Job Description

Company Description

About Fastmarkets


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 Purpose

The Technology Business Analyst (Tech BA), will bridge the gap between business needs and technology solutions, playing a crucial role in supporting and optimising our technology-driven solutions. The Tech BA will work on multiple deliveries across our digital platforms supporting Transformation projects as an enabler for consolidation and removing tech debt. They will help enhance our applications to streamline operations and support innovation across Fastmarkets.


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

Key Interfaces

Chief Technology and Information Officer (CTIO) Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Chief Operating Officer (COO) Chief Product Officer Heads of Editorial and Pricing Product Directors Product Managers Information Security officers Engineering Managers Site Reliability Engineering Technology Project Managers Developers QAs Scrum Masters

Qualifications

Knowledge, Experience and Skills

We are looking for an individual who is highly motivated, driven, and has a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team.

Fundamentals

Ability to demonstrate extensive commercial experience across a wide range of projects. Relevant business knowledge beneficial: commodities, pricing, news, editorial and analytics; Digital Platforms; Content Management Systems (CMS); Exchange Market data. Business Process Modelling: ability to break down complex process and data workflows and identify areas for improvement. Preferably a BSc degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Technology

Experience of projects built in Microsoft technologies and Azure. Practical experience of using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Miro, and Lucid Charts. Able to demonstrate a solid understanding of the fundamentals of software development, on-prem and Azure based cloud infrastructure. Considers Information Security and Compliance requirements during analysis and design and rigorously tracks their implementation. Experienced the end-to-end software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering to test, go live and post go live support and documentation. Experience of working in a hybrid Waterfall and Agile delivery environment. Awareness of the challenges of migrating data from legacy to new applications. Able to analyse large data sets for analysis, cleansing and transformation. Understanding of on-prem and Azure cloud based infrastructure architecture desirable. Experience of IT Service Delivery and InfoSec projects desirable.
General skills

Multi-industry experience, demonstrating an ability to operate within different environments and work with varied processes, stakeholders, and delivery challenges. A self-starter with excellent verbal and written communication skills to run workshops and produce high quality documentation appropriate for multiple stakeholders e.g. business, technical, C-suite etc. Mindset of collaboration and teamwork for delivery as part of remote teams and able to build relationships with business and technical stakeholders at all levels of the organisation e.g. editorial teams and pricing analysts. Attention to detail, able to analyse a problem from every angle and validate assumptions. Demonstrates a genuine interest in technology as well as new and emerging trends and tools.

Additional Information

Our values

Fastmarkets people come from all different walks of life. It's this mix of brilliant personalities, experiences and insights that gives us that warm, open, and friendly culture you can feel as soon as


you meet us. But however wonderfully different we all are, there are six things we all have in common - and they form our Fastmarkets values.


Created by our own employees to reflect some of the personal traits that Fastmarkets people have, our values are key to what makes our culture unique. They reflect who each of us are and they're embedded in everything we do.

Our values are:

METRICS DRIVEN. We use insights to improve our customers' experience and our business performance ACCOUNTABLE. We are accountable to ourselves and those we work with: we keep our promises and get things done GROWTH MINDSET. This value enables us to be nimble to the changing realities and operate with a sense of urgency INCLUSIVE. We are inclusive and respectful, celebrating each of us and giving everyone a deep sense of belonging with the desire to bring their best self to work every day. CUSTOMER CENTRIC. We are customer-centric in all that we do COLLABORATIVE. We are collaborative, able to work across teams and capitalise on the diversity

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.