Date: Feb 3, 2024 Location: Pune, IN Company: Springer Nature Group
Springer Nature opens the doors to discovery for researchers, educators, clinicians and other professionals. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals, platforms and technology solutions reach millions of people. For over 175 years our brands and imprints have been a trusted source of knowledge to these communities and today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood and used by our communities \xe2\x80\x93 enabling them to improve outcomes, make progress, and benefit the generations that follow. Visit: group.springernature.com and follow @SpringerNature Senior Business Analyst - DAS - IT, Pune
We\xe2\x80\x99re looking for talented Senior Business Analyst to join our team at Springer Nature. The job is based in Pune, Maharashtra and you will be working with team members and stakeholders in London/Berlin.
Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions, is the technology and publishing solutions arm of the Springer Nature Group. We leverage our insight in the publishing domain and acquire, produce and deliver content across media and markets using our Technology and Publishing Solutions. With a focus on technology driven solutions and deep insight in the publishing domain, Springer Nature Technology and Publishing Solutions offers a range of services that help our Group brand acquire, produce and deliver content in the most efficient ways possible. We are ISO 9001 certified, driven by over 1000 professionals in Technology, Research & Analysis and Marketing shared services.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment on the basis of merit alone, without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status
Job Location: 1201/1301, Building No. 5 (R3), Gerra Commercezone, Kharadi, Pune (Working in Hybrid Model)
Years of Experience: 8+ years
What we are looking for Educational Qualification: B.Sc., BCA, BCS, B.E., B.Tech, M.Tech, MCA and M.Sc. (Any Science/Engineering Graduate)
Springer Nature IT
Delivering scientific knowledge to millions every day is hard work. So we need your help. The Data & Analytics Solutions - IT team is responsible for providing the necessary technical and domain expertise required to create and maintain the databases and shared services for our end customers. Our flagship products namely SpringerMaterials, Experiments and ADIS Insight are built by a team of developers, QAs, BAs, UI & UX experts and SMEs, who collaborate to ensure easy accessibility of relevant data. We follow a problem statement and user experience driven approach to ensure the right data is available in the simplistic way for the scientific community.
The way we do business
We build our software incrementally, iteratively, and continuously, so you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to see new work go live to over four million visitors around the globe every week. Our flavor of agile has been heavily influenced by Agile and Kanban, and if something isn\xe2\x80\x99t working, we change it. Our work delivers value to both the business and our customers, our teams are cross-discipline: business analysts and the user experience teamwork with stakeholders to coordinate research and understand requirements, whilst our frontend developers and software engineers pair with quality analysts to develop the most robust solutions, and our platform engineers work across the organization to ensure our infrastructure never lets us down. We generally follow a mix of agile and lean practices with an overall philosophy towards continuous delivery. We\xe2\x80\x99ll rely on each and everyone\xe2\x80\x99s expertise to adapt and improve these processes to serve the team, project and company as best fit their current contexts.
Responsibilities:

• Work with stakeholders to understand our goals & vision, and identify business needs
• Pair with quality analysts and user experience designers to write stories that are clear, concise and comprehensible
• Communicate to the development team how the requirements are aligned with the business needs and \xe2\x80\x9cbig picture\xe2\x80\x9d goals and vision
• Collaborate and provide business analysis support to the product owner, business sponsors, SMEs and testers during development
• Identify and resolve issues with missing stories and conflicting requirements
• Unearth the root cause(s) of pain points, and validate business opportunities and problems
• Prioritize competing demands and obtaining buy-in from stakeholders
• Map, analyze and validate information flows within a complex organizational setting
• Analyze and capture processes in order to replicate, optimize or re-engineer (recognize pain-points, duplication or repetition and provide recommendations to eliminate)
• Facilitate workshops with a wide range of diverse stakeholders in the business
• Champion business analysis best practices and principles within the BA community
• Challenge and influence decisions; focusing on customer and business value

About You:

• Can demonstrate experience of working successfully with teams to deliver software
• Have excellent communication skills and are able to clearly articulate concepts and ideas; from both a technical and a business point of view
• Have a strong focus on high-quality customer experience and sustainable solutions
• Can demonstrate outstanding analytical ability and demonstrable experience of solving complex problems/issues
• Proven experience and the ability to manage and resolve conflict with stakeholders
• Experience working in a fast-paced, constantly changing and dynamic environment
• Able to use your drive, creativity and initiative to move the team and organization forward
• Proven experience of working successfully within Agile teams to deliver software
• Experience in driving continuous improvement and innovation across the team
• Have team-working as a priority and drive constant improvement on collaboration
• Be intellectually curious and motivated

Visit the Springer Nature Editorial and Publishing website at www.springernature.com/editorial-and-publishing-jobs for more information about our Research E&P career opportunities.