Business Analyst - Maternity Cover

Are you looking for a position with varied tasks in which you communicate and collaborate on different levels? Is adequately responding to requirements and developments where you shine, and do you have a keen eye for details? Then our position of Business Analyst in our Product Development department could be the job for you. Continue reading and take your chance today!

As a Business Analyst, you work together with a multidisciplinary development team of about six to eight people. The development teams in Product Development work according to the Scrum methodology. The requirements, both Ultimo's and our customers', are translated into backlog items in Jira. In two-week sprints, the team works on these items to translate them into working functionalities. This is how we create new modules, develop new options or improve existing functionality. Because we work according to the CI/CD principle, the functionality can be rolled out to customers very quickly and we also can get feedback very quickly.

As a Business Analyst, you are the one to answer functional questions, but you don't shy away from technical issues either. One of the most important tasks of the Business Analyst is helping to get the backlog ready. This means that, together with the Product Owner, you keep a critical eye on the direction the product is going, investigate all sorts of matters, and use this to translate the rough ideas into concrete, achievable backlog items.

What you'll be doing

• Identifying and analysing requirements (wishes and demands) from the business and translating these into functionality in Ultimo
• Giving demonstrations and collecting requirements during customer panel sessions
• Giving accurate and detailed answers to functional questions in the development team
• Refining the user stories to reach ready backlog items
• Actively sharing knowledge with colleagues and channel partners
• Intake of R&D cases: from analysing and reproducing to providing instructions or preparing a case so that it can be taken up by the development team

What you bring As a Business Analyst, you constantly discover and analyse business needs and translate them into functional solutions in Ultimo. It is a dynamic position that also requires several personal skills. For example, it is important that you can look ahead so that you can make the necessary preparations for upcoming projects, and that you can keep several balls in the air. One moment, you may be working on a project that the team is currently tackling, and the next, you are drawing up the necessary documentation or presenting the software delivered by the team. In between, you will be dealing with all sorts of questions from colleagues both in and outside of Product Development, meaning you will have to be able to prioritise and stay organised. Unexpected and unplanned events give you energy, and you thrive on never having a dull moment.

You also have

• Demonstrable Higher Professional Education (HBO) level of working and thinking
• Diploma in (or comparable to) Technical Computer Science or Business Information Systems
• At least two years of Ultimo experience
• Experience with software for supporting processes
• Experience with using AI in Business Analysis processes
• Affinity with business processes
• Insight, accuracy, pleasant conversation partner and strong team player
• Good command of the English language. Proficiency in Dutch is a plus