Description

Requirements Analyst

Who are we, and what do we do?
Corteva Agriscience is the only major agriscience company in the world completely dedicated to agriculture. Our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generation to come. Our inspiration is to be a market shaper, driving the next generation of agriculture products that help farms and farmers flourish and through partnering with society becoming the most trusted partner in the global agriculture and food community.

With a global footprint and over 22,000 employees, Corteva is building the future of agriculture and leading breakthroughs in the innovation and application of science and technology that will better the lives of people all over the world and fuel the progress of humankind.

Corteva Agriscience is searching for a Requirements Analyst (RA). The Requirements Analyst will work with business subject matter experts and stakeholders, as well as the Product Delivery teams, Architecture teams, Infrastructure teams and other IT related areas to gather information in order to create requirements for a specific process or system change.

Key Responsibilities - What you will do to help us grow!

As a Technology Expert they contribute by:

• Knowing the Business - works to develop understanding of business process to enable efficient elicitation of detailed requirements and translate those into technology capabilities that maximize business value.
• Knowing our Capabilities - develops and leverages broad knowledge of Corteva's enterprise digital capabilities to meet customer requirements.
• Knowing the Industry - maintains current technical knowledge to support rapidly changing technology and enable collaboration between business SMEs and technical team

As a Builder they contribute by:

• Eliciting Requirements - collaborates with BPE and other stakeholders to discover business, functional, and/or non-functional requirements in order to provide a basis for estimates, timelines, and promote implementation success.
• Crafting the Design - designs detailed requirements-based user stories that meet the team's definition of ready prior to committing to a sprint

As an Operator they contribute by:

• Documenting Requirements - determines appropriate documentation type, details, and approach to match the scope of work; maintains version control.
• Maintaining Requirements - participates in vendor delivery planning sessions, Quarterly Planning, Refinement, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Daily Stand Up and Retrospectives as part of an active versioning User Stories.

What are an RA's Primary Functions?

• Interview POs, BPEs, SMEs and others to elicit user requirements, create process models, and capture requirements within User Stories.
• Actively manage the Product and Sprint backlogs and ensure that there are two to three Sprints worth of Users Stories ready for each Sprint.
• Facilitate User Story Refinement and Sprint Planning Agile Events.
• Ensure each user Story meets the team's Definition of Ready prior to being Committed to a Sprint.
• Identify any problems with the current technical solutions within capabilities and identifying ways to improve those areas.
• Work closely with the Agile Delivery Lead to develop acceptance criteria for User Stories.
• Perform periodic quality checks.
• Assist in training end users as needed.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Experience - What you'll bring to the table!

Education

• A bachelor's degree is preferred but not required. Equivalent experience within computer science, data science, information science or related field will also be considered.

Experience/Skills

• 3-5 years of IT related experience and/or requirements gathering.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Interpersonal and consultative skills.
• Facilitation skills.
• Analytical thinking and problem solving.
• Being detail-oriented and capable of delivering a high level of accuracy.
• Organizational skills.
• Knowledge of business structure.
• Stakeholder analysis.
• Requirements engineering.
• Costs benefit analysis.
• Processes modeling.
• Understanding of networks, databases and other technology.

Let's peek at just a few of the advantages to working at Corteva and how you can grow your wellbeing, health, and future.

• Strike a better work-life balance with robust time off benefits including paid maternity, paternal and family illness leave.
• Prepare for your future with our competitive retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement program, and more.
• Enjoy access to health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
• And much, much more.

Take the next step to #GrowWhatMatters in your career with Corteva and apply today. We look forward to seeing your application.