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Business Partnership & Requirements Analysis
- Elicit, analyze, and document business requirements for new ABO compensation and bonus initiatives as well as changes to existing incentive programs.
- Analyze compensation plan documentation and evaluate the business and system impacts of proposed incentive plan changes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to map business processes, data flows, and technology needs, and contribute to the business case for proposed solutions.
- Support demand intake, prioritization, and quarterly planning by assessing feasibility, effort, risk, and downstream impact of requested work.
- Communicate analysis findings, options, trade-offs, and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
Solution Design & System Analysis
- Translate business requirements into functional designs, use cases, process flows, and detailed schematics of transaction and business flows.
- Perform analysis on initiatives spanning multiple systems, affiliates, and business disciplines within the MAGIC and BonusCalc ecosystem.
- Model and validate data structures and calculation logic, using SQL and analytical tooling to confirm accuracy of bonus and incentive outcomes.
- Perform configuration of application capabilities to meet business requirements where custom engineering is not required.
- Contribute to integration design, including event-driven and API-based patterns that enable scalable, loosely coupled capabilities.
- Partner with architects, product owners, and senior analysts on solution design, design approach, estimating, and planning.
- Maintain requirements traceability from business need through design, build, test, and release.
Delivery Execution
- Operate as an embedded member of the agile delivery team, contributing to backlog refinement, story definition, acceptance criteria, sprint planning, and estimation.
- Support planning, prioritization, and delivery, balancing enhancement work against production support demand.
- Identify and escalate risks, dependencies, and issues early so that blockers to delivery are removed.
- Partner with global team members, vendors, and cross-market teams across time zones to coordinate analysis, share domain knowledge, and apply consistent delivery practices and standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve business processes and platform capabilities through the application of technology solutions.
- Participate in the adoption and continuous improvement of corporate IT processes.
Quality, Reliability & Production Support
- Plan and execute validation procedures, including test strategy input, test case design, and user acceptance testing, to confirm that solutions satisfy documented requirements.
- Apply testing standards and continuous integration and continuous delivery discipline in partnership with software engineers.
- Provide level 3 production support, performing root cause analysis on incidents and supporting corrective and preventive action.
- Support incident, problem, change, and release management practices, including Change Advisory Board processes and disciplined production deployment.
- Contribute to performance and resiliency validation so that solutions meet availability, accuracy, and scalability expectations.
Security & Compliance
- Apply secure-by-design principles throughout the delivery lifecycle, including analysis of access controls, data handling, and vulnerability remediation requirements.
- Uphold enterprise-aligned data protection and data governance controls, including privacy-by-design, safeguarding of personally identifiable information, and secure data access patterns across BonusCalc services and events.
AI-Enabled Analysis, Documentation & Knowledge Management
- Apply AI-enabled tooling responsibly to accelerate analysis, documentation, test generation, and incident investigation, within enterprise AI usage policies and human-in-the-loop review standards.
- Maintain requirements, design, and configuration documentation, and support documentation governance and knowledge sharing across the team.
- Stay informed of developments within the business, the direct selling industry, and technology trends, and recommend improved tools, techniques, and methodologies.
- Contribute to key performance indicators used to baseline and measure product improvements within BonusCalc.
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