Job Description
The Sr. BA, Product Development will develop a productive partnership with business stakeholders at all levels and support the Manager, Product Owner to guide product development toward delivery of integrated, efficient, and intuitive business systems.
Position Summary: The Sr. BA must have experience designing, implementing and supporting applications and services, to support Motion Pictures Production. He or she will bring that experience to bear, as well as build a deep understanding of current and future technologies associated with the Studio businesses they support; they will be seen as an expert by Studio Technology and business partners alike. He or she will identify current and future business needs and determine how best to meet those needs. This includes working with other Studio application product and technology teams to gather requirements for new solutions, working
with specialists to define intuitive solutions, understanding business processes, and systems and staying abreast of current trends in the marketplace.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Partner with Sr. Business Analysts/Product Teams for other Studio Applications to liaise business requirements from stakeholders to all necessary parties
- Partner with Sr. Business Analysts/Product Teams for other Studio applications to identify data sources and required elements for new data connections
- Act as the primary point of contact for the development and maintenance of 3rd party vendor reporting software (PaaS)
- Define, groom and accept user stories in JIRA based on stakeholder requests for new and existing reports
- Administration duties to include regular user access audits and projects related to maintenance of cloud instance infrastructure, manage relationships with vendors
- Partnering with report development team, design dashboards, dossiers, and other visualizations within BI tools to meet business needs
- In close partnership with the Manager and business stakeholders, develop the product vision and product roadmap
- Define and measure KPIs that support project business case(s) and occurring spend
- Communicate all successes, opportunities and risks in formal communications
To be successful in this role, experience managing a diverse portfolio of applications that are heterogeneous in nature is necessary, for example: - 3rd party vendor apps, in-house apps, financial systems, workflow management software, reporting platforms, artificial intelligence, and proof of concepts as well as mature applications.
- Strong written and verbal skills plus the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical audiences at all experience levels is essential.
- The ability to present complex processes and abstract ideas in meaningful visual representations is important in this position.
- Strong project management skills, resource and timeline management, risk assessment, and the ability to work with external contractors and consultants is core to performing well this role.
Required Skills & Experience
- 7 plus years of experience performing business analysis within a large enterprise covering both business and information technology domains
- 5 plus years of Product Ownership experience
- 3 plus years of experience using Agile SCRUM methodology
- 3 plus yrs of experience using MicroStrategy (MCE/cloud preferred) or another BI tool
- BA/BS Required
Location: Burbank, California- resource will need to be onsite 4 days per week Monday-Thursday.
Temp will be supporting BI Architect and will support Product BI side of business.
Supporting BI Architect and will support Product BI side of business.
Experience with databases and handling to prep for visualizations
BI Tool experience is most important
Studio experience is ideal, data analytics is all studio typed metrics
Would be ideal for individual to be familiar with studio production life cycle
Ideal to have finance experience
- MicroStrategy BI experience-BI minded data analytics
- Studio experience is ideal, data analytics is all studio typed metrics
- Ideal experience is someone who has worked withing a studio production life cycle
- Ideal to have finance experience
-Must be good at communicating at multiple levels (interacting with developers, studio personnel)
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 1st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.