Brooksource

Business Analyst

Hybrid – Houston, TX

Summary:

Our Fortune 500 Environmental Services client is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join their Landfill Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring and Reduction program. The program goals are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and support their sustainability commitments by developing and deploying a standard landfill surface methane emissions data collection, visualization, and management platform.

General Responsibilities:

• Coordinates with users to determine and document business and user requirements, process flow definitions, and functional specifications.
• Responsible for document repositories, maintenance, and updates of project documentation library.
• Create workflow diagrams and screen mockups
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Under minimal supervision, acts as a liaison between the technology and business groups in the development of new systems and enhancement of existing systems.
• Conduct advanced level business process analysis, needs assessments and preliminary cost/benefit analysis to align technology solutions with business initiatives.
• Leads project team with gaining business user acceptance.
• Reviews progress and evaluates results for accuracy and efficiency.
• Resolves issues arising from internal department functions, or as brought forth by internal or external customers to assigned department.
• Tracks issues to resolution within department and in partnership with other groups.
• Monitors overall workflow to ensure timely completion of projects and daily work requirements.
• Work with Dev and testing teams to explain requirements, do sanity checks and review test cases
• Write acceptance criteria for stories and defects

Required Job Skills & Experience:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Minimum 5 years acting as a business analyst in an applications development environment
• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalent experience, in a relevant discipline
• A track record of hands-on production of requirements artifacts on successful IT projects.

Important Differentiators

• Experience in all phases of a project development lifecycle in a fortune 1000 company working in a large, global team environment (> 5 team members)
• Experience with AutoDesk/AutoCAD and ArcGIS
• CBAP or CCBA certification
• Experience acting as a project lead and ability to work independently
• Experience in a Quality Assurance role, or a role that closely interacts with QA
• Training and training documentation development
• Coding or software development background
• Data analysis and/or database skills with MS SQL and/or Oracle
• User interface/user experience design background

About Eight Eleven Group:

Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.