadline driven
• Excellent communication skills
• Work well within a team environment
• Proficient in English

Responsibilities

As a Business Analyst Lead you’ll be responsible for the following day-to-day activities:

• Develop the team to ensure delivery of a consistently superior customer experience
• People Management, including all HR related issues, as well as staff development
• Contingency Plan Implementation
• Responsiveness – meet KPI expectations
• Continuous proactive evaluation and improvement of performance metrics and processes
• Incorporate Datacom values into team interactions
• Manage team development and training, including on-boarding of new hires
• Attend to all process and technical escalations in a timely and professional manner
• Produce drafts of the Requirements documents, lead/manage the review of those documents with the client, achieve approval and signoff of the Requirements documents
• Lead the Analysis and Design stage, arrange and lead any communication, meetings, and workshops for this stage
• Work closely with the Technical Lead, ensuring they have sufficient understanding of the functional requirements to design the System Architecture.
• Work closely with the Test Analysts, ensure they are also kept updated, and especially made aware of scope changes, project issues, and risks
• Resolve issues raised by developers and testers during the Development and Testing stages, in relation to specification questions and ambiguities, communicating with clients wherever necessary

Benefits

Our office is located at BGC Taguig and We have a hybrid work setup (Twice a week), flexible work schedule and we promote Work-Life balance an APAC focus means no graveyard shifts!

We also provide Exciting perks such as Spotter Bonus, HMO with Free 4 Dependent, Leave credits, Performance bonuses, and a work-life balance environment