MBR partners are working with our London based consultancy clients whose focus is within the telco, media and technology vertical. They have been around since 2008 and typically support blue chip business on strategy and digital transformation together with software engineering. With this diverse portfolio, we are looking for a Technical Business Analyst to join the Software Engineering department.

Your primary role will be to design and create RESTful API services.

Key responsibilities:

• Capture and curate business requirements and system documentation in JIRA/Confluence as EPICS, user stories, API design, API enhancements
• Write estimate-able user stories, in JIRA, for developers including acceptance criteria
• Design RESTful web APIs for new and existing products in an API first' context, in accordance with strategic guidance provided by the technical architect
• Collaborate with engineering team members and business stakeholders to:

Design RESTful web APIs
Design Data Models
Design event-driven processes in a distributed systems (micro-services)
Specify contracts for messaging and web services, primarily using JSON Schema and Open API Specification (Swagger), respectively.
Validate/verify APIs by creating requests and asserting responses in Postman
Document processes and data models, primarily using BPMN
Define acceptance test scenarios in a DSL, such as Gherkin and generate test data sets
 

• Support product owners and QA in acceptance testing
• Participate in agile team ceremonies
• Coach/mentor junior analyst(s)
• Write Customer facing documentation
• Support data engineers responsible for on boarding customers to the data platform

Requirements

• Proficient in use of SQL
• Understanding of REST and its application to web APIs, able to use tools like Postman and Insomnia
• Understanding of HTTP headers, authentication, authorization and response codes
• Commitment to agile and lean development principles.
• Background in software development, including hands-on programming
• Commercial experience as a technical business analyst across multiple different customers/projects
• Comfortable working with source code (Git) to manage API specifications
• Able to work with a web API testing tool such as Postman, including crafting authentication tokens
• Experience of writing user stories for agile development teams
• Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
• Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills.
• Able to translate business needs to engineers, and explain complex details to non-technical people.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Prototyping and wireframing
• Experience of agile leadership such as a Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Master.

Posted Date: 02 May 2024 Reference: JSDB_0EA24938EB67E6B6231A920405936200__1666 Employment Agency: MBR Partners Contact: mano