Business Analyst

Proteus Europe is searching for a Business Analyst available to work in a short term contract for one of our clients in Belgium.

Our Client:-
Are a globally respected consultancy company who operate at the highest levels of service and successful delivery. They have a track record for delivering projects on time with customer satisfaction as their first priority. They set high standards and as such working with them also reflects on your high standards of service and programming ability.

Your New role:-

Business Analyst

Environment Development Tool(s) and Platform(s)
- ERwin Data Modeling
- Windows OS + MS Office
- ETL tool: Informatica PowerCenter 9.1
- Teradata
- Oracle
- Jira

Primary Tasks and responsibilities
Working together with other business analyst translating user stores gathered from the business into technical stories/requirements
Working with functional modelers defining impact on data warehouses and data marts
Defining acceptance criteria for the technical stories so they can be tested

More generic tasks:
- Analyzes business processes and helps define and document business requirements
- Identifies compliance risks and communicates to appropriate level of management.
- Applies procedures and processes effectively in compliance with JandJ IT standards.
- Tests and troubleshoots new software or enhancements to existing software to ensure solutions are delivered with quality, on-time, and in accordance with business requirements.
- Troubleshoots and facilitates the resolution of issues with existing platforms and takes pro-active actions to avoid issues to occur.
- Participates in technical design, contributing insights and ideas that help translate business needs into solution specifications.
- Recommends solutions to management that balance the competing needs for innovation and standardization/process harmonization, leveraging targeted research.
- Builds productive relationships and networks with business partners by listening, clarifying, and responding effectively to questions and problems.
- Gains an understanding of business opportunities and challenges and identifies potential solutions that can add business value.
- Manages to milestones by identifying critical project issues such as resource needs and contingencies.
- Optimizes existing technology by identifying new ways to provide value to the business partner group

Your Skills and experience:-

Essential Skills:-
- Strong communication skills in English, both verbal and in writing
- Analysis, design of warehouse solutions (+5 years)
- Capable of performing to the bone analysis in a short time
- Capable of writing precise and complete documentation
- Eager

Technical requirements
- Experience in data warehousing, data marts and BI/Visualization
- Teradata
- Hadoop and related tools ecosystem (Sqoop, Pig, Impala, Hive, )
- Informatica Power Center or any ETL Knowledge is a plus to have
- Knowledge of Teradata LS LDM

Non-Technical profile requirements:
- Experience with agile way of working - scrum
- Experience with modelling tools and techniques (ERWIN)
- Accepts personal responsibility for client satisfaction;
- Strong tracking, coordination and project planning skills;
- Establishes and manages engagement objectives, expectations and quality plan;
- Ability to identify and implement process and/or application improvements;
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
- Must be able to work on multiple simultaneous tasks with limited supervision;
- Quick learner, motivated self-starter;
- Excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills;
- Able to follow change management procedures and internal guidelines;

Methodology/Certification requirements:
- Master and/or Bachelor Degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Chemistry or Bioinformatics OR equivalent through experience. Advanced course work in technical systems plus continued education in technical disciplines is preferred;
- Additional certification is a plus
- Language proficiencies - English spoken and written - Dutch is a plus 
- extension in 2018 possible

Proteus Europe operates in partnership with our candidates by building strong and lasting relationships at all levels.

If you apply for this role, we will:

- Contact you within one week to discuss your current situation and suitability for this role.
- Keep searching for other suitable positions should this role not be right for you.
- Keep you informed at every stage of the recruitment process.
- Actively follow up with our client on your behalf to gain useful feedback throughout the process.