Business Analyst - ADL
About this role
Subsidiary
Aluminum Dynamics
Overview
We are seeking a Business Analyst who will also serve as Scrum Master for our Software Development team. This person will translate operational needs into clear, sprint-ready user stories, and will own the health of our Agile process — facilitating ceremonies, removing impediments, and keeping the team focused and delivering. They will learn our business and manufacturing processes, work directly with end users and developers, and maintain a consistent pipeline of refined work for upcoming sprints.
Responsibilities
• Meet with users, department leaders, and developers to understand business needs and operational challenges. • Learn the company's manufacturing processes, business rules, and software applications. • Convert requests into well-defined user stories with acceptance criteria, exceptions, dependencies, and expected outcomes. • Facilitate discovery and backlog-refinement discussions throughout each sprint. • Facilitate sprint planning, daily standups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. • Identify unclear, conflicting, or duplicate requirements and potential impacts on other systems or departments. • Create process flows, mockups, and supporting documentation when beneficial. • Track and communicate sprint progress, velocity, and burndown to stakeholders. • Assist with prioritization, user acceptance testing, and communication of completed changes.
Qualifications
Required
• Strong analytical, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills. • Ability to learn complex business and manufacturing processes. • Experience gathering and documenting business or software requirements. • Ability to write clear user stories and acceptance criteria. • Experience facilitating Agile ceremonies (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, reviews). • Comfortable working with both technical and nontechnical employees. • Willingness to spend time with end users in office and plant-floor environments. • Experience with Agile software development, manufacturing operations, or internally developed applications is preferred.
Preferred
• Scrum Master certification (CSM, PSM, or equivalent) preferred but not required. • Bachelor’s degree
Steel Dynamics, Inc., and all affiliated entities are equal opportunity employers.