1Job Title: Business Analyst

Job Location: HAZELWOOD MO 63042 Remote

Onsite Requirements:

• CBAP
• SQL
• TFS

Job Description:

• The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium to large IT projects.
• The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation, and translation to technology teams.
• The Business analyst serves the business working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions.
• As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise.
• The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

Tasks And Responsibilities:

• The following duties are essential to the successful and satisfactory performance of this job. Other duties may be assigned.
• Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives, and scope of new projects.
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements.
• Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner.
• Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs.
• Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements.
• Translate technical solutions and constraints to business.
• Develops business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit.
• Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities.
• Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities.
• Evaluate technology deliveries to meet business objectives.
• Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project.

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• CBAP Certification preferred.

Minimum Experience :

• 3 years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition and solution evaluation
• Strong facilitation, critical / analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills.
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile / Lean methodologies.
• Excellent MS-Excel, SQL, and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations.
• Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption.
• Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other.
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques.
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives.
• Strong Business Acumen
• Experience in defining and maturing business capability road maps.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate.
• The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply. **