Senior Business Analyst

Job Summary:

This role is a Lead business analyst with experience in IT Solutions to join our Client Experience Practice.  This role will lead meetings for business analysis, functional design, business process design, and user enablement needs. This role is responsible for overseeing customer’s needs to ascertain requirements, strive to build and maintain strong customer relations as well as ensure client expectations are successfully met.   

Job Duties:

• Lead requirements gathering and discovery workshops for custom IT solutions
• Conduct current state assessments of business processes and supporting systems
• Analyze and document system requirements that meet solution needs
• Collaborate and lead meetings with developers to ensure technical feasibility of all proposed solutions
• Perform gap and data analysis in support of identifying improvement opportunities
• Manage developers’ expectation by providing functional clarification and setting expectations with team and client
• Identify, document, and manage change; transition delivered solution to end users
• Manage, oversee and delegate the authoring and creation of design artifacts such as: Functional design specifications, low fidelity wireframes, use cases, user personas, data dictionaries, process and data flow diagrams
• Document, socialize, and triage issues, defects, and enhancement requests
• Manage traceability matrices, change requests, test plans and cases, user guides, capability discovery and delivery roadmaps
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university, required

Experience:

• Five (5) or more years professional experience as a Technical or Functional Business Analyst or equivalent IT Solutions and technology role, required
• Experience gathering, documenting requirements and leading working sessions, required
• Experience in overseeing and delegating to junior business analysts, required
• Knowledge of the software development life cycle and demonstrate the ability to multiple teams, required
• Ability to proactively identify risks and participate in the mitigation plan, required
• Ability to solve problems, identify solutions, and appropriately escalate issues, required

Software:

• Microsoft Technologies proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook, required
• Azure DevOps, Atlassian Products including JIRA, Visio or other project management tools, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written
• Excels at operating in a fast-paced technical environment
• Must be willing to travel to the client as needed

Keywords:  
Functional Lead, Business Analyst, BA, Quality Assurance, PowerPoint, Tableau, Qlik, Balsamic, JIRA, Enterprise Tester, Requirements Gathering, User Experience, Testing, User Enablement, Data Visualization, SharePoint, Application Development, Software, Definition, .Net, Java, Office 365, Custom Applications, Data Analytics, CRM, Cloud Strategy, Azure DevOps

 

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

National Range: $80,000 - $120,000 
Maryland Range: $80,000 - $120,000 
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $80,000 - $120,000

Join us at BDO, where you will find more than a career, you’ll find a place where your work is impactful, and you are valued for your individuality. We offer flexibility and opportunities for advancement. Our culture is centered around making meaningful connections, approaching interactions with curiosity, and being true to yourself, all while making a positive difference in the world. 

At BDO, our purpose of helping people thrive every day is at the heart of everything we do. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcom