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Hybrid Business Analyst / Proxy Product Owner / Lead Analyst
Posted 5 months ago
About the role
- Business Analyst supporting clients in developing innovative solutions and enabling their agile development teams. Involves collaboration with stakeholders and requires strong analytical skills.
Responsibilities
- Eliciting, structuring, and refining requirements (e.g., through interviews, workshops, use cases, story mapping)
- Writing clear, actionable user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria
- Supporting the client-side Product Owner with prioritization, backlog maintenance, and preparation of refinement sessions
- Modeling and advancing business processes (BPMN, EPK), including quality and consistency checks
- Facilitating workshops, presenting results, and mediating between the business area and the development team
- Contributing to internal topics such as process optimization, knowledge transfer, and expansion of the skills matrix
Requirements
- Several years of experience as a Product Owner or Business Analyst in agile software projects
- Strong knowledge of Requirements Engineering, including methods & modeling (UML 2.x, ERM/SERM, OOA)
- Hands-on experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence; optionally with modeling tools (e.g., Innovator)
- Strong analytical skills and a structured, precise way of working
- Confident presence, strong facilitation/moderation skills, and enjoyment of communication
- High flexibility and the ability to quickly become familiar with new client environments
- Fluent German (C1), as many client requirements are in German
- Nice-to-have: experience working with the Federal Employment Agency (Bundesagentur für Arbeit)
- Current security clearance or willingness to undergo one
- Knowledge of quality assurance for business/functional concepts, testing/acceptance procedures, MDA, and software architecture
Benefits
- Influence over project selection
- Independence in time and location — up to 94% remote work per year possible
- Tailored professional development
- 14 training days plus €4,500 annual training budget
- Internal events such as Focus Days, summer event and Christmas party
- Attendance at professional conferences (counted as working time)
- Participation in communities such as Meetups, JUG, etc. (each counted as 2 hours of working time)
- Competent colleagues for productive exchange of ideas and experience
- Direct and transparent communication culture
- An open culture for addressing mistakes
- Health & Wellbeing: company supplementary health insurance and access to OpenUp, the platform for online psychological counseling and health coaching, to support physical and mental well-being
- Flexible and full overtime compensation
- Fixed salary (no variable components — you know what you will earn)
- 30 days of vacation
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