Job description

At Grape Up our mission is leveraging technology to drive software innovation.

Join an ambitious initiative aimed at modernizing selected modules of an airport management software suite. As a Senior Business Analyst, you will work closely with the client’s Product Owner and various stakeholders, playing a pivotal role in shaping the product roadmap, driving backlog management, and ensuring delivery of business value.

Responsibilities

• Represent the client’s Product Owner within the delivery Scrum team, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical delivery

• Own and manage the product backlog by translating complex business requirements into well-defined items, continuously refining and prioritizing them in line with project goals and MVP, while facilitating refinement sessions and guiding the development team throughout sprints to ensure clarity of scope and priorities

• Use diverse requirements exploration techniques to gather, validate, and refine business needs while driving continuous discovery processes to identify, shape, and plan future iterations based on evolving project requirements

• Leverage AI/LLM-powered tools to enhance the analysis of legacy systems, accelerating insights and improving decision-making

• Proactively collaborate with developers, testers, architects, and client-side stakeholders to address blockers, manage dependencies, and mitigate risks

• Prepare clear and comprehensive documentation, including business and technical requirements, process flows, and high-quality User Stories

• Communicate fluently in English, both spoken and written, ensuring smooth collaboration with international, English-speaking teams

Requirements

• Extensive experience in senior, product-focused roles (e.g. Senior Business Analyst, Requirements Engineer, Product Owner) cooperating directly with client’s organization and development teams

• Strong, hands-on experience in using a variety of requirements exploration and validation techniques

• Practical experience with team collaboration tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Trello, or Azure DevOps

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to extract insights from complex data and systems

• Proactive and solution-oriented approach to problem-solving and decision-making.

• Excellent skills in requirements gathering, analysis and documentation, paired with expertise in creating high-quality User Stories

• Proficiency in English at a level that enables seamless cooperation with native speakers

• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills

• Willingness for office visits and occasional business trips

• “A match to our culture” – a team player with strong communication skills, focusing on what brings value, eager to drive change by taking the initiative and caring for an open and friendly atmosphere

Nice to have

• Practical knowledge of agile delivery, especially Scrum (PSPO certification or equivalent)

• Experience working on large-scale, corporate projects

• Experience in using AI/LLM-powered tools in a professional context

Benefits of joining Grape Up

• Non-corporate work environment among experienced engineers

• Individual growth & development plan supported by cyclical feedback sessions

• Access to knowledge platforms (e.g. Pluralsight)

• Equipment of your choice

• In-house business and tech trainings, and meetups

• Financing of conferences, external trainings, and certifications

• Language lessons (English, German and Polish for foreigners)

• Cafeteria MyBenefit where you can choose your favorite perks (e.g. LuxMed private medical care, MultiSport, shopping and event vouchers, etc.)

• Weekly Lunch & Learn where we meet up in the office, lunch together, and share our knowledge

• Employee referral program

• Rewards for the success of the month and year awarded by our employees

• Integration activities & trips