About this Position

As a Technology Senior Analyst, you will coordinate the execution of our business and/or technical initiatives in sync with the program BoW and DB’s policies and strategy. You will meaningfully contribute to this by acting as the single point of contact for the assigned initiatives and products, showing accountability and responsibility spanning across planning, execution and delivery. You will work together with several SMEs to define the priorities, identify and coordinate the resolution of issues, coordinate implementation of the changes, communicate with wider team and different stakeholders, and ensure the assigned backlog is well managed in terms of priorities, dependencies and delivery timelines with a strong focus on high-quality delivery.

You’ll love this role if

• You are an experienced Technology Analyst/Technical Product Manager/Technical Project Manager wanting to expand knowledge towards technical initiatives coordination .
• You’re looking for a complex environment that challenges you as both a communicator and problem solver
• You have a team mindset and a commitment to the success of others, and like collaborating on multiple diverse projects at the same time. You can expect to be working on several projects at a time, with different priorities and time span.
• You like to move fluidly between the birds-eye view and the individual details: you can dive deep into issues as easily as you can understand and convey how a high-level plan meets the needs of a given project’s goals.
• You love helping your team and partners reach consensus, through implementation discussions, negotiating features (and their priority) — with a clear distinction between important and urgent.
• You value the expertise and experience of your teammates while also being able to challenge the status-quo
• You enjoy communicating and know how to run effective meetings. You are comfortable with distributed, remote work on different time zones.
• You are an Agile evangelist, continuously looking for process improvements

Day to Day Responsibilities

• Managing assigned initiatives alone or together with other colleagues to ensure the effective delivery of the business and technical backlog depending on priority, urgency and dependencies.
• Identifying priorities and create project plans. Establishing clear milestones and drive the work to completeness. Clearly articulate scope, timelines, owners, risks.
• Ensuring each initiative has a dependency matrix.
• Ensure RAID is up to date and understood by all stakeholders
• Breaking down scope into smaller tasks and managing prioritization and execution, making strategic trade-offs to address issues that arise.
• Identifying roadblocks and driving resolution, by either managing directly or ensuring a clear hand-off to the right owner.
• Transforming raw, unstructured information into clear and easy to read.
• Managing product backlog, roadmap and documentation up to date
• Managing relationships and communicating with customers and stakeholders. Serving as the first point of contact for assigned initiatives.
• Maintaining clear, effective channels of communication with the team, including facilitating prioritization discussion, dependencies tracking, risks mitigation, recurring status updates, ad-hoc meetings to unblock issues and retrospectives.
• Understanding and communicating backlog, in tandem with PMs and/or product owner in different planning and prioritization discussions.
• Running effective meetings that balance the discussion of technical details with high-level strategy and ongoing execution.
• Strengthening DBs infrastructure
• Advocates for the on-time delivery of the backlog and highlight risks/benefits to other stakeholders
• Partnering with other SMEs for lean implementation and clear communication of technical changes

Skills & Expectations

The ideal candidate will have:

• Definitely a can-do attitude
• Sense of ownership
• Strong technical analysis or project management like knowledge, certification preferred.
• Experience working with Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Project, SharePoint
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Minimum 3 years of technical analysis or project management lyke experience (diverse teams, on and off premises, vendor management for T&M and FP contracts)
• Good understanding of planning/estimating techniques
• Ability to think and communicate strategically and clearly across different knowledge and seniority levels.
• Ability to design and lead concise, thoughtful meetings.
• Ability to coordinate and influence team members to ensure delivery on time.
• Ability to track actions from initiation to closure.
• Develop ad hoc status reports and develop executive level briefing decks

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