Jira Align Senior Business Analyst

Jira Align Senior Business Analyst

Duration: Long Term

Location: Pleasanton, CA (open to remote candidates if they can work 8am-5pm PST work hours)

Position: Remote

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years in Jira and Jira Align or similar enterprise-level planning product experience
• 6+ years of enterprise level business requirement analysis for enterprise software implementation and operation.
• 4+ years providing complex analysis across multiple functions involving requirements gathering, process improvement, and/or data analysis for large scale enterprises.
• 5+ years of working with enterprise agility
• 3+ years Technical proficiency in scripting, troubleshooting

Other Qualifications/Attributes

• Jira Administration experience highly desirable
• Experience using Atlassian REST APIs to develop custom solutions for integrations with other tools and automation of manual processes
• Highly team-oriented and collaborative - transparent in communication and willing to flex to support other team members without hesitation
• Able to translate sophisticated requirements into everyday language in order to drive discussions and decision making
• Able to identify relationships between analyses and identify impact to other programs
• Drive cross-functional responsibilities and data needs to completion.
• Drive key team members to decisions (those involved in the analyses/program)
• Ability to independently resolve cross-functional issues/challenges while staying connected to the bigger picture and overall team.
• Problem-solver capable of translating issues into simple terms to facilitate discussions and decisions.
• Strong organizational, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Drives analysis efforts that impact the enterprise and requires deep domain Subject Matter Expertise
• Identify, lead, and de-escalate friction points and risks in data, process, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Optimally interact with and influence senior management on decisions that impact multiple organizations.
• Take a pragmatic and framework-agnostic approach to agility - can think outside the box and apply solutions thoughtfully to solve real business problems.