Business Analyst; Food and Beverage Manufacturing

Position: Business Analyst (Food and Beverage Manufacturing)
** Solutions
* * At Coherent Solutions, we offer engineering solutions that protect your time, your bottom line, and most importantly, your business.
** Our Approach
** We work collaboratively and transparently, providing regular updates and seeking feedback, to ensure that your needs are met, and the project is delivered successfully.
** Locations
* *** Company Background
** The customer holds a top position in the food and beverage sphere. As a global player with operations across five continents, they partner with leading retailers, restaurants, and distributors.
** Project Description
** The project is a complete inventory management system with the ability to create items, resources and tasks. It creates, stores and helps ship pallets. It manages connections with automated guided vehicles, automated storage and retrieval systems. The client is not using the application for internal needs only but also is looking for customers interested in purchasing. The task is to help define and deliver solutions that provide business outcomes and will serve as a facilitator between the Business Analytics team and Business Stakeholders.

You will work with the Agile Team consisting of Business Relationship Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Software Developers, Azure Databricks Architects & Business Stakeholders to evaluate business and technical requirements, identify needs, and support development of strategies to maximize digital opportunities. They will create functional and nonfunctional product backlog items and user stories for descriptive analytics, predictive insights, AI/ML and other digital solutions in the manufacturing industry.
** Technologies
* ** Azure Data Factory
* Azure Data Lake
* Azure SQL DW
* Azure SQL
** What You'll Do
*** Work in continuous delivery mode, analyzing, testing and delivering features iteratively;
* Demonstrate Agile processes and principles for effective delivery;
* Demonstrate Lean principles for efficient delivery;
* Work with the Business Relationship Manager, Scrum Master and Product Owner on defining the project’s detailed scope;
* Provide responsibility for creating, refining, and maintaining user stories and associated deliverables such as process flows and test cases to meet development and stakeholder needs;
* Provide guidance and facilitates conversations as needed on sizing stories, choosing stories for sprints, splitting stories and determining technical story details;
* Work with the Product Owner and other BAs with the prioritization of user stories in the product backlog;
* Work with the Product Owner, BAs, and Quality Assurance Analysts on defining acceptance criteria sufficiently for testing;
* Work with the Product Owner to confirm the delivered solution is in fulfillment of the stated requirements;
* Work with business stakeholders to test user stories;
* Guide the team to ensure a solid understanding of the ceremonies, expectations, deliverables, dependencies, and their role in the Agile development methodology;
* Provide coaching in the discipline for junior resources;
** Job Requirements
*** 5+ years experience as a Business Analyst working on information technology projects;
* 2+ years' experience as a Business Analyst in an Agile Business Intelligence project-based environment;
* Knowledge of Agile frameworks and Agile tools;
* Proficiency with user stories, Scrum, Kanban, retrospectives, team planning and other related Agile techniques;
* Analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills;
* Communication and interpersonal abilities;
* Proficiency in requirement gathering techniques, process modeling, and documentation;
* Experience interacting with cross-functional groups to support consensus outcomes/decisions;
* Familiarity with project management methodologies and the software development lifecycle;
* Knowledge of relevant tools such as Microsoft Visio, JIRA, Confluence;
* Experience moderating team dynamics and leading through influence;
* Experience facilitating meetings at multiple levels of an organization and an understanding of facilitation techniques;
* Experience in how to apply different techniques to optimize the team's effectiveness when…