Technical Business Analyst (PHP)

This role is primarily Business Analysis: sitting with plant and corporate stakeholders, extracting real requirements from business asks, and translating them into functional specifications and system designs. Development work — PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL — is a secondary but hands-on responsibility: you will expected to build web-based applications using PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL.

You'll be expected to ask the right questions, push back on vague or ambiguous asks, and translate operational reality (short shelf-life food manufacturing and retail stores/restaurants, multi-plant, mixed SAP/non-SAP landscape) into working software.

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis (Primary)

• Lead requirements-gathering sessions with business stakeholders across departments and business units (production, inventory, sales, finance).
• Translate business needs into clear functional specifications, user stories, and process/data flow documentation.
• Identify gaps between what stakeholders ask for and what the system landscape can actually support and propose realistic alternatives.
• Manage your own requirements-to-delivery workstream end-to-end: intake, prioritization, design, build coordination, UAT, sign-off.

Development (Secondary, Hands-On)

• Write production-quality PHP code for the defined business requirements, ensuring the build matches design intent.
• Contribute to schema design decisions for new modules or extensions.
• Support existing web-based applications.

Power Platform (Not required)

• Experience in this domain is not reuired but will be an advantage.
• Build or extend Power Apps canvas apps and Power Automate flows.
• Work within SharePoint-backed data structures used by the existing Power Platform stack.

Delivery & Documentation

• Maintain technical and functional documentation.
• Communicate progress and trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
• The candidate should be able to effectively communicate with non-technical stakeholders and key business users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Business, or related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• A minimum of 3 years hands-on PHP development and a minimum of 2 years performing business analysis activities (requirements gathering, functional specification, stakeholder translation) - these can be concurrent (hybrid role) or accumulated across separate roles.
• Proven experience gathering requirements directly from business stakeholders and converting them into specs, process flows, or system designs.
• Proficient in PHP, preferably with the Laravel framework.
• Working knowledge of PostgreSQL (schema design, queries)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable communicating with non-technical stakeholders at varying levels of the organization.
• Version control experience (Git).
• Willing to work in Mandaluyong City (Full Onsite)

Advantageous / Nice-to-Have

• Project management experience - for managing your own analysis-to-delivery lifecycle.
• Power Apps / Power Automate development experience.
• Prior exposure to SAP or any ERP system (MM, IM, PP, SD concepts) — you don't need to be a SAP consultant, but understanding why ERPs enforce the constraints they do is a major plus.
• Experience in manufacturing, FMCG, or food industry environments.
• REST API integration experience.
• SharePoint as a data backend.