Job Description
Senior Business Analyst
Location : Hybrid - Deerfield Beach, FL (3 days a week onsite)
Position Type : Contract (multi-year, open ended)
Responsibilities:
- Building User Stories according to the requirements and making sure that they meet the acceptance criteria
- Organizing the Product Backlog based on the prioritization provided by the Product Owner
- Serve as a business advisor whose primary role is to support the Product Owner by analyzing, facilitating dialogue, and getting the correct information to the product owner
- Provide customers a high quality and consistent level of proactive and professional IT service, to maintain, enhance and implement technology solutions that enable business processes and operations
- Work to create and maintain positive customer relationships that bolster open communication, reliability, trust, and service loyalty
- Be accountable for managing and delivering support requests, enhancements, and projects for assigned Business Unit / Products. This includes the planning, troubleshooting, facilitation of problem solving, and conveying a variety of requests, incidents, and problems independently within multiple areas
- Partner with external and internal customers and vendors to analyze business needs and work with teams on solutions
- Cross-train to learn applications across the assigned Business Unit application portfolio
- Learn the processes and tools needed to perform the role effectively
- Serve as the conduit between the business partners and the technical team through triage, research, requirements, testing, and support
- Work with technology teams, business teams, vendors, and subject matter experts to perform daily activities
- Lead in identifying the business impact of system issues and facilitate communication as appropriate to stakeholders
- Lead assigned initiatives. Communicate status, issues or risks to management and stakeholders
- Perform on-call responsibilities including nights, holidays, and weekends
- Elicit, understand, interpret, and represent functional and nonfunctional requirements to include business and stakeholder requirements, data and information requirements, data integration, metadata, data quality, service levels and performance
- Plan and facilitate requirement gathering workshops using a variety of techniques such as Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, interviewing, brainstorming, job shadowing, user stories
- Document business, system processes and requirements
- Engage and speak with senior management as appropriate
- Create and facilitation of testing strategy, test plans and test scripts
- Analyze, categorize, document, and validate requirements to the appropriate level of granularity so that technical teams can translate to system design
- Work with quality assurance and business teams in defining the QA (Quality Assurance) strategy, test plans and use cases for QA activities
- Convey planned and unplanned activities to appropriate parties as needed
- Anticipate and understand the impact of changes in business objectives and its effect on project scope and the downstream impact.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in IT or related field
- 5+ years of work experience as a business analyst with working knowledge of multiple areas of Business Analysis (concepts, principles, and practices)
- Understanding of software development lifecycle and models/methodologies
- Prior experience in Agile environment is required
- Knowledge of SQL is a plus
- Experience on projects involving data analysis, data mapping, data integration and/or data warehousing is a plus
- Knowledge of data profiling, cleansing and data conversion processes, techniques and/or tools is a plus
- Understanding of data management principles, data modelling concepts and techniques
- CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) and/or CDMP or CBIP certification(s) is preferred
- Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills,leveraging both logic and creativity to interpret complex concepts and information
- Ability to adjust approach to meet all types of customer communication styles, preferences, and management levels
- Proficiency in translating technical verbiage and complex processes into business-friendly terms
- Must have clear interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate ability to quickly build relationships within and between individuals and cross- functional teams and respond to customers in a compassionate manner
- Be a self-starter, highly flexible and adaptable
- Must be Highly organized with good time management and follow-up skills
- Strong Facilitation and meeting management skills
- Must have willingness to learn and proactively accept and manage change to accomplish positive outcomes
Job Tags
Holiday work, Contract work, Work experience placement, Flexible hours, Night shift, 3 days per week,