Software Analyst

Software Analyst

Job Description

The Software Analyst supports the Manufacturing & Engineering Software Procurement team by managing the lifecycle of commercial software assets across assigned product portfolios. This role partners closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Finance, and suppliers to ensure compliant, cost effective, and intentional software investments. The person in this role will serve as a liaison between all the groups above.

Key responsibilities include reviewing and fulfilling software requests, analyzing license usage and capacity, supporting renewals and negotiations, maintaining accurate spend and entitlement data, and identifying optimization and cost avoidance opportunities. The analyst contributes to forecasting, budgeting, and reporting, and helps drive standard processes for software selection, procurement, and delivery.

The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, understands enterprise software licensing models, and is comfortable working across technical and financial stakeholders in a complex manufacturing and engineering environment.

The client will consider recent grads with exceptional communication skills and the right drive and willingness to learn, willing to train the right person up. This person will not be doing any software programming. It is a liaison which will work with different groups including software teams, thus importance of communication skills.

Major Purpose:
Works on a product team and supports systems and software deployment and/or maintenance by planning its work, coordinating with others to deliver functionality on a system of moderate complexity. The role relies on journey-level knowledge and experience on a single software package (SAP, ERP, IFS, PTC, etc.). This role is expected to develop simple solutions to solve well-defined problems with guidance from more senior team members or Scrum Master. May assign, coordinate and review portions of the work to support personnel; Has proficiency in one functional area of scope; Delivers slightly more complex software use- cases.

Major Duties:
Builds the work needed to implement functionality from the product backlog (managed by the product owner).
Determines the size of user stories.
Unit-tests software, creates automated test scripts and executes all other testing-related tasks.
Tests deliverables against a user story's acceptance tests.
Executes necessary documentation, as directed, or needed.
Follows industry-standard agile software design methodology for development and documentation.
Works closely with other team members to ensure that features meet business needs; Works collaboratively with infrastructure, security and other partners.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge:
Understanding of applications development environment, database, data management and infrastructure capabilities and constraints.
Analytical skills.
Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions.
Excellence in verbal and written communication forms with emphasis on persuasive communication, tact and negotiation.
Business process knowledge of assigned area(s) and/or function(s).

Education:
Degree in an Engineering/Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)
Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. - University Degree (4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience:
Work experience in a team environment. (1 - 3 years)
Previous experience in programming/software development/data analyst. (1 - 3 years)
Experience working in an Agile Environment (1 - 3 years)

Notes:
Onsite

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.