Senior Business Analyst

This Senior Business Analyst (SBA) role is an analyst, advisor and facilitator role acting with some of Product Owners responsibilities.
Several years ago, one of the Shift4 Payments Lithuania development teams successfully launched a Partner Portal (Internal/ External sales self-service for daily work and customer service). At the moment there is continued development for the US market and the system is under preparation for international expansion and Core project (internal CRMs replacement).

The development teams (2 dedicated Scrum teams) can expect SBA support with design, documentation, backlog preparation and priorities confirmation (planned to be done in alignment with 2 other BAs), and getting answers on how existing and TO BE solutions should work. Within the Agile process, this translates to:

• Stocking and grooming the product backlog;
• Developing application designs and requirements;
• Making product and feature implementation decisions;
• Assisting other team members in understanding how the application should function.

The Senior Business Analyst understands business needs very well, offers scenarios to solve business problems, assists decision-makers in gathering information to make decisions, helps with QA and UAT, and follows up on progress.

Responsibilities:

• Gather business requirements and translate business needs into clearly defined, detailed, and documented requirements, functional designs, and system supplemental specifications for new applications, with the mindset of “remove non-essential parts.”;
• Create and maintain project lifecycle documents/deliverables (vision/scope document, AS IS and TO BE flow, supplemental specifications, and flow diagrams, backlog building in collaboration with other BAs and based on leadership high level roadmap);
• Analyze change requests/enhancements in existing applications and participate as a SME for new strategic programs or initiatives;
• Provide required business and/or subject matter expertise for both project and production-related activities;
• Assist the leadership in decision making, executing on product initiatives, and in managing and refining the product backlog to keep it detailed appropriately, estimated, emergent, and prioritized;
• Ensure full compliance, obtain appropriate sign-offs, and maintain required standards throughout the project lifecycle;
• Assist with scrum ceremony facilitation, improving team way of working;
• Support the development team during development and collaborate with business representatives and leadership to achieve solid solutions that satisfy business needs, goals, and objectives. Daily issues and bugs management is also part of our success;
• Assist in tracking and providing project status updates to the appropriate clients and stakeholders;
• Assist with QA and UAT and verify that the delivered application requirements meet customer needs based on the specifications.

Requirements:

• Bachelor of Science degree and/or relevant extensive experience in a business analyst role;
• Proficiency in Agile/Scrum software development lifecycle (SDLC) and project management-related activities;
• Must be flexible and demonstrate the ability to execute on deadlines in a high-pressure environment;
• Demonstrate the ability to solve problems with a sense of ownership, enthusiasm, and innovation;
• High level of written/oral communication skills;
• Experience in group and/or management presentations;
• Experience in payment processing or financial services industry is a plus;
• Experience of technical / systems analysis or flexibility to get access and learn working with backend data is a plus.

We offer

• A growing innovative company with a friendly atmosphere;
• Social Responsibility Initiatives;
• Creative, people-oriented, encouraging working environment;
• Personal budget for a year to raise professional competence;
• We also have our library, and anyone can order new books;
• Internal career development program “Bridge”;
• Cutting-edge technologies and tools;
• Office in the city center with parking for cars, bicycles, and scooters;
• The flexibility enables work-life balance;
• Private health insurance;
• Additional vacation days for each year spent with us;
• Solid salary and annual bonuses for the achieved results;
• NYSE: FOUR Restricted Stock Units award based on your seniority;
• Employee referral program.

The salary range for this position is 4500-5500 EUR / gross. The exact salary will be determined based on the candidate’s experience.

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