Description
ABOUT THE TEAM
Centro is building the world’s most respected product and engineering organization. This is a bold claim, and one we do not make lightly. Of course, we can back it up: Ad Tech is one of the hottest technology sectors today, with the worlds most distinguished product and engineering organizations vying to be the first to truly and forever disrupt a $140 billion industry.
Of course, delivering technology that changes the way an industry does business requires a massive product, design, and engineering effort. To do our heavy lifting, we attract talent from an array of disciplines to work in highly-collaborative, agile, cross-functional teams. Together we tackle the complexity of scale that comes from performing 30 billion transactions per day. We innovate with machine learning and Big Data solutions to deliver optimized campaign performance and recommendations. We create elegant user interfaces that unite all the functions of our platform into one, seamless, intuitive, and delightful experience.
Together, we are winning advertising tech, will you join us?
ABOUT THE ROLE
You will help build the Business Analyst practice within Centro’s engineering organization where you will collaborate with a strong, cross functional team of software architects, developers, testers, designers, and product managers.
CORE RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct requirements analysis via information gathering sessions with business users and technical staff, workshops and meetings to define business requirements. Develop supporting process flows.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Conduct analysis and documentation of existing business processes; recommend process improvements.
- Provide business analysis services in support of both organizational as well as client engagement initiatives.
- Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis
- Perform business analysis and systems analysis for complex initiatives.
- Work with product managers to develop epics and stories. Break down epics into smaller stories and work with the development team to define and estimate the stories.
- Work as part of the development team to deliver potentially shippable increments of capability in regular iterations.
- Apply knowledge and experience of agile practices and techniques in support of cross-functional teams
- Manage functional backlog and ensure appropriate action is taken to ensure backlog accuracy at all times.
- Drive the resolution of backlog related issues and execute timely escalation if needed.
- Analyze change requests, determine impacts and execute change requests management procedures.
- Track Analysis efforts and provide visibility into analysis velocity.
- Develop and maintain project glossary
- Facilitate Agile Planning and Estimation workshops.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelors Degree (MIS/CIS or Computer Science preferred). Or Equivalent Experience
- 3-10 years experience on a software development team, with at least 5 years of professional Business Analyst experience. Preference given to individuals with enterprise web development/SaaS experience.
- Knowledge and experience in various techniques to elicit, analyze, and communicate requirements
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced, ever changing development environment; must be flexible and willing to re-prioritize as needed.
- Comprehensive understanding of software development methodologies.
- Deep knowledge of Agile processes and how they are applied
- Self-starter with the experience and aptitude to work independently, in collaboration with the team or as a mentor to more junior Business Analysts.
ABOUT CENTRO
Centro provides unified, cloud-based software to simplify digital media operations. Our media management platform streamlines and scales ad buys across all channels, accessing both guaranteed and biddable inventory, to achieve any campaign objective. Our holistic approach gives marketers a single system of record to fulfill their research, planning, buying, optimization and reporting needs. Since 2001, Centro has successfully planned and executed more than 100,000 national and local campaigns across all digital display platforms and ad format types. Headquartered in Chicago with 33 offices in North America, Centro's success and commitment to culture has led to many accolades, including #1 on Crain's Best Places to Work in Chicago in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014.
Centro is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, gender, age, disability or any other basis protected under the law.
