Senior Business Analyst – Digital Technology

Job title: Senior Business Analyst – Digital Technology

Job description: Job Description

As an employee at Thomson Reuters, you will play a role in shaping and leading the global knowledge economy. Our technology drives global markets and helps professionals around the world make decisions that matter. Whether solving for today’s challenges or tomorrow’s aspirations, you will work with the industry’s brightest thinkers on diverse projects, creating next-generation solutions that deliver powerful results. As the world’s leading provider of intelligent information, we want your unique perspective to create the solutions that advance our business-and your career.

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your extensive Business Analyst experience to lead technology Scrum teams through complex, full life cycle implementation in a world-class company? The Digital Technology team is looking to add a Senior Business Analyst to a well-established global digital team. This position requires someone who is a passionate learner, an independent thinker, works well collaboratively across multiple disciplines, and is comfortable working with a variety of people. This is a chance to get in and make an immediate impact transforming the way our customers interact with us digitally as we shape the next generation of an enterprise-wide Unified Experience. Your work will bridge the gap between business and technology by possessing a strong understanding of both domains. You will engage with the Product Owner for the User Experience to understand desired outcomes and elicit requirements, translating them into functionality that can be implemented by the delivery team.

About the Role

As a Senior Business Analyst, you will:

Develop and Delivery: Apply modern Engineering practices around agile; you will be involved in the entire development lifecycle utilizing agile scrum methodology

Be a Team Player: Work in a collaborative team-oriented environment, share information, value diverse ideas, interact with business & technical partner with cross-functional and remote teams

Be Curious & Innovative: Continuously update yourself with next-generation business analyst methodologies, tools, and contribute to process improvements across programs

Have an Agile Mindset: By respecting individuals & Interactions, collaborating with the business and engineers, responding to change quickly, & delivering working software as expected by the business.

Be an Effective Communicator: Through active engagement and communication with cross-functional partners and team members, you will effectively articulate ideas and collaborate on technical developments

Take Ownership: Responsible and accountable for scrum team deliverables across multiple technologies

About You

You’re a fit for the role of Senior Business Analyst if you have:

Basic qualifications:

5+ years experience working as a Business Analyst

Established background in an Agile environment with a proven understanding of end-to-end software development lifecycle, including but not limited to requirements definition, user experience, development practices, testing, and deployment

Experience with scrum ceremonies including Feature & Development refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retros​

Experience in Tech Story Prioritization based on Feature and User story prioritization​ as well as Backlog Refinement ceremonies with SME and Scrum Team​

Preferred qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science or closely related field.

Can write & analyze tech stories including acceptance criteria and use cases​

Experience defining non-Functional requirements for Technology Stories​

Led and coordinated a team with story splitting utilizing the SPIDR approach​

Experience creating Process diagrams and business flow for Tech Stories​, managing Business Validation and approval of stories​ and Product Backlog ownership​ for integration scrum teams

Experience managing issue defect progress​

What’s in it For You

At Thomson Reuters, our people are our greatest assets. Here are some of the benefits we offer for your personal and professional growth:

Learning & Development:

Exposure to a wide breadth of leading-edge technology

Career growth – ability to work on multiple projects and/or with various teams

Professional growth and development opportunity through various training programs, conferences, networking events, in-house speaker series, etc.

Access to Unconferences, Harvard Manage Mentor, and more, we offer learning opportunities for everyone

Benefits/Perks:

Health benefits

Savings/investment plans

Paid time off (including time off to volunteer and extended parental leave)

Flexibility: We’ve been named as one of Forbes, Best Companies for Work/Life Balance

Global Opportunities: We have employees in over 90 countries, working across 3 different industries

Your wellbeing: We offer a program that focuses on making our lives healthier

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 25,000 employees across more than 75 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

More information about Thomson Reuters can be found on thomsonreuters.com.

Locations
Toronto-Ontario-Canada;Eagan-Minnesota-United States of America

Company: Thomson Reuters

Expected salary:

Location: Toronto, ON

Job date: Sat, 22 May 2021 22:52:59 GMT