Business Analyst

About Playtech                                               

Founded in 1999, the company has a premium listing on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange and is focused on regulated and regulating markets across its B2B and B2C businesses. Both divisions leverage Playtech’s proprietary technology to deliver innovative products and services to ensure a safe, engaging and entertaining gaming experience. 

Playtech is the gaming industry's leading technology company delivering business intelligence-driven gaming software, services, content, and platform technology across the industry. 
Read more about who we are and what we do here: www.playtechpeople.com
 
Here at Playtech, we genuinely believe that people are our biggest asset. Diverse thoughts, experiences, and individual characteristics enrich our work environment and lead to better business decisions. Recognizing differences and ensuring our processes are transparent is the core of Playtech's overall commitment to responsible business practices. 

Ready to level up your career?

Playtech‘s GPAS unit is looking for a proactive Business Analyst with excellent communication and technical skills.

Your influential mission. You will...

• Document and translate business needs, and conduct stakeholder analysis.
• Elicit project and business requirements, and lead requirements review.
• Act as an interface between development/support teams and client/requestor.
• Assist at various levels of the project and help in task analysis.
• Document the projects by preparing functional specification documents and interface guides for the reference of end users.
• Work with the test team to ensure sufficient coverage.

Components for success. You...

• Possess a BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Have 3+ years of experience working in IT, particularly with complex backend systems.
• Demonstrate proven experience in eliciting requirements and testing.
• Possess knowledge of UML diagrams.
• Have an understanding of basic software architecture principles.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of client-server architecture.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of HTTP and WS protocols.
• Have experience in describing interfaces and interactions between system components.
• Possess solid experience in conducting technical discussions.

You'll get extra points for...

• Experience in gambling/gaming industry
• Software development or testing experience

Thrive in a culture that values...

• Opportunities to work with a product company.
• Professional growth.
• Educational possibilities.
• Competitive compensation.
• A warm and friendly attitude towards every specialist.

GPAS TEAM
Gaming Platform as a Service (GPAS) is Playtech’s exclusive distributed games delivery platform, currently hosting over 700 games. GPAS is a highly accessible, multi-tenant, scalable, distributed, and event-driven system written in Scala, utilizing the Pekko framework. We use Couchbase for hot storage and AWS S3/DynamoDB for cold storage, enabling us to handle nearly a billion transactions per day. Our complex solution supports a variety of slot and multiplayer games, with an architecture designed to extend support to other game types. We adopt the Scrum methodology to deliver new features on time.

Playtech is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to welcome everyone and create inclusive teams. We celebrate differences and encourage everyone to join us and be themselves at work.