Description
Senior/Executive Level Business Analyst
Ideal candidate will have prior experience gathering requirements from Executives and Senior Level Leadership.
Must be a TRUE Business Analyst, not a Project Manager who has done BA work
Must have a portfolio of work examples - focused on requirements gathering docs as well as proposal work. Solutions Development experience - helping to develop or create a solution is a big plus.
BA Certification preferred.
Either CBAP, familiar with IIBA, endorsed.
Business Analyst with a Technical Background or experience working within an IT Department, not necessarily a product line, but an IT software product or service. Required
Consulting background.
Familiar IIBA/BA possess or working towards certification.
Sr. Level BA/Consulting work in the last 3 years, must have a solid work history.
Combination of technical background with Business mix.Preferred
Solutions Architect/Titles
BA Certification
The business analyst is responsible for successful implementation of projects predominantly involving Microsoft technologies. The following are the primary responsibilities:
× Quickly understand the client's business domain and associated business issues and
data challenges of client's organization and industry
× Identifies client organization's strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement
× Performs interviews and research to determine business requirements and translates them into specifications for complex technical projects
× Draws on depth of business process engineering knowledge to drive requirements, reconcile conflicts and distinguish solution ideas from business needs
× Works with software developers and other technical resources
× Works with leadership team to estimate work and contributes to project planning, statements of work and progress reports
× Ensures issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner
× Works with client and project team to identify changes to scope and communicates needed changes to development team.
× Writes test cases and executes test cases. Works with client testing resources to coordinate end user testing.
× Manages client expectations in relation to scope, progress, and capability of solutions.
Skill requirements
× Extensive experience in business process modelling and requirements development
× Strong knowledge of the Microsoft Suite of products including SharePoint
× Possesses understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design, Internet, Extranet and Client Server architectures, and how Legacy and web-based systems interface with each other
× Understands how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully
× Experience in software development
× Well versed in Agile-based development practices
× Excellent interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills
× Pushes creative thinking beyond the boundaries of existing industry practices and client mindsets