8634- Business Analyst
Dallas, TX 75201 US
Job Description
#8634
Location: ENON, OH
Duration: 12 Months
Job Responsibilities:
- Develops solution specifications and detailed requirements for IT projects and M&I requests
- Facilitates sessions with stakeholders to determine technical requirements
- Manages and documents all business requirements for project work in conjunction with related Subject Matter Experts (SMEs)
- Initiates and manages risk assessment process to completion, which includes risk documentation and risk mitigation controls
- Establishes systems specifications and objectives, based on business requirements and cost effectiveness
- Develops test plans and coordinates software testing with internal partners. Completes testing when appropriate
- Ensures all duties including, but not limited to, requirements, test cases and test plans, are completed in accordance with all required documentation
- Collaborates with internal and external partners to ensure customer needs are met by reviewing requirements, status updates and associated issues
- Keeps abreast of technology, customer needs and industry related trends
- Develops and maintains process maps for business systems and makes plans to accommodate future work requests
- Performs risk and business impact analysis for proposed enhancements and changes to business systems
- Advises and guides business units in the process of developing system enhancements, ideas and work requests. Captures potential benefits to assist with prioritization
- Identifies system requirements and evaluates new applications
- Documents interfaces between new and legacy systems
- Ensures assets are created and maintained in PPM/Archer and annually reviewed via Application Policy Statement updates
- Maintains requirement details in appropriate ticketing system (e.g., Jit Bit, Service Now, PPM) as needed
- Collaborates closely with IT Architects to design optimal technical solutions to meet business needs while aligning with IT strategies
- Completes other duties, including special projects, as assigned by Management
Education Requirements:
- High school plus college level course work in IT related field
Experience Requirements:
- Min. 4-6 years exp in S/W, IT support, Business analyst, and Systems analyst areas.
- Experience with MS SharePoint, SQL, Power BI, MS Visio tools. .Net and business process management tools preferred
Skill Requirements:
- Demonstrated expertise with Word, Excel and other MS Office suite applications
- Excellent communication, organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to research and resolve issues
- Solid Knowledge of SQL, MS Excel, and Power BI, MS Visio tools. .Net is a plus.
- Strong facilitation skills for requirement elicitation and management communications
- Good understanding of business issues and technical implications
- Excellent understanding of client operations and systems
- Good problem-solving skills and attitude
- Ability to handle diverse situations, multiple initiatives and rapidly changing priorities
- Ability to present information, both verbal and written, in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to multi-task and track multiple efforts concurrently
- Ability to develop estimations, including the work steps and effort hours
- Good understanding of databases, development tools, infrastructure and software applications
- Ability to translate business requirement(s) into detailed technical documentation
- Experience with software deployment processes
- Familiarity with waterfall, agile and iterative software development lifecycles
- Ability to test thoroughly including boundary testing, negative testing, ad hoc testing and regression testing
- Ability to troubleshoot issues in the certification and production environments
- Understanding of organizational change management (OCM) to assist with adoption of system changes
- Ability to perform repeated bending, standing and reaching
- Ability to occasionally lift up to 40 pounds