Technical Product Engineer/Analyst (Digital)

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Technical Product Engineer/Analyst (Digital)

Our client, a global supplier for IT services, requires an experienced Technical Product Engineer/Analyst, to join their team in their clients' office in City of London.

This is a 6 months temporary contract, to start on 1st of February. You can work remotely until Covid abates.

This is not a Developer role, but they are looking for someone who can understand the application of technology well. The ideal candidate will have a technical background (foundation) allied with a track record of working on successful technical products and exposure to API development, developer tooling, micro-services, API standards definition and cloud-based platforms.

Role Purpose

The customers Core Engineering team create centralised platforms, shared services, libraries and tooling to reduce costs, improve standards and increase Developer productivity so that Developers across the company can build more functionality, more consistently, securely and faster for the customers.

They are currently seeking a high calibre professional to join their team as Technical Product Analyst to support the definition, development and release of new products as well as developing, enhancing and championing improvements existing products. Ensuring that they are competitive and meet the needs of the clients. The TPA will work closely with Solution Engineers, engineering, architecture, product and business to define the requirements for new product features, client onboarding and support. Modelling the functionality into use cases, epics and stories to deliver quality solutions that are easily consumable by clients.

To ensure success as a TPA, you will also need great communication and analysis skills, attention to detail and know how to write a user story.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with the Product Owner, Engineers, Architecture and Business Stakeholders to elicit high-level requirements and capture business/customer needs
  • Work closely with Solution Engineers, Engineering, Architecture, Product and Business to define the requirements for new product features, client onboarding and support
  • Modelling the functionality into use cases, epics and stories to deliver quality solutions that are easily consumable by clients
  • Support the definition, development and release of new products as well as developing, enhancing and championing improvements existing products and ensuring that they are competitive and meet the needs of the clients
  • Assess the benefits, risks and dependencies of various solutions
  • Assist the Product Owner and with prioritization of competing business demands
  • Participate in release and strategic planning
  • Deliver detailed business and systems analysis and define functional and non-functional requirements to deliver reliable robust resilient and secure software solutions meeting strict operational specifications on a timely basis
  • Create structured epics and clear and concise user stories with acceptance criteria to communicate desired functionality
  • Refine user stories with Engineering and QA to ensure they are ready for development
  • Participate in agile ceremonies, support engineering teams and ensure your requirements have been delivered as specified
  • Support end of sprint, release and benefits realisation reporting

Key Requirements:

  • Knowledge of Business and System Analysis techniques, including process and Datamodelling
  • Strong analytical, design and problem solving skills
  • Knowledge of Agile/Scrum principles and best practices
  • Knowledge of API-driven development and best practices, especially in security perspective
  • Experience in review functional/technical specification documentation
  • Experience with Jira and Confluence
  • Knowledge or experience in Cloud technologies adoption such as AWS/Azure/GCP and event driven design and architecture
  • Experience of working on financial systems and banking solutions
  • Familiarity with and willingness to learn more about DevOps tool (Git, Jenkins, Splunk, AppD)
  • Strong business sense with good understanding in how IT systems impact business objectives
  • Excellent team player with ability to work under minimal supervision
  • Good command of written and spoken English
  • Great communication and analysis skills, attention to detail and know how to write a user story
  • University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline

Start date
01/02/2021
Duration
6 months
From
Project Recruit
Published at
25.01.2021
Project ID:
2035792
Contract type
Freelance
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