CMS Technical Analyst

Job Description

Role: Technical Analyst (CMS)
Location: Osterley, UK - Hybrid 3 days/week
Employment Type: 6 months Contract

The Role:

As a Technical Analyst you will take the lead on engaging with technical and business teams within client to analyze and define solutions to be delivered by our in-house custom built CMS.

You will be a key member of a multidisciplinary team and will work closely with members of the Metadata and Client application teams to define new integration requirements.

You will be comfortable engaging with stakeholders across the business to ensure the CMS caters for current and future requirements.

Key responsibilities:

● Take ownership of requirements and technical stories from inception through to implementation
● Identify and derive technical requirements in support of the development of the CMS tools
● Document processes and flows of CMS systems (internal and external) to assist the development of the CMS
● Maintain a broad and in-depth understanding of the strategic CMS requirements

● Work closely with architects and product to drive requirements and architecture designs ensuring they align to the product vision and engineering strategy
● Support the Technical Product Owner in ensuring the implementation aligns with the CMS product and technical strategy
● Engage with the wider stakeholder community in conjunction with the Technical Product Owner/Manager
● Proactively assist with training or development needs for marketing and editorial users
● Work closely with the Scrum Master and facilitate and participate in agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, daily stand-ups and retrospectives

Key skills/knowledge/experience:

● Experience with architecture or development.
● Experience of defining Non-functional requirements.
● Great understanding of APIs and experience using API discovery tools (e.g postman, RapidAPI).
● Proven experience of day-to-day agile technical analyst responsibilities (backlog refinement, planning sessions, showcases, capturing stories/cards/acceptance criteria etc.)
● Ability to interact confidently with developers, testers and dev-ops team members.
● Be a highly motivated self-starter. Must be comfortable working independently and proactively to achieve successful results.
● Experience of working with technical teams adopting Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban and XP).
● Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to present to different levels of stakeholders (including senior management).
● Ability to think creatively, deal with ambiguity and adapt to changing priorities
● Proven ability to prioritize workload in multi-project environments.