Requirements Analyst - Remote but San Diego time zone

Position : Requirements Analyst – Remote but San Diego time zone

Location : San Diego, CA

Duration : 12 Months

Total Hours/week : 40.00

1st Shift

Client : Medical Devices Company

Job Category : Engineering/Technical

Level of Experience : Mid-Level

Employment Type : Contract on W2 (Need US Citizens or GC Holders or GC EAD or OPT or EAD or CPT)

Note: The role is remote but I would like them to be in the San Diego time zone, bonus points if they are in/around san diego to go into the office occasionally but not required.

Job Description:

• The primary responsibilities of the requirement analyst will be managing and prioritizing the product backlog and developing detailed requirements, stories, and tasks.
• To accomplish this, you will work with the market product team to define and document product and feature requirements; liaise with the customers of the platform to ensure that issues and defects are triaged, prioritized, and remediated; collaborate with other Requirement Analysts to manage release coordination activities and partner for value delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements Definition & Analysis: Develop crisp product and feature scope documents that can be used to drive product specifications and architecture, ensuring a clear understanding of product objectives and priorities for the product owner and development team.
• Backlog Management: Work with the product manager to prepare and prioritize the product backlog to ensure efficient workflow and alignment with the product vision and business value.
• Stakeholder Communication: Keep clients and collaborators informed on product status and lead product release plans, setting expectations for new functionalities.
• Project Management & Dependency Oversight: Provide active leadership in mitigating impediments, ensuring governance for change management, leading adjustments to the plan, and managing dependencies to facilitate successful completion of Release/Sprint Goals.
• Drive the team culture to a relentless desire for process improvement including being ready to accept feedback and quickly adjust course accordingly.
• Participate in executing technical and/or cross-functional project work.
• Understand customer needs through literature review, customer interviews, direct observation, and competitive analysis.
• Translate customer needs into software engineering requirements, product brief documents and feature brief documents into specific product, packaging and process specifications.

Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a similar field
• Master's Degree Preferred
• 3-5 years of experience in Requirement Analyst, Product Owner, Product Manager or related roles is required
• 3-5 years of experience working with PaaS or SaaS products
• Strong understanding of cloud computing, APIs, and developer tools.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize work management software such as Jira, Azure Dev Ops, or Aha!
• Demonstrated ability working within an agile software development environment
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work in team settings.
• Good organizational and time management capabilities.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Creative thinking with a focus on product improvement.
• Understanding of product feature prioritization.
• Involvement in product roadmap development.