Senior Business Analyst/Scrum Master

Perficient is always looking for the best and brightest talent and we need you! We’re a quickly-growing, global digital consulting leader, and we’re transforming the world’s largest enterprises and biggest brands. You’ll work with the latest technologies, expand your skills, and become a part of our global community of talented, diverse, and knowledgeable colleagues.

Job Overview:

The role of the Senior Business Analyst is for individuals passionate about identifying and delivering the right business solution for each client. Our Business Analysts have a keen business orientation with an understanding of how technology can be effectively applied to meet a variety of Business needs.

Our Business Analysts fill a number of different roles on our project teams working with a variety of technologies for a wide range of clients. The specific responsibilities vary for each client and each project. Key to the success of our Business Analysts is the willingness and desire to quickly learn the client’s industry and the unique requirements of each engagement and to fill whatever role may be required to best support our client’s needs.

A Business Analyst thrives in challenging environments and accomplishes difficult assignments without significant supervision and instruction. Our Consultants can handle the stress of being accountable for delivery and: complete goals on time, practice strong attention to detail, persevere through tough obstacles, and do not get easily discouraged.

The Senior Business Analyst will be involved in the strategic planning of an engagement or helping the client make decisions about their future IT direction. Once a project has begun, the Senior Business Analyst will facilitate key requirements with stakeholders and customers using standard and User Experience techniques. The Senior Business Analyst may be responsible for functional designs, detailed designs and system mapping, wireframes, requirement specifications, and prototypes.

• Build trusted client relationships through proactive account management and effective project delivery
• Establishes knowledge of client business challenges and priorities to translate into opportunities
• Maintains regular client communication and satisfaction, ensuring opportunities and challenges are addressed in a timely manner
• Helps deliver presentations to clients and management teams
• Contributes to project discoveries, kickoff, prepare proposals and statements of work following company standards
• Translate client’s business needs into detailed business requirements documents, use cases and systems interaction diagrams
• Works with customers to establish approved wireframes and mock-ups for solutions
• Assists project team to establish high, mid, and micro level plans for project team
• Helps to establish critical path, milestones, delivery dates, and review client deliverables to ensure they meet client acceptance criteria
• Provides leadership throughout the lifecycles of a project, guiding the understanding the project team has through design and development to ensure project requirements are met
• Helps establish project test strategy, methodologies, test plans, as well as assist with test execution
• Instills team commitment to company delivery methodologies and practices

• 3-6 years of professional Business Analysis experience, with strong relationship management, account management, and support experience.
• Minimum 2 years consulting industry experience working with external clients
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Understanding of iterative development methodologies
• Knowledge of current technologies, application software development
• Experience with SQL and writing queries
• Skilled ability to obtain, understand and respond strategically to client needs
• Highly detail oriented, well organized, and able to coordinate multiple projects simultaneously
• Strong analytical, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Energetic, motivated, service-oriented, and be able to multi task
• Proven track record of delivering on time, on budget, and meeting client commitments
• Excellent listening, oral, and written communication skills
• Excellent facilitation, presentation, and reporting skills
• Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills
• Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred skills and education:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• Strong understanding of complex Internet based enterprise level applications

The salary range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors, including but not limited to skill sets, level of experience, applicable office location, training, lic