Software Solution Analyst

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Job Description

You will be an integral part of a software delivery feature team in a fast moving, outcome-oriented company. Our teams are agile, automated, and delivery focused. To be a part of a Kingsmen team, you need to love delivering software. In our software delivery model, the Analyst joins our proven, high-caliber team to design and deliver quality software solutions. This role will manage relationships with client product owners, facilitate work in-take and prioritization, and break down high level client requirements into detailed Features / Functions / Stories for our delivery teams. Planning, design, and development work in this operating model is rigorous, disciplined, and uses leading-edge technologies to develop simple & efficient solutions. If you love delivering software and are up to the challenge, then we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities Include

• Effectively communicate with the technical team and client
• Work as client liaison throughout execution
• Work with Product Owner on work in-take, prioritization, and requirements discovery
• Drive 5 iteration planning and execution against it
• Manage portfolio and backlog in Agile tooling (Feature / Functions / Stories)
• Discover and define function requirements
• Coordinate with other dependent teams
• Coordinate work effort amongst the other Analysts
• Review Stories / Acceptance Criteria to drive towards elaborated Stories ready for iteration
• Oversee and manage regression testing activities
• Decompose requirements into specific and actionable development Stories with the consultation of the development team(s). Associated activities include:
  • Story creation and elaboration (detailed description and acceptance criteria)
  • Data analysis
  • Story administrative maintenance (updates to story point sizing, sequencing, etc.)
  • Story backlog administration (organization of bodies of related work, etc.)
• Provide ongoing consultation and clarification of the Functions and Stories to development team resources
• Capturing and presenting metrics around the feature team’s execution (estimates vs actuals, predicable velocity, burnup / burndown, etc.)
• Able to step in for an Analyst as needed

Required Skills and Experience

• Minimum 7+ years of experience
• Extensive experience working in a mature Agile environment
• Experience working with teams building user facing web applications
• Basic SQL skills, comfortable working with data, both analyzing existing data sets, as well as validating test results or triaging issues by inspecting data in the database
• Experience with Agile tools such as Rally or Azure DevOps
• Experience decomposing work into Features / Functions / Stories
• Ability to coach and mentor other Analysts and manage their workload
• Ability to write and review Acceptance Criteria
• Ability to work with UX design team and include product design
• Knowledge or understanding of how systems work. Exposure to application components: UI, web services, server architecture, system architecture, databases
• Strong linear focus: Should be able to walk through detail for planning and executing an iteration
• Very strong communication skills—ability to articulate complex problems to internal team, as well as confidence in communicating with senior level stakeholders effectively
• Strong emotional intelligence—should be very efficient in identifying with their target audience and communicating appropriately
• Highly organized, self-starter, with strong analytical skills

What We Offer

• A collaborative team environment where we learn from each other
• A company where we want you to learn and grow so we can promote from within
• Time every quarter to learn new skills ("Hone Your Craft Period")
• Access to online training materials through Pluralsight
• Regular meetings with the Chief Information Officer

The Kingsmen Software Stack

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About Kingsmen Software

Kingsmen Software is a software services company that crafts high-quality software products and helps their clients do the same via their exclusive approach, The Kingsmen Way, which combines processes, tooling, automation, and frameworks to enable scalability, efficiency, and business agility. Kingsmen’s software studio is located in the historic Camden Cotton Mill in Fourth Ward in Uptown Charlotte, NC. Visit www.kingsmensoftware.com.