Business Solutions Architect

Your Tasks:

• Work within the agile process and take decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team;
• Typically supervise several business analysts;
• Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project;
• Interact and validate requirements with the business;
• Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific business domain;
• Be involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints;
• Review deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint;
• Organize live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint;
• Evaluate and facilitate progress reporting;
• Assist with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information;
• Evaluate prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs;
• Interact with business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in IT, combined with 13 years of relevant working experience in IT;
• Multi-annual experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems;
• Multi-annual experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.);
• Excellent Knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle;
• Good Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework;
• Ability to give business and technical presentations;
• Experience working in a public sector environment; in European Institutions will be considered an asset;
• The following certifications are a strong asset: Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI, PRINCE2 Foundation, Certified in PM2, ITIL v4 certification;
• Excellent command of the English language.