Urbn: Business Systems Analyst - Philadelphia, United States - URBN

URBN

Verified Company

Philadelphia, United States

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Urban Outfitters, Inc.

("URBN"), is a leading lifestyle products and services company which operates a portfolio of global consumer brands comprised of Anthropologie, BHLDN, Free People, Terrain, Urban Outfitters and Nuuly brands and the Food and Beverage division.

Urban Outfitters, Inc., is a Fortune 1000 company with $4 Billion in revenue.

Title
URBN Business Systems Analyst

Reports to
Senior Manager, Engineering Solution Delivery

Overview
The Business Systems Analyst (BSA) at URBN Inc. plays a pivotal role in the Solution Delivery group, supporting the development and delivery of omnichannel ecommerce products.

Working closely with Solution Delivery Team Leads, the BSA collaborates with various teams to optimize URBN's core platform and enterprise services, ensuring software quality, scalability, and completeness.

Responsibilities

Support 12 Scrum teams in technical solution design, grooming activities, and development as a Technical Product Owner in partnership with Platform Services System Analysts, Engineering Tech Leads and Enterprise Architects.
Act as a liaison between URBN's IT Organization and Engineering Group and multiple groups within the Technology Organization, including eCommerce Platform Services, Enterprise Order Management Systems, Merchandising Systems, and Inventory Management
Support the coordination of crossteam dependencies by understanding the incremental deliveries of downstream systems and how those dependencies affect the ability of the engineering teams to complete work.
Prioritize incoming inquiries, research issues across multiple functions and systems, perform root cause analysis, and recommend solutions to resolve low to moderate complexity issues.
Assess potential risk against delivery effort when evaluating business requirements and negotiating priorities with business and technology stakeholders.
Ensure the quality of and help maintain the URBN product backlog through Atlassian's JIRA issue and project tracking tool in partnership with Architecture and Engineering leads.
Steward the quality of URBN system architecture by advocating allocation towards technical debt, code cleanup, and test coverage during intermittent periods between feature releases.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience in IT/digital technology environment, with expertise in program/project management, data/system analysis, and technical requirements definition.
Wellrounded experience delivering integrated software solutions over complex system architecture and dependencies spanning multiple teams.
Adequate understanding of GCP (Google Cloud Platform) RESTful services, including experience with planning, integration, and delivery.
Exposure to Python programming language is advantageous.

Job Skills

Selfmotivated with a desire to seek answers to questions and solutions to problems independently.
Effective communication skills, coordinating across teams in a streamlined manner.
Ability to bridge consensus within an interdisciplinary team to ensure key decisions are made timely.

Education
Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent experience.

Location
Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)

Travel
No travel required

Urban Outfitters Inc.

provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

We believe strongly in fostering a safe, fair and respectful work environment. To ensure compliance with our non-discrimination and anti-harassment policies, we offer anti-harassment training to managers and employees.