Associate Business Analyst

At Savvas Learning Company, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team that makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe.
We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.

About You:

• You have a passion for building great products.
• You are curious to learn about how people do their jobs, and what is most important to them.
• You enjoy solving problems by breaking them into smaller pieces and sweating the details.
• You enjoy working across an organization with developers, product managers, product owners, and more.
• You are analytical and have demonstrated conceptual thinking skills.

As a Business Analyst, you would be responsible for participating in critical aspects of the Savvas’ flagship learning management system, Savvas Realize, and other applications within the Realize ecosystem.
You’ll work directly within a scrum team to define requirements, prioritize a backlog of groomed stories, perform acceptance testing, and ensure the general success of the team.

What You’ll Do:

• Analyze requirements from product, technology, and other stakeholders.
• Organize requirements into stories and acceptance criteria.
• Enable scrum team estimations by providing clarity on requirements.
• Facilitate technical design discussions by setting up meetings and providing the voice of the customer to the technical design team.
• Iterate with user experience and design teams as the development is ongoing.
• Prioritize backlog of epics, stories, maintenance items in accordance with business and technology priorities.
• Evaluate business processes and scrum practices to develop optimization strategies.
• Document and communicate the results of team meetings and deliverables to cross-functional team members and management.
• Analyze and allocate team resources along with other team leads.
• Perform user acceptance testing and ensure solutions meet business needs.
• Work with the project management team to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Keep up-to-date on the latest process and technology advancements to automate and modernize systems.
• Work with technical product managers to serve as a liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams to ensure that requirements are adequately translated into technical specifications, review recommendations and answer any outstanding questions.

What You’ll Need:

• Must have previous experience and or familiarity with software development practices.
• A bachelor’s degree, master’s degree a plus. Engineering, business or related field preferred; other degrees considered with additional experience.
• A history of leading and supporting successful projects.
• Outstanding verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
• Ability to determine target audience and create communications that are clear, concise and understandable.
• Ability to establish strong working relationships.

Our team touches every aspect of our business each day.
We work with development, quality, project management, and product owners, but because the nature of our work results in us acquiring subject matter expertise in the areas our teams work within, we also often work with content developers, customer support, sales, marketing, finance, and more to provide meaningful inputs to various business decisions. This role is a great stepping stone for various careers in software development and education technology!
Savvas Learning Company is a global education company that produces award-winning learning solutions that empower educators and engage students with the highest quality content.
Recognized as an industry leader, we serve millions of K-12 learners with innovative, student-centered educational programs that turn today’s classrooms into active learning environments. By embracing technology, personalized learning, and immersive experiences delivered across multiple platforms, we design our learning solutions to be more accessible and relevant to each student.
Our comprehensive solutions for core curriculum, and supplemental and intervention programs - supported by an array of professional development services - allow teachers to use data to inform classroom practices and tailor instructions to an individual’s abilities and learning styles.

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Savvas Learning Company provides access to a benefits experience created to offer our employees choice, flexibility, and the opportunity to save money for the future. Benefits include medical, dental, vision, tax-advantaged accounts, pharmacy, life insurance, disability insurance, matching 401(k), and paid time off. Our benefits are part of a total package that is carefully designed to support the total well-being of our employees.

Savvas Learning Company is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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