IT Sr. Business Analyst 1

POSITION SUMMARY

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, document, and analyze business requirements and processes.
• Design and propose solutions that meet business needs while ensuring alignment with company goals and strategies.
• Analyze business data to uncover, opportunities, and ways for improvement.
• Create detailed functional specifications, user stories, and other documentation to support project development and implementation.
• Acts as liaison between the business units and IT.
• Travel may be required.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Solution Design and Requirements Execution:

• Elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation of business requirements through collaboration with internal and external customers.
• Recording of requirements through creation of user stories and functional specs.
• Refining user stories and estimating them through story points.
• Assess proposed solutions to ensure they meet the business requirements.
• Identifying project-specific risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Analyze and model existing business processes, and developing new processes that meet the business requirements.
• Contributing to prototype development of user application interfaces.
• Create reports and write queries, then analyze data to provide insights and recommendations.
• Develop data-driven solutions to complex problems.
• Formulate solutions for small to medium projects, participates in projects of all sizes.

Test Execution:

• Assisting in the creation and/or execution of test plans for new or changed applications.
• Creation and validation of test scenarios and test cases.
• Execution of unit test cases.
• Coordination of User Acceptance Testing (UAT), then reporting and communicating UAT metrics.
• Leading the execution of UAT test cases.

Communication:

• Communication of requirements to counterparts within the IT organization.
• Communicating technical constraints, concerns, and other variables identified within IT to the business.
• Creation or supporting the creation of training presentations and SOPs.
• Provide training to business users and counterparts in the IT organization for process changes, projects changes, or day-to-day activities.

Project Initiation, Planning and Execution:

• Identifying and defining business needs and areas of improvement.
• Creating solution designs that will meet a business need from a system and process perspective.
• Estimating project costs and determining the internal and external resource needs.
• Gathering and documenting requirements for RFPs and RFIs.
• Supporting the development of project proposals, business cases, project charters, and stakeholder analysis.
• Participate in steering and governance committees.
• Creating and supporting project plans.
• Identifying project-specific risks throughout the development lifecycle.
• Understands the financial implications of decisions and requests as it relates to IT.
• Leads small to medium size projects.

Job Knowledge:

• Communicates to business constituents in easily understood terms and USG terminology.
• Understands data models.
• Collect, clean and analyze both structured and unstructured data, then communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Understands the basic tenets of information risk security.
• Reviews and provides input into technical design documents.

• Supervisory role is limited to assigning work and reviewing work of others, does not conduct performance reviews
• Works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish assigned goals

• Understands project plans and can clearly articulate roles, project goals, and timelines.
• Provides guidance to new and less experienced team members in business analysis skills.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

Bachelors degree in Business, Computer Science or related field.

Years of Experience:

A minimum of 5 years of in-depth business experience with the bulk of that experience serving a business/IT liaison role.

Required Skills:

• Experience in business analysis and providing business solutions.

• Establishes reasonable deadlines and personal work plans and manages time effectively.

• Basic knowledge of systems development cycles, methodologies, and workflow diagramming.