Sphera, the former Operational Excellence and Risk Management business of IHS Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability processes. Our software allows customers to automate processes, monitor emissions, ensure regulatory compliance, and track chemical inventory throughout a manufacturing cycle. We were recently spun off by IHS and acquired by Genstar Capital, essentially positioning us as a $100MM start up.
At Sphera it's more than just a job. If you want to help change the world and challenge the status quo while growing your career, you'll find some interesting opportunities to pursue with us.
Responsibilities:
- Work with key project stakeholders and the customer to understand the overall business vision for a project and translate that into actionable objectives.
- Provide a communication conduit between the business and technical community by interpreting and translating business needs into technical requirements.
- Comprehend and document requirements from multiple stakeholders and conceptualize solutions.
- Develop deep understanding of current systems and processes and analyze impact of changes as new solutions are introduced to the environment.
- Collaborate directly with business owners, sales, QA and development teams.
- Collaborate with other BSAs to manage inter-dependencies across the product suite.
- Assist in developing and validating test plans.
- Develop and provide product presentations and/or training to existing customer, and potential customers.
Qualifications:
- Must be able to qualify and maintain clearance to work on a U.S. military installation.
- Communicate excellently with diverse groups of people inside and outside of the organization.
- Ability to envision, document and clearly communicate end-to-end solutions.
- Skilled in creating process flows and swim lane diagrams in Visio.
- Ability to forge relationships with various business and technical team members and managers.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability to deliver planned results
- Extremely detail-oriented
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Knowledge of development processes and methodology including Agile and Waterfall techniques
- Aptitude to understand business impact and business value of technical solutions.
- Experience working with Department of Defense is a plus.
- Knowledge of Environmental and/or Logistics Processes is a plus.
- Ability to travel up to 25% of working time
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a technology related field.
- Equivalent work experience may be substituted for education.
- Minimum 7+ years’ experience in an IT organization, preferably in software development.
At Sphera we're working together to help our customers keep their people safe, their products sustainable, and their operations productive. The best people don't want a job, they want to change the world, and themselves. The best want to challenge the status quo. The best want to grow themselves and their careers. Come check out what Sphera has to offer and how that matches up with your career goals.
Sphera is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.