Senior Specialist - Architecture

Role description

Job Title: Product Analyst

Location: New York, NY

Work Mode: Hybrid

Job Description
This position is within the product team for Media Supply Chain Platforms. The Product Analyst will work with the business units, learn their business, understand their requirements and provide technical solutions to meet and support those requirements. They will work to implement new solutions to support the business clients across multiple platforms based on customer's needs and in accordance of Information Security policies. Initiatives within this team will begin with a discovery phase and move into design, implementation, testing and deployment.
The Product Analyst will be responsible for defining, analyzing and documenting, user requirements, procedures, problems and leading joint design efforts to offer a new solution or value proposition to customers, automate processing or to improve existing business processes and associated information systems. The Product Analyst will also be responsible for defining the appropriate methodologies and best practices for performing business analysis and design in the support of core organizational functions and business processes.


Duties and Responsibilities:
Solicits client requirements through interviews, workshops and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
Evaluates business requirements for applications and systems integration and service activation, while delivering new or modified software systems enhancements and/or integration solutions.
Conducts reviews of and analyzes business and information technology processes and prepares essential groundwork for the development of systems.
Participates in the definition, testing, training, implementation and support of system requirements.
Identifies customer requirements, develops test schedules, creates testing plans and test cases, tracks and documents the development and results of these plans.
s manager to potential risks and issues of importance.
Uncovers client requirements via industry standard analysis techniques such as Data Flow and Object Modeling, Case Analysis, Workflow Analysis, and Functional Decomposition Analysis
Ensures requirements are understood, agreed to and signed off at the appropriate early stages in a project.
Provides analysis of processes and workflows with suggestions for improvement. Identifies areas where technology can lead to increased efficiency and productivity.
Understands the functions supported by the current systems. Understand and accommodate the requirement constraints imposed by the current systems.
Provides detailed analysis resulting in clear, concise and unambiguous system requirements. Requirements analysis will undergo multiple iterations and refinements. Documents detailed use cases that cover all alternate and exception flows. Supplements use cases with real world scenarios.
Provides UI mock-ups. Leads design discussions and identifies design options.
Provides user documentation and training for the system.
Interacts with others in the business and IT organization.
Works with providers of software and hardware products as well as consulting vendor service providers
Prioritize assignments in a high visibility mission critical system
Establish and oversee the customer's initial adoption, training and development of best practices to build a strong foundation before and during initial roll outs
Troubleshoot issues quickly and appropriately by identifying immediate remediation, determining root cause, and coordinating long term solution.

Required Skills & Experience
Demonstrated track record of defining systems that lead to increased efficiency and productivity through the use of technology
Demonstrated track record of implementing enterprise solutions.
Documented experience with SDLC methodology and process related to Business Analysis
Excellent analytical, communication (both verbal and written), facilitation/organizational skills
Strategic, innovative thinking and vision
Strong persuasion skills
Strong business acumen
Excellent analytical and communication (both verbal and written) skills
Solid understanding of technology
Comfortable learning, using and explaining new technology
Strong organization and time management skills
Media Industry experience an advantage
Media industry management experience an advantage (Fabric Studio and Fabric Xytech a plus)