About Highspring
Highspring is a next-generation consulting and professional services firm. We deliver modern, agile, and forward-thinking solutions to organizations across North America. Our teams partner with leading enterprises to solve complex business challenges through technology, innovation, and delivery excellence.
At Highspring, we believe in empowering our people, fostering collaboration, and creating meaningful business impact. We invest in continuous learning, professional growth, and technical leadership to help our consultants thrive throughout their careers.
The Opportunity
Highspring is seeking a Functional Analyst to join a Digital Channels delivery team supporting large-scale web and mobile initiatives within a fast-paced Agile environment.
In this role, you will act as a functional analysis specialist, serving as a key bridge between business stakeholders, Product Owners, architects, quality teams, and delivery squads. You will help shape innovative digital solutions by translating business needs into clear functional requirements while ensuring alignment with customer experience objectives and operational realities.
What You'll Do
Functional Analysis & Documentation
- Understand business strategies, challenges, and operational realities to guide delivery teams toward effective digital solutions.
- Produce and maintain functional and technical documentation required for successful product delivery.
- Create functional specifications, technical specifications, use cases, business rules, and validation rules.
- Develop specifications for interfaces, APIs, screens, reports, files, and data processes.
- Document data flows, data schemas, processing logic, exceptions, and system messages.
- Contribute to application monitoring and logging requirements.
- Support the creation, maintenance, and evolution of technical documentation produced by architects and designers.
- Participate in analytics requirements gathering and KPI documentation.
Product Delivery & Backlog Support
- Work closely with Product Owners and delivery teams to define and clarify acceptance criteria.
- Ensure user stories are complete and ready prior to sprint execution.
- Contribute to backlog refinement and support the management of:
- Enablers
- Bugs
- Defects
- Technical debt remediation
- Spikes
- Tasks
- Challenge functional, UX, and content assumptions to ensure customer needs are properly addressed.
- Perform impact analysis for new features, product enhancements, and transformation initiatives.
Quality & Operational Readiness
- Act as a key contributor to overall product quality.
- Collaborate with quality teams on test strategy and test case definition.
- Ensure delivery readiness by validating the availability of required inputs such as architecture, content, UI, and analysis.
- Facilitate communication between business and technical teams when constraints affect delivery objectives.
- Participate in operational readiness activities, including:
- Stability
- Monitoring
- Logging
- Accessibility
- Automation
- Documentation
- Security
- Quality assurance
- Post-production support
- Identify and escalate blockers, risks, and issues proactively.
Communication & Collaboration
- Maintain clear, concise, and up-to-date communication with delivery pods and stakeholder groups.
- Ensure effective information sharing across teams.
- Support delivery tracking activities and project reporting.
- Contribute to team alignment around priorities, objectives, and delivery commitments.
- Maintain project documentation and collaboration tools, including JIRA, Confluence, and API repositories.
What You Bring to the Table
- Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent professional experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in functional analysis supporting large-scale web and mobile digital initiatives.
- Experience delivering solutions in Agile environments using Scrum and/or SAFe frameworks.
- Strong understanding of digital ecosystems and customer-facing platforms.
- Demonstrated experience performing functional, technical, and application analysis within complex organizations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Results-oriented mindset with a strong commitment to quality and delivery timelines.
Core Skills Required
- Functional Analysis
- Technical Analysis
- Business Requirements Documentation
- Acceptance Criteria Definition
- Impact Analysis
- API Specification
- Data Modeling and Data Flow Documentation
- Agile Delivery (SAFe / Scrum)
- Quality Assurance Collaboration
- Risk and Issue Management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence)
Our Stack
- Agile Delivery Frameworks: Scrum, SAFe
- Collaboration Tools: JIRA, Confluence
- Documentation: Functional Specifications, API Definitions, Use Cases
- Digital Platforms: Web and Mobile Applications
- Operational Readiness: Monitoring, Logging, Security, Accessibility, Automation
Why Join Highspring?
- Work alongside highly skilled consultants on impactful digital transformation initiatives.
- Contribute to large-scale web and mobile delivery programs.
- Access ongoing professional development, mentoring, coaching, and learning opportunities.
- Collaborate within a supportive and knowledge-driven environment.
- Grow your career through challenging engagements and continuous learning opportunities.
À propos de Highspring
Highspring est une firme de consultation et de services professionnels de nouvelle génération. Nous accompagnons des organisations de premier plan à travers l'Amérique du Nord en leur offrant des solutions modernes, agiles et axées sur les résultats.
Chez Highspring, nous croyons au développement continu de nos talents, à la collaboration et à l'innovation. Nous investissons dans l'évolution professionnelle de nos équipes afin qu'elles puissent générer un impact concret pour nos clients tout en poursuivant leur propre croissance de carrière.
L'opportunité
Highspring est à la recherche d'un(e) Analyste fonctionnel(le) pour contribuer à la réalisation d'initiatives numériques d'envergure dans un environnement Agile axé sur le web et le mobile.
Vous agirez à titre d'expert(e) en analyse fonctionnelle et jouerez un rôle clé entre les parties prenantes d'affaires, les Product Owners, les architectes, les équipes qualité et les équipes de livraison afin de transformer les besoins d'affaires en solutions numériques performantes et innovantes.
Ce que vous ferez
Analyse fonctionnelle et documentation
- Comprendre la stratégie, les enjeux et la réalité opérationnelle des secteurs d'affaires afin d'orienter efficacement les équipes technologiques.
- Produire et maintenir la documentation fonctionnelle et technique requise.
- Rédiger les spécifications fonctionnelles, les spécifications techniques, les cas d'utilisation, les règles d'affaires et les règles de validation.
- Produire les spécifications relatives aux interfaces, API, écrans, rapports, fichiers et traitements de données.
- Documenter les flux de données, les schémas de données, les exceptions et les messages système.
- Participer à la définition des mécanismes de surveillance et de journalisation applicative.
- Contribuer à la création et à l'évolution de la documentation produite par les architectes et concepteurs.
- Participer à l'analyse des besoins analytiques et à la documentation des indicateurs de performance (KPI).
Soutien à la livraison et au backlog
- Collaborer avec les Product Owners et les équipes de livraison afin de définir et enrichir les critères d'acceptation.
- S'assurer que les histoires utilisateur sont prêtes avant le début des sprints.
- Participer au raffinement du backlog et à la gestion des éléments suivants :
- Enablers
- Bogues
- Défauts
- Corrections de dette technique
- Spikes
- Tâches
- Valider et remettre en question les approches fonctionnelles, UX et de contenu afin d'assurer une expérience client optimale.
- Réaliser les analyses d'impact liées aux nouvelles fonctionnalités et aux initiatives de transformation.
Qualité et mise en production
- Agir comme contributeur clé à la qualité des produits livrés.
- Collaborer avec les équipes qualité dans la définition des stratégies et cas de tests.
- Valider la préparation des initiatives avant leur prise en charge par l'équipe de livraison.
- Faire le lien entre les équipes d'affaires et les équipes techniques lorsque des contraintes influencent les besoins.
- Participer à l'opérationnalisation des solutions livrées, notamment en matière de :
- Stabilité
- Surveillance
- Journalisation
- Accessibilité
- Automatisation
- Documentation
- Sécurité
- Assurance qualité
- Soutien postproduction
- Identifier et escalader rapidement les risques, enjeux et blocages.
Communication et collaboration
- Maintenir une communication claire, concise et à jour avec les équipes de livraison et les partenaires.
- Assurer une circulation efficace de l'information.
- Participer aux activités de suivi de livraison et de reddition de comptes.
- Favoriser l'alignement des équipes sur les objectifs et priorités.
- Maintenir à jour les outils de collaboration et de documentation tels que JIRA et Confluence.
Ce que vous apportez à l'équipe
- Baccalauréat dans un domaine pertinent ou expérience équivalente.
- Minimum de 5 années d'expérience en analyse fonctionnelle dans des projets numériques web et mobiles d'envergure.
- Expérience démontrée dans des environnements Agile utilisant Scrum et/ou SAFe.
- Bonne compréhension des écosystèmes numériques et de l'expérience utilisateur.
- Solide expérience en analyse fonctionnelle, technique et applicative dans des organisations complexes.
- Excellentes habiletés de communication et de collaboration.
- Grande capacité d'analyse et de résolution de problèmes.
- Orientation résultats et respect des échéanciers.
Compétences clés requises
- Analyse fonctionnelle
- Analyse technique
- Documentation des requis d'affaires
- Définition des critères d'acceptation
- Analyse d'impact
- Spécifications d'API
- Documentation des données et des flux de données
- Livraison Agile (SAFe / Scrum)
- Collaboration avec les équipes qualité
- Gestion des risques et enjeux
- Communication avec les parties prenantes
- Outils Atlassian (JIRA, Confluence)
Notre environnement
- Cadres de livraison Agile : Scrum, SAFe
- Outils collaboratifs : JIRA, Confluence
- Documentation : Cas d'utilisation, spécifications fonctionnelles, définitions d'API
- Plateformes numériques : Applications web et mobiles
- Pratiques opérationnelles : Surveillance, journalisation, sécurité, accessibilité et automatisation
Pourquoi rejoindre Highspring?
- Participer à des initiatives stratégiques de transformation numérique.
- Collaborer avec des professionnels expérimentés et passionnés.
- Accéder à des occasions continues d'apprentissage, de mentorat et de perfectionnement.
- Évoluer dans un environnement collaboratif axé sur le partage des connaissances.
- Développer votre carrière au sein d'une firme en croissance offrant des mandats stimulants.
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