Responsibilities/Essential Functions:

• Collaborate with stakeholders across departments to gather, document and prioritize business requirements.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders to validate and refine requirements, ensuring all parties have a shared understanding.
• Analyze current business processes to identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement.
• Work with the Enterprise Architecture team to ensure proposed solutions optimize and align with overarching architectural principles.
• Develop detailed business requirement documents, use cases, flow diagrams and other relevant documentation.
• Work closely with the Enterprise Architecture team to maintain updated documentation on architectural decisions, standards and guidelines.
• Assist in the user acceptance testing phase to ensure solutions meet business expectations.
• Understand and translate business needs into requirements, ensuring they align with Enterprise Architecture standards and strategies.
• Assess and select technologies, tools and platforms that align with the company's strategic objectives.
• Maintain knowledge of current and emerging technologies and architectural patterns to support the continuous improvement of enterprise solutions.
• Work cross-functionally, ensuring project alignment with all stakeholders.
• Monitor project progress continuously and adjust priorities and resources as needed.
• Foster collaboration between technical and non-technical teams.
• Ensure that the designed solutions adhere to architectural best practices and standards.
• Work with the Enterprise Architecture team to monitor the progress of initiatives to ensure timely and successful delivery.
• Participate in post-project evaluations to identify areas of improvement and lessons learned.
• Foster the adoption of a data-driven approach to decision-making.
• Champion best practices across the enterprise.
• Coordinate with the IT teams that will strategically create, implement and maintain data models.
• Evaluate and recommend new and emerging technologies and standards.
• Support the goals of the company’s technological alignment efforts.
• Seek out and implement continuous process improvement opportunities.
• Support internal communications related to business improvements and processes, system upgrades and enhancements.
• Build and sustain working relationships with all AUS functional areas.

• Ensure accurate and efficient governance policy development and adherence.
• Report on statuses on a regular cadence and when requested.
• Submit all time and expense reporting procedures accurately and timely.
• Maintain good standing and completion on all compliance related matters (i.e., assigned mandatory trainings, actions required from audits, corporate policies, etc.)
• Perform all additional duties and responsibilities based on the direction and guidance of supervisor.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong collaboration and team-building skills with the ability to create consensus around decisions and mitigate conflicts among teams.
• Ability to effectively define a business case, determine return on investment and measure achievement of the case over time.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills. Skilled and proficient in MS Office O365 suite (i.e. Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, Communications Tools, etc.)
• Ability to operate with a customer-centric service approach.
• Ability to manage and work on multiple concurrent deliverables at various stages of development and completion.
• Previous experience as a business analyst, preferably within an Enterprise Architecture or IT setting.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• Demonstrated attention to detail and quality of work products and communications.
• Willingness to seek out and implement coaching, suggestions and guidance from others.

Working Environment/Safety Requirements:

• Ensure necessary working environment and capabilities to effectively carry out responsibilities if working from a non-AUS location (remote work).
• Ability and willingness to handle work related issues during all hours of the day, every day of the week, understanding the responsibility of our organization’s requirement for 24/7 production support.
• Ability, willingness and flexibility to travel as needed for approved work purposes in accordance with project and management schedules.

Experience/Qualifications:

• A minimum of 1 year in business analysis or related field.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.
• Be legally able to work in the United States: U.S. Citizen or Legal Resident.

License Requirements/Certifications:

• Valid U.S. drivers license (for rental cars when applicable).