Technical Business Analyst

Technical Business Analyst

Location: London, Remote, UK
Role Type: Permanent (immediate hire)
Salary: £65k - £85k + Bonus + share options
Date: February 23

The Company:

NeuerEnergy is a London based technology company focused on CO2e mitigation and removal. NeuerEnergy applications and platforms enable their clients to plan, procure and manage their Net-zero targets with minimal price impact creating transparency and mitigating risk.

The company has a reputation of being a forward-thinking technical solutions business.
NeuerEnergy is a social impact and purpose driven venture with its primary vision being to support the global need to mitigate the existential threat posed by the rising global temperature and resultant climate crisis.

We are currently small and nimble, but in our opinion, employ the best and brightest technologists, energy experts and leadership. We are about to enter an exciting growth phase and are looking to build on our existing teams by hiring passionate and remarkable people to be part of our journey.

Job Description:
NeuerEnergy is looking for a Technical Business Analyst to work on our consulting projects, primarily designing RESTful API services.

Key responsibilities:
● Capture and curate business requirements (front and back end) in

JIRA/Confluence as EPICS, user stories working collaboratively with Product and
User Experience

● Write user stories, for developers including acceptance criteria written using
Gherkin syntax and walk through with development team to estimate

● Collaborate with Product and UX/UI to create optimal customer experiences both through UI and API

● Design RESTful web APIs for new and existing products in an ‘API first’ context, in accordance with strategic guidance provided by the technical architect.

● Collaborate with engineering team members and business stakeholders to:

• Design RESTful web APIs using Open API Specification
• Design Data Models
• Design event-driven processes in a distributed systems (micro-services)
• Specify contracts for messaging and web services, primarily using JSON

Schema and Open API Specification (Swagger), respectively.

• Validate/verify APIs by creating requests and asserting responses in tools such as Insomnia, Postman
• Document processes and data models, primarily using BPMN
• Define acceptance test scenarios in a DSL, such as Gherkin and generate

test data sets
● Support product owners and QA in acceptance testing
● Participate in agile team ceremonies
● Write customer facing documentation
● Coach / mentor junior analyst(s)
● Support data engineers responsible for on-boarding customers/data into platform

Minimum qualification, skills and experience:
● Proficient in use of SQL
● Understanding of REST and its application to web APIs, able to use tools like

Postman and Insomnia
● Understanding of HTTP headers, authentication, authorization and response codes
● Commitment to agile and lean development principles.
● Commercial experience as a technical business analyst across multiple different customers / projects
● Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills. Able to translate business needs to engineers, and explain complex details to non-technical people.

● Background in software development, including hands-on programming.
● Experience of writing user stories for agile development teams.
● Strong analysis and problem-solving skills.
● Experience documenting processes using standards such as BPMN and UML.
● Understanding of event driven workflows.
● Comfortable working with source code (Git) to manage API specifications.
● Able to work with a web API testing tool such as Postman, including crafting authentication tokens.

Desired Skills & Experience:
● Experience in some of Energy, Media, Telecoms and Utilities
● Experience of Data Centre Connectivity Products
● Prototyping and wireframing
● Understanding of microservices and event-driven / messaging architectures
● Experience of agile leadership such as a Scrum Product Owner or Scrum Master.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £55,000.00-£85,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Referral programme
• Store discount
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus scheme
• Quarterly bonus

Work Location: Remote

Reference ID: NEBA1