Company Description
Fastmarkets is an industry-leading price-reporting agency (PRA) and information provider for global commodities, providing price data, news, analytics and events for the agriculture, forest products, metals and mining and new-generation energy markets.
Fastmarkets’ data is critical for customers seeking to understand and predict dynamic, sometimes opaque markets, enabling trading and risk management. Fastmarkets is a global business with a history dating back to 1865 and is built on trust and deep market knowledge. It has more than 600 employees spread across global locations in the UK, US, China, India, Singapore, Brazil, Belgium, Finland and beyond.
Job Description

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is also important as well as someone who is happy to work flexibly.

Fundamentals

• Ability to demonstrate extensive commercial experience across a wide range of projects.
• Extensive experience of implementing headless CMS - preferably Kontent.ai - and content creation.
• Business knowledge of news, pricing and commodities.
• Experience of large-volume data migration from legacy to new applications.
• Able to analyse large data sets for analysis, cleansing and transformation.

General skills

• Ability to operate within different environments and work with varied processes, stakeholders, and delivery challenges.
• Experience of working on projects with third parties including product vendors and implementation partners.
• Mindset of collaboration and teamwork for delivery as part of remote teams and able to build relationships with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to produce high-quality documentation appropriate for business and technical stakeholders.
• Attention to detail: able to analyse a problem from every angle and validate assumptions.

Technology

• Experienced the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to test, go-live and post-go-live support and documentation.
• Able to demonstrate a solid understanding of the fundamentals of software development, SaaS and Azure-based cloud infrastructure.
• Considers information security and compliance requirements during analysis and
• design and rigorously tracks their implementation.
• Experience of working in a hybrid Waterfall and Agile delivery environment. Previous experience acting as a Scrum Master to facilitate Scrum events is desirable.
• Experience with identifying, specifying, and testing new or modified system interfaces and feeds e.g., APIs, JSON, HTML etc.
• Experience of projects built in Microsoft technologies and Azure e.g. Blob storage.
• Practical experience of using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro and Lucid Charts.

If you’re excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don’t perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.
Additional Information

YOU’VE READ A LITTLE ABOUT US – NOW IT’S OVER TO YOU!

If you like what you’ve read so far and think you can see yourself as a Fastmarkets person, it’s time to fill in your application form. This form is an important part of the selection process: it’s used to determine whether or not you’ll be chosen to have an interview and acts as a basis for the questions we’ll ask you on the day.
It’s vital that you try to capture all the relevant information we have asked for on the form so we can get a good feel for who you are and why you’re great

THE ROLE

The Technology Business Analyst (Tech BA) will be a key member of a project team to implement a new Content Management System (CMS) to replace multiple legacy CMS. They will work with a broad stakeholder group of internal Fastmarkets teams, the product vendor and implementation partner to deliver the target state and business benefits. They will also support discovery work to shape the next project phase of this multi-year initiative.

During the first phase, they will support every stage of the project lifecycle through:

• Discovery
• Design
• Configuration
• Integration
• Migration
• Testing
• Rollout
• Post go-live support

This role demands a combination of strong data analysis and technical skills, effective communication and the ability to navigate the complexities of a dynamic environment from both a technology and a stakeholder perspective.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Key Interfaces

• Global Head of Editorial and Pricing
• Global Head of Analytics
• Head of Content and Pricing Operations
• Pricing and Content Operations Specialists and Production Specialists
• Editors, Reporters, Analysts and Economists
• Product Directors
• Product Managers
• Engineering Managers
• IT Operations
• Information Security officers
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Programme Managers
• Project Managers
• Software Engineers
• QAs
• Scrum Masters

Qualifications
We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully.
If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on…