Systems Business Analyst (Remote) Remote
Community Brands
Full Time
Remote
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
Overview:
This role requires strong qualitative skills, strategic thinking, sound business judgement, along with the ability to think creatively and work independently.
Education and Experience
Great Technology doesn’t make the difference, great schools and inspired teachers do, but it can help! Every day, we are driven by a shared purpose of letting technology do what it does best, creating space and time so that school staff and teachers can do what they do best, creating a better future and opportunities for all young people.
Our philosophy is to effectively ‘create time’ by helping to restructure the day, modernising the way schools use technology to streamline everyday processes, we lead the way in our sector, helping more schools daily than any other independent education technology company in the UK. Assisting schools in handling complex and time-consuming processes through providing tools, data, and structure to help them operate more efficiently.
Teachers2Parents, SchoolMoney, Parentapps, Groupcall Messenger, xporter, Wisepay and Assembly Analytics are just some of the market leading brands forming Community Brands UK. All together, we supply to over 18,000 schools, with another 24,000 schools using our data integration indirectly. We are a strong and capable company with a history spanning over 60 years.
Community Brands UK is part of the Community Brands family providing software that powers non-profits, associations, and K-12 schools to engage with the people they serve through programs and events, raise funds to enable their mission, and manage their financials and operations.
With over 1,600 employees in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, India, and the Philippines, we know that our success is driven entirely by the people of Community Brands. Through professional opportunity, we strive to give each person a clear path to success and personal growth. We embrace diversity and believe that our differences in experience and perspective are the key to our sustained success.
We are #togetherstronger
Why work here?
Community Brands are an equal opportunity employer, committed to being a successful, caring and welcoming place for all employees. We want to create a supportive and inclusive environment where our employees can reach their full potential, without prejudice and discrimination. We are committed to a culture where respect and understanding is fostered, and the diversity of people's backgrounds and circumstances will be positively valued.
We therefore treat everyone on the basis of their talent and cultural capability, and nothing else.
Additional factors
All persons hired will be required to
We are seeking a Systems Business Analyst (Remote) to help drive the integration/interoperability needs of our Education and Non-Profit lines of business. As the SBA, you will review, analyze, and evaluate requirements related to data integration/interoperability between Community Brands applications and external third-party integrations.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
Position Summary
Understanding API architecture, in an interoperable data flow, is a critical skill expected. Candidates must have the ability to document requirements, data map between integrated applications and facilitate review and approval. Analysts must assist Product Owners with user story documentation and acceptance criteria definition to ensure the achievement of scope, objectives, and requirements. The ability to translate requirements and mappings to the QA team as well as assist with user acceptance testing, as needed, is expected.
This role requires strong qualitative skills, strategic thinking, sound business judgement, along with the ability to think creatively and work independently.
A Day in the Life
- Create documentation including requirements, data mappings, user stories, acceptance criteria, user guides, process flows, and flow charts.
- Interface with stakeholders (internal and external) to define and document requirements for integration solutions, often in the form of user stories.
- Assist with managing the product backlog, working with management and other appropriate sponsors to prioritize requirements, and clearly define deliverables.
- Work with the QA team to ensure understanding of requirements and review test plans to ensure the appropriate test coverage.
- Work with management and stakeholders to plan and execute User Acceptance Testing.
- Respond and prioritizes business and project issues and escalates promptly and appropriately.
- Provide training on product functionality to stakeholders during the product implementation lifecycle.
We are looking for someone who brings
- Must have strong written and spoken communication skills with the ability to present to internal and external audiences.
- Excellent relationship building skills and ability to work both individually and as a member of a team are necessary.
- Proven ability to handle multiple tasks with minimal supervision.
- Proficient in Office 365 - Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook.
- Experience working with Agile development processes and the team collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence and/or Azure Dev Ops.
- Familiarity with APIs, JSON.
- Familiarity with SQL (writing simple queries, looking at databases) is a plus.
- Must have a growth mindset and subscribe to a continuous learning philosophy.
- Knowledge about fundraising and nonprofit customers preferred.
Education and Experience
- BS degree in Computer Science or Business or equivalent experience.
- Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA), or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) is a plus.
- Requires 3+ years of related experience, primarily with data interoperable/integration projects.
- Familiarity with agile product deployment and software development methodologies.
- Experience working within scaled agile (SAFe) methodology a plus.
About Community Brands UK
Great Technology doesn’t make the difference, great schools and inspired teachers do, but it can help! Every day, we are driven by a shared purpose of letting technology do what it does best, creating space and time so that school staff and teachers can do what they do best, creating a better future and opportunities for all young people.
Our philosophy is to effectively ‘create time’ by helping to restructure the day, modernising the way schools use technology to streamline everyday processes, we lead the way in our sector, helping more schools daily than any other independent education technology company in the UK. Assisting schools in handling complex and time-consuming processes through providing tools, data, and structure to help them operate more efficiently.
Teachers2Parents, SchoolMoney, Parentapps, Groupcall Messenger, xporter, Wisepay and Assembly Analytics are just some of the market leading brands forming Community Brands UK. All together, we supply to over 18,000 schools, with another 24,000 schools using our data integration indirectly. We are a strong and capable company with a history spanning over 60 years.
Community Brands UK is part of the Community Brands family providing software that powers non-profits, associations, and K-12 schools to engage with the people they serve through programs and events, raise funds to enable their mission, and manage their financials and operations.
With over 1,600 employees in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, India, and the Philippines, we know that our success is driven entirely by the people of Community Brands. Through professional opportunity, we strive to give each person a clear path to success and personal growth. We embrace diversity and believe that our differences in experience and perspective are the key to our sustained success.
We are #togetherstronger
Why work here?
- Full personal membership to our private healthcare, AXA PPP
- 25 days of holiday, plus the bank holidays
- Generous paid sick leave
- Enhanced paid parental leave
- Membership to our Death in Service Insurance scheme which provides 4x your salary to your loved ones
- Generous salary sacrifice pension scheme
Community Brands are an equal opportunity employer, committed to being a successful, caring and welcoming place for all employees. We want to create a supportive and inclusive environment where our employees can reach their full potential, without prejudice and discrimination. We are committed to a culture where respect and understanding is fostered, and the diversity of people's backgrounds and circumstances will be positively valued.
We therefore treat everyone on the basis of their talent and cultural capability, and nothing else.
Community Brands aims to achieve equality by removing any potential discrimination due to protected characteristics defined in the Equality Act 2010.
Additional factors
All persons hired will be required to
- Verify their identity
- Provide proof of the right to live and work in the UK
- Complete and satisfy any pre-employment checks
Community Brands
http://www.communitybrands.com
Saint Petersburg, United States
Dave Wirta
$500 million to $1 billion (USD)
1001 to 5000 Employees
Company - Private
Enterprise Software & Network Solutions
1998
