Business analyst

Company Description

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

Job Description

General Activities

• Provide services covering analysis, design, testing, training, deployment, and hosting-related work for production information systems.
• Deliver studies, evaluations, and reports of business, functional, technical, and quality-related nature.
• Support procurement activities related to IT systems and services.

Analysis Activities

• Conduct analysis of business, functional, and technical needs, requirements, and specifications.
• Analyse stakeholders, organisational structures, business processes, data flows, and business models.
• Design and model information systems architecture and functional components.
• Perform workload analysis, estimation, and costing (e.g. WBS creation).
• Support information systems project and portfolio planning, including risk and cost/benefit analysis.
• Produce documentation (user guides, process descriptions, training materials, etc.).
• Define and provide quality plans, SLAs, contracts, and evaluation frameworks.
• Participate in testing and acceptance of supplier deliverables.

Project Management & Quality Assurance

• Define and execute quality, test, and acceptance procedures and criteria.
• Conduct quality assessments and ensure compliance with established standards.
• Support and contribute to the execution of project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, Agile).
• Follow up on project progress and ensure deliverables meet agreed timelines and quality levels.
• Participate in working groups, progress meetings, and business/user sessions.
• Act as a liaison between the business and technical project teams.

Qualifications

• Master’s diploma & 10 years of experience
• Working knowledge of English or French: B2 level or higher
• Expertise in information systems architecture, business and functional analysis, software design, testing, training, acquired through information systems’ implementation and maintenance.
• Experience in software development as well as deployment and hosting-related activities.
• In-depth knowledge of methodologies, processes, tools and frameworks for software development (e.g. Agile/Scrum, iterative waterfall, etc.), design and modelling (e.g. prototyping, design patterns, use cases, BPM/BPMN, UML, etc.).

Professional experience in the following areas:

• Business, functional and technical analysis
• Quality procedures
• Conducting studies in the design and building of IT systems (e.g. quality, security, requirement analysis, technical or functional domain)
• IT project management methodologies (e.g. PRINCE2, PMM4EP/ENGAGE, etc.), with IT governance and management frameworks (e.g. COBIT, etc.) and with analysis tools (mind mapping, root cause analysis, etc.)
• Application of analytical methodologies and techniques

Desirable skills in the following areas:

• Ability to communicate with management and staff at all levels
• Tact and diplomacy
• Capable of working in an international/ multicultural environment
• Ability to work independently as well as in team, through a methodological approach
• In-depth knowledge in information systems and specific functional areas
• Well-developed drafting, written communication, and feed-back gathering skills
• Customer focused
• Ability to work with changing technologies and environments
• Rapid self-starting capability

Additional Information