Tech Business Analyst

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Our vision is to digitize the global commodities trading industry. VAKT is building a platform underpinned by Blockchain that will ultimately disrupt the commodities markets.  We are a uniquely placed start-up, backed and well-funded by a consortium of Oil Majors (BP, Shell, Chevron,Total, etc), Banks (ABN-AMRO, Société Générale, ING) and Trading Houses(Gunvor, Mercuria). 

The Tech Business Analyst will work closely with customers and participants to ensure that the development of the platform meets their business needs, liaising with the domain engineers building the platform to connect requirements and implementation. The Tech Business Analyst will be expected to research, outreach and make decisions about priorities to ensure the success of the platform. The ideal candidate would be someone with a have a strong agile background who is always eager to learn new things and is able to capture and understand client problems and requirements. 

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Our culture

• We have an innovative mindset, keeping ahead of technology evolution with a desire to learn new technologies.
• We have a startup environment with no top-down hierarchy. We trust you and expect you to make changes
• We have a strong sense of ownership and take initiative (while empowering others to do the same)
• We put people first
• We appreciate transparency through open access to information
• We are not afraid to challenge the status quo
• We are a multicultural and international team

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Responsibilities  

• Understand the needs and requirements of Customers; 
• Collaborate with Development Team in order to prioritize features; 
• Cooperate with the Project Manager in project planning; 
• Write the functional and technical specifications that serve as a reference for the Development Team. 

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‍Key Skills and Experience 

Required: 

• Fluent in English; 
• Working to understand the existing business environment, business needs and eliciting business requirements from stakeholders both internally and externally at all levels of seniority utilizing; 

• Experience in using a variety of techniques to get and communicate requirements; 
• Experience in using prioritization techniques; 
• Skilled in questioning assumptions and requests; 
• Ability to translate the vision into prioritised deliverable goals/stories; 
• Active leadership and co-facilitation of Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Showcases, Planning sessions, Iteration planning and kick-off, and Story kick-off, ongoing desk-checks and story sign off; 

• Develop and manage Scrum sprint backlog (Epics, Stories, etc.); 
• Develops prototypes to test out ideas; 
• Resilient and proactive with a strong delivery focus; 
• Good communication/influencing skills. 

Desired: 

• Knowledge of the commodities markets (Esp Oil and Gas) and/ Or Trade Finance; 
• High level technical understanding of some of: infrastructure, Enterprise architecture, Distributed Ledger, UI/UX. 

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What else we offer

• State of the art software development. We follow best practices and embrace open source.
• We work in a “Remote First” model, so you will mostly work from home and occasionally meet up with your team at the office. However, if you prefer to go to the office, we are open to that too… whatever works for you.
• Equipment - We give every employee a MacBook, a large external monitor and the gadgets you require to do your job
• Work Setup (home) - We will help in your workstation setup (e.g. desk, chair)