Year Round
AUTHENTICITY | EMPOWERMENT | COLLABORATION | PURPOSE
Alterra Mountain Company is a family of iconic year-round mountain destinations, the world’s largest heli-skiing operation, and Ikon Pass - the premier ski and snowboard season pass offering access to more than 50 iconic mountain destinations around the world. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado and born out of a shared love of the mountains and adventure, Alterra Mountain Company exists to shape the future of mountain adventure.
WHAT WE OFFER
For information on Alterra Mountain Company’s Social Responsibility work including our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion actions, please see our webpage at www.alterramtnco.com/social-responsibility. Among other resources, Alterra has Employee Resource Groups to support the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), disability, LGBTQIA2S+, and women communities within our workforce.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Alterra Advanced Purchase Platform team is looking for a talented Technical Analyst who has experience in APIs, Identity, Payment Processing, ecommerce, frontend / backend applications and integrations. We are seeking a detail-oriented, systematic thinker with experience taking business requirements and product development ideas and balancing against complex system requirements and translating to appropriate and diverse audiences. You will be an integral contributor to the end-to-end ecommerce customer journey as it relates to technical discovery, validation/user acceptance testing, development support and business expansion execution. You will lead multiple business unit teams across our Alterra destinations through new or expansion feature rollouts in the ecommerce and central reservations platforms, which includes identifying opportunities for standards, creating, and delivering business and technical documentation, project planning and timing and ensure timely, audience-appropriate communication throughout.
This position will work closely with multiple members of the Digital Solutions department, including engineering, product, and QA, and will interact with various partners and stakeholders during requirements analysis and design. This role will help keep our engineering team moving forward by unblocking developers on system capabilities. This role will ensure our Advance Purchase Platform Team is supported and unblocked with technical support and system Subject Matter Expertise.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES
General Responsibilities
Lead feature rollouts and expansion in the ecommerce and central reservations platforms with each of our destinations
Responsible for end-to-end process and system requirements for new features and expansion
Lead for business point of contacts at destinations who are impacted by and responsible for the system changes with feature rollouts and expansions, providing guidance, support and documentation
Analyze, define, build supporting testing product and document requirements for the development backlog
Establish clear and discrete acceptance criteria based on requirements gathering and technical research and experience
Work with development team to answer questions about and clarify use cases, requirements, and acceptance criteria
Work with the product team to support and contribute to decision making on product roadmap, team and company goals, and priority.
Work with other teams across digital, data, and infrastructure to ensure maintain alignment and address dependencies.
Apply knowledge of our business, our products, and our technologies to make recommendations for feature enhancements, performance tuning, and automation.
Responsible for validating functionality and acceptance criteria of all ecommerce bug and feature tickets within each deployment cycle.
Work with teams to remove impediments, manage dependencies, and resolves conflicts to ensure successful feature rollout, expansion, and development release.
Lead business owners through release or changes of new or expansion features.
Help develop, define, and document processes, along with the supporting organizational enablement / training
Leverage technical skills to query API’s and reporting, and perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting.
Additional responsibilities:
Track and communicate team progress, identify blockers and risk.
Support creation of product roadmaps and feature prioritization through technical SME.
Attend Scrum ceremonies, including standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, retrospectives, release planning, triage, and other Agile activities
Demonstrate pro-active problem resolution and solution skills, demonstrate ability to be a problem solver
Identify project risks and provide appropriate process and procedures to mitigate those risks
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
3+ years gathering requirements, supporting product and technical teams, and defining acceptance criteria
3+ years as a technical analyst, business analyst or product owner role
3+ years in software systems (ecommerce systems preferred)
3+ years in supporting technology and software development
Proven ability to communicate effectively and document requirements for varying levels of organizational stakeholders and cross business units functionality
Demonstrated understanding of fundamental technologies and design patterns, such as databases, application integration, and service-oriented architectures
Experience working with standard technology productivity tools, such as Jira, Confluence, Miro or Lucidchart, Trello, Monday and the Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio).
Experience being a part of Agile and other development methodologies pragmatically to fit the specific team & project need, including knowledge of scrum theory, rules, and practices.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
SDLC knowledge including requirements, design, implementation, development, system and integration testing, user acceptance testing, documentation, and training.
Experience in project scheduling, estimating, forecasting
Domain knowledge of hospitality, travel, and leisure industries.
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or 3+ years Product Management / Analyst or equivalent experience
The base salary range below represents the low and high end of the Alterra Mtn Co Shared Services Inc. salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to experience, education, training, location, merit system, quantity or quality of production, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel. The range listed is just one component of the Company’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include short-term and long-term incentives and many region-specific benefits.
Denver area base salary range: $80,000 to $112,000 per year.
Application Deadline: This position is open and still accepting applications.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily with or without reasonable accommodations.
Alterra Mountain Company and its affiliates are equal opportunity employers.
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