Senior Business Analyst - BPM, SDLC, Agile a must! Work/life balance!

Pennsylvania  ‐ Onsite
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Senior Business Analyst

Skills: Business Analysis, Process Engineering, Data Flows, Agile/Scrum Methodology, User Stories

Pay Rate: Flexible based on experience

Feel like your skills are underutilized? Looking to prove what you can REALLY do? Our client is a leading high volume consumer information website organization. This fast paced, high energy organization fosters the ultimate work/play environment for out-of-the-box thinkers. You'll utilize the latest technologies in a collaborative environment and enjoy working with this well-known brand!

Summary
The Sr. Business Analyst (BA) is responsible for championing the interests and objectives of business owners within IT. A BA identifies, designs, and facilitates the application of technology in support of business processes. Candidates must be able to communicate with business owners, users and IT professionals with equal ease to create and preserve the functional integrity of the solution. This role serves as facilitator, analyst, designer and problem solver. Excellent analytical skills and the ability to operate in a team environment are essential, as are outstanding documentation, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

This is a 3 month contract opportunity with opportunity for extension.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely and interact directly with business owners and IT staff to identify, rationalize and document business requirements; then design and document practical, useful, and cost effective solutions in the form of functional specifications which become the basis for development and testing.
  • Conduct analysis that identifies current and future state business processes.
  • Make process improvement and systems enhancement recommendations, leveraging best practices and professional experience.
  • Obtain and maintain a deep understanding of applications, customers and business processes within the areas they support.
  • Maintain high levels of customer service at all times.
  • Conduct application design sessions and moderate other discussions as necessary.
  • Work with project managers to communicate project status and issues to business owners.
  • Work with project managers to manage individual work load and assist with defining and prioritizing project tasks. Work effectively on multiple assignments, activities or projects.
  • Collaborate closely with and assist application development teams when required to ensure the functional integrity of project deliverables.
  • Work with project teams to develop detailed specifications for application functionality.
  • Serve as the functionality expert while actively participating in testing, training, and user documentation development.
  • Manage the capture and maintenance of a library of model documents, templates, best practices, and other re-usable knowledge assets.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert in specific ATC business areas and technologies.
  • Mentor other Business Analysts as needed or required; conduct peer reviews of key deliverables.
  • Act as project lead/manager as needed for smaller projects or initiatives under guidance of experienced PM or Delivery Manager

Qualifications

  • Bachelors degree in Business, Economics, MIS/IT or Engineering required, advanced degree preferred
  • 5 or more years of business experience in relevant functional areas (especially Internet advertising/sales, service or marketing) required
  • 5 or more years of experience with relevant software preferred, including Microsoft Office applications, MS Project, Visio and business process modelling (BPM) applications
  • Formal development life cycle (SDLC) methodology experience strongly preferred
  • Experience in Waterfall AND Agile environments required

Benefits
As an Agile consultant, you'll gain many of the advantages and benefits of being a direct hire, while experiencing the flexibility of consulting. It's the best of both worlds! Our IT consultants enjoy a wide array of benefits including: medical, dental, 401K, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program and more.

Start date
2 weeks or sooner
Duration
3 month with opportunity for extension
(extension possible)
From
Generic Network
Published at
13.10.2011
Project ID:
253443
Contract type
Freelance
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