Senior Business Analyst

 

 

 

Job ID:  514261

CRH's Americas Materials, a division of CRH, is the leading vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete and paving and construction services in North America.  Our operations span North America with over 28,000 employees at close to 1,600 locations in 43 US States and 2 Canadian provinces.

 

Position Overview

The IT Business Analyst collaborates with business stakeholders, Information Technology resources, vendors, and other key stakeholders to understand, document, and clearly articulate business processes, structures, policies, and operations as well as system data flows and usage.

They work with stakeholders across the organization to ensure that requirements, priorities, functional designs, technical designs, and solution designs drive the desired business outcomes.  The documents and artifacts they create are easily understood by both business and technical team members and provide team members with the information they need to design, build, deliver, and sustain technical solutions.

 

Key Responsibilities (Essential Duties and Functions)

To perform this job satisfactorily, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Leadership Functions:​

• Accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the team​.
• Develop and explicitly communicate Product and Project goals​.
• Create and clearly communicate the Product Backlog items​ and Project requirements.
• Ordering and prioritization of Product Backlog items​.
• Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood​.
• Foster teamwork across teams​.
• Puts the team before themselves​​.

 Business Data Analyst Functions:​

• Document demand and project requirements from initiation through definition of done including eliciting and delivering requirements, change management facilitation, perform gap analysis, communication, testing, and training while promoting best practices and standards.​
• Engage with all project stakeholders both internally and externally including Executive and IT Management, Project Sponsor, Product Owner, Subject Matter Experts and additional required resources to continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen customer relationships​.
• Responsible for eliciting requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process mapping and descriptions, build vs buy analysis, task and workflow analysis for critical evaluation of information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs​.
• Create and deliver artifacts derived from functional requirements utilizing: Business Requirement Documents, Functional Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, Diagrams, User Stories and Mockups for development and subject matter acceptance to establish the technical vision and balance usability and performance needs​.
• Assist in coordination, leading and/or participating in the testing process and UAT​.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements​.
• Capture simple to complex business logic and transformation calculations and translate them to overall project deliverables.
• Generate data lineage and Transformations logic from industry standard ETL tools and add that as part of the playbook.
• Capture Data Quality rules and provide to development team to be included for reconciliation process.
• Create and maintain processes to generate accurate and timely reports that help stakeholders understand and act on key data insights.
• Assist Product Owner with user story creation and backlog management​ ("Service to the Product Owner")​.
• Assist Product Owner and Lead Developer in executing showcases​.
• Responsible for developing internal and external communications​ related to releases and product demos.
• Lead the request for proposal (RFP), process by working with business, performance, IT, and vendors