Product Engineer

**About the role**:
The **Payroll** **Product Analyst** works to bring our strategy to life. This role will be responsible for defining clear and concise business requirements and communicating the requirements to all stakeholders of the project and wider delivery community.

The **Payroll Product Analyst** will conduct stakeholder interviews and research to define business solutions creating operational efficiencies and opportunities for business growth. A successful analyst is one who is highly skilled in terms of understanding and defining business processes, building solutions, communicating requirements, and controlling project scope. The Payroll Product Analyst is responsible for validating solutions during and after project delivery to ensure the solution has satisfied the business requirements and is in line with the strategy and vision.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Drive solutions and requests through to completion.
- Gather user requirements using standard BA documentation types and processes to develop and propose solutions.
- Evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- Communicate and collaborate with users to analyze information needs and functional requirements
- Work with users to define concepts under direction of leaders
- Serve as the conduit between the user community and product delivery (development & QA) team throughout the delivery / release cycle
- Collaborates with product delivery (development & QA) team and stakeholders to write features, user stories, based on requirements that include acceptance tests and criteria.
- Help the product team in reviewing and prioritizes backlog for Iteration (Sprint) Planning, including coordination of dependencies with others Product stream
- Participates in demo with primary responsibility of reviewing and accepting completed user stories. This includes validation that stories meet acceptance criteria and meets team's Definition of Done (DoD).
- Liaise between the business, technology teams and support teams
- Comply with the company’s Global IT Policies & Procedures
- Perform other duties as assigned

**Knowledge, skills abilities and experience**:

- Bachelor Degree in technical or business area.
- 3+ years of experience in business delivery roles
- 1+ years of experience working collaboratively with product and design teams
- Practical Experience with the Product assigned to the role will be an advantage
- Self-Starter that demonstrates discipline and motivation in all aspects of job performance. Strong troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to communicate functional and technical concepts to technical and non-technical audience.
- Must be able to work in a high-pressure team environment, handle multiple tasks and react quickly to issues.
- Partner closely with assigned business channels to understand specific business and technology needs and priorities
- Proven ability to effectively communicate with others to achieve desired results; must be approachable and open-minded
- Strong attention to detail.
- Work closely with developers in scrum teams to act as a point of contact for requirements clarifications
- Interact with large data sets to extract insights, validate decisions, and influence change
- Negotiate detailed requirement and solution design trade-offs.
- Demonstrable experience working in a global environment collaborating with international based colleagues throughout a wide range of time zones.
- Project management experience taking ideas from concept to launch

**Work environment**:
We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.

**DISCLAIMER**:
Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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