Business Analyst

Business Analyst 

Bangalore, India

The Opportunity:  

Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.      

We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.     

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.  

Anthology is looking for a Business Analyst with a strong background in systems integrations requirements to help build scalable, predictable, high-quality, and high-performance integration solutions for our customers. You will help gather, document and review business requirements, build workflow process diagrams. You will work with a team of experienced Enterprise Architects, Technical Architects, and Developers and have an in-depth understanding of unique business needs, excellent communication skills with all levels of business stakeholders including executive management, and a commitment to excellence. You will work with business partners to understand business objectives and ensure that best practices are followed by the team to provide a successful technical solution. 

Specific responsibilities will include:  

• Working directly with customers to understand system integration and customization requirements 
• Driving identification of requirements across business units and identify impacts to system configurations, data migration and other project tasks 
• Documenting requirements in the form of user stories that are broken down into deliverable, iteratively developed functionality; determine scenarios and acceptance criteria to explain/demonstrate business requirements/specifications to the development team; provide business and user perspectives to the development team. 
• Working directly with the technical managers to ensure requirements sign off and timely delivery of the solutions 
• Communicating requirements to architects, developers, and other stakeholders 
• Working directly with the test team and assist with the creation of test plans relevant to integration use cases 
• Creating, managing, and updating backlog tasks within Azure DevOps 
• Contributing to training and support for other Business Analyst team member 
• Being a leader of continuous improvement. Defining improvements to business processes, seeking new approaches to business problems utilizing existing tools/products and innovations as appropriate 
• Understanding business strategy and business planning principles and applying with minimal guidance to assigned work 
• Understanding new and emerging technologies, their capabilities, and how to translate to technical specifications for purposes of design, build and integration 
• Helping validate customer UAT test conditions and results 
• Triaging and prioritizing testing, post-implementation, and production defects 
• Supporting technology release events including prior/during/post-deployment 
• Demonstrating tools and products to the user community and prospective stakeholders. Identifying opportunities to expand product adoption 
• Preparing 'as is' and 'to be' process workflows, identifying high-level gaps & differences. Properly setting expectations of prospective clients relative to platform functionality on the roadmap 
• Maintaining effective relationships with sponsors, stakeholders, and key partners 
• This role may require travel for specific customers and project phases (less than 5%) 

The Candidate: 

Required skills/qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, information technology or related field
• Demonstrated experience conducting presentations, conducting one-on-one and/or on-the-job training, classroom training and/or online/webcast training
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications

Preferred skills/qualifications: 

• 4 or more years working in project teams in software installation, implementation
• ERP and/or CRM experience
• Student Information System experience
• Financial Aid experience
• Relational database management including queries, reporting, and administration

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.     

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.