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AEM Business Analyst

Chicago

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AEM Business Analyst

What we are looking for:

The Business Analyst serves as a liaison between the business, product owners & technical team to enable business capabilities through technical solutions. This person works closely with the Product Owner and Technical Leads to help them understand and articulate their goals, objectives, and solutions. The BA is responsible for verifying technical requirements are accurate and following the DoR before sending it to the team for development. The BA understands system implications and dependencies are understood.

Supports product owners by helping them analyze the business domain, and by grooming/prioritizing the work backlog based on business value.

Before we continue to dive into the requirements for the role let’s talk about Why you should join Valtech?

Flexibility: We trust in the expertise, skills, and actions of our colleagues. That’s why we provide a flexible work schedule that supports work/life balance.

Career Advancement: We offer a career, not just a job. We invest in the personal and professional growth of every employee because we believe growth leads to both business impact and personal fulfillment.

Learning and Development: We foster a culture that encourages and promotes professional growth and development, with continuous learning through our in house LMS (Ask us about the Academy)

Benefits US:

  • Medical: Options starting at 100% medical coverage for employees, and we cover 85% for spouses, partners, and dependents
  • We contribute an annual $750 for employee only or $1,500 cash payment towards your family HSA
  • 401(k) Employer matching and immediate vesting
  • Flexible Paid Time Off under Valtech's policy to support your work-life balance
  • Up to 8 Weeks of paid Parental Leave
  • Home office set up stipend for new hires
  • Summer Fridays


Back to the role:

What you will do:

  • Identifies, defines & analyzes technical (and potential functional) requirements
  • Must be able to articulate requirements from both the technical & business user perspectives
  • Effectively communicates with the development team, and product owners/manager to analyze the needs of technical requirements
  • Analyzes and assesses requirements to identify upstream and downstream systems and process impacts to proactively communicate impacts, risks, and solutions to all cross-functional teams
  • Manages requirements traceability and tracks requirements status throughout the project/sprints
  • Develops user manuals associated with the applications and conduct user training as needed
  • Partners with the solutions (technical team) to understand the feasibility of requirements & how they would function
  • Proposes best practice–based solution approaches for business requirements, rooted in the capabilities of Adobe Experience Manager
  • Analyzes integrated end-user functionality into requirements for content management and external data providers
  • Supports backlog prioritization by understanding dependencies across requirements and epics
  • Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes and provides possible solutions
  • Contributes to the development of test scenarios/test cases and testing activities necessary to achieve quality and complete system implementations.
  • Ensures a smooth transition from Project to Support with necessary documentation.
  • Reports progress and impediments to the Product Manager (or in this instance someone else?)
  • Constant communication between the client, project manager, and tech team
  • Documentation – This person will be responsible for documenting, and ensuring that all project-related information is accessible and up-to-date for all stakeholders.
  • Gather and Analyze Requirements: Requirement gathering and issue tracking, ensuring that every client's voice is heard and documented effectively.

What you should have:

  • 4-6 years of experience working with technical teams and solving requirements
  • Confident approach to technical requirement gathering
  • Must be able to document user stories in JIRA
  • Must be able to lead & guide user flows & share with teams
  • Must have worked on large-scale implementations on Adobe Experience Manager Sites
  • Must be familiar with digital user experiences on AEM from the end user and content author perspective
  • Must be fluent in modern approaches to content management in AEM, including features for content reuse, component libraries, design systems, and digital asset management
  • Must be proficient in content operation processes, including governance, migration, and permission models
  • Experience with combinations of content and commerce is a plus
  • Experience with solutions of the broader Adobe Experience Cloud is a plus
  • Adobe Certified AEM Business Practitioner Expert certification is a plus

Valtech: The Experience Innovation Company

Technology has remade the way we live, work, and connect. Every day new products, services, and features are raising our expectations in every aspect of our lives. It’s become common for whole new categories and consumer behaviors to emerge and disrupt legacy businesses. And as it becomes easier to digitize, launch, and evolve, the rush to leap ahead is quickly becoming a race to parity. Now that technology has once again leveled the playing field, we believe the next frontier and greater value lives in the experience. And that means the world needs a new kind of company to unlock that value.

We are the Experience Innovation Company. We know that experience now touches every level of your enterprise. It may necessitate fundamental changes in organizational design or require complex integration throughout your tech stack. It may start by catalyzing data to create emotional moments of connection with your customers, inspiring loyalty and brand love. Or it may come to life by getting innovation initiatives out of presentation decks and into the hands of your customers. No matter where experience innovation begins in your company, we are organized to help clients break through silos, redefine success, and deliver exponential value.

Our values give our work purpose. We care deeply about the transformative impact technology can have on the world and honor our duty to approach it responsibly. We share our diverse identities, knowledge, expertise, and skills in an open dialog rooted in respect and inclusivity. And we dare to pursue uncommon solutions and simplify the complex.

Share: As a global company with diverse talent, we value and embrace open dialogue. We share our expertise, wisdom and full attention with our clients and colleagues

Dare: Entrepreneurship and curiosity is in our DNA. We thrive in ambiguity and simplifying the complex. We dare to bring together, connect, and combine the uncommon.

Care:
Technology has had a transformative impact on how we experience the world around us. We want to make the world a better place through the work we do.

Our unique culture allows us to orchestrate and connect teams to unlock powerful insights, value, and innovation at the intersection of diverse expertise and domains.

We believe diversity is essential to creating the best digital products & experiences. Valtech is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. We're proud to be an equal-opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, citizenship, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.

Accommodations are available on request for all aspects of the selection process.

So, if you are looking for your next challenge? Then this is your chance to join our team of exceptionally talented, creative, and innovative professionals working with composable Best-of-Breed technology platforms within the large-scale digital experience and e-commerce business area.

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