Technical Business Analyst
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Sensormatic Solutions is on a mission: we are revolutionizing the bricks-and-mortar retail world with innovative products that fuel their success. Our path forward includes active exploration of IoT, Computer Vision, Machine (Deep) Learning and other technologies. We believe this is a thrilling journey and providing clarity on our future and empowering people to do their best work is the key to our success. We are inspired by people who are passionate, curious and want to push the envelope on innovation. Around here, we know that if we "build great stuff" that helps solve problems for our customers, great things will follow.

Who you are:

You are someone who takes pride in your work, seeks order in chaos, and wants the opportunity to work with your like-minded individuals. You are a leader, not a follower, with an innovative spirit who wants to collaborate with a team of brilliant minds in our quest to build brilliant products.

What you'll do:

* We are working on some challenging problems that require bright minds and grit to help us solve. We work in an agile environment. We have taken our analytic products 'to the cloud' and are entering the arena of big data and the "internet of things." It is an exciting journey that will allow you to:


* Partner with our product and application development teams to help build analytics products


* Partner with product owners to help define those products, and refine their required functionality


* Speak the language of both the product owner and the developer, translating business requirements into technical requirements


* Communicate key insights and findings with product owners


* Become an expert in our analytics products


* Report on common sources of technical issues or questions


* Report progress, issues and status at daily and weekly stand-ups



What we look for:

Required:

* Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of business analysis (with a strong preference for experience with analytics platforms/products)


* Agile methodology experience, refining business requirements into agile stories and tasks


* Take pride in effective written and verbal communication


* Ability to understand complex systems, and trace the effects of a change throughout those systems


* Sharp critical thinking skills, including systems analysis, problem analysis and resolution, and sound judgment/decision making ability



Preferred:

* Advanced understanding of agile methodologies and Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence


* Background in software development


* The ability to build queries against both SQL and NoSQL databases



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