Lead Business Analyst

Job Title: Lead Business Analyst
Location: Hybrid in Orlando FL (Once a week)
Duration: 12month Contract

The Company
Headquartered in Los Angeles this leader in the Entertainment & Media space is focused on delivering worldclass stories and experiences to its global audience. To offer the best entertainment experiences their technology teams focus on continued innovation and utilization of cuttingedge technology.

Lead Business Analyst

The Lead Business Analyst works to identify plan and coordinate a set of business analysis activities to support existing apps in the Crew Systems space for the client to manage their interdependencies in support of all production applications. The Lead Business Analyst engages with the business on behalf of the IT Support teams when needed and defines business requirements and business processes that IT can use to enhance and update existing systems. The Lead BA is also responsible for driving priority sessions with the business creating business requirements and understanding core functionality within a large set of Crew specific applications. The Lead Business Analyst ensures the required outcomes are built tested and delivered.

Job Responsibilities

• Coordinate and generate requirements for enhancements and bug fixes of current systems.
• Analyze and identify requirements for gaps enhancements and other business needs. Coordinate with business and technical resources
• Perform reporting and business rules and data conversion analysis when needed.
• Coordinate and elicit business requirements for system enhancements.
• Coordination with inhouse and 3rd party developers on enhancement and support projects.
• Facilitate requirements generation meetings when needed.
• Facilitate agile standups when needed.
• Take and maintain accurate meeting notes.
• Manage decision log
• Coordinate activities related to corporate systems and data compliance projects (e.g. PII PCI and GDPR)
• Able to adapt to varying project needs including Business Analysis activities Project Coordinator activities
• Documentation activities or Test Coordination as needed.
• Drive teams to end goals.
• Will assist the Program Manager with oversight of technical delivery teams.
• Manage Change Requests.
• Proxy Product Owner.
• Works with the business to capture and document requirements (both functional and nonfunctional)
• Assist management of competing priorities from multiple stakeholders
• Ability to analyze business processes at the macro level to ensure cohesive product enhancements
• Ensures business requirements are concise complete specific and unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business.
• Ensures the benefits impact and release of all changes are tracked and managed and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
• Provides project management support including change and support activities. Other: grooming of the backlogs prioritizing workload sprint planning vendor management business coordination and status reporting.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Must be analytical.
• Must be business and technical savvy.
• Must be collaborative and have excellent communication skills.
• Must be technical or have experience working with technical teams.
• Agile experience required (overall process writing stories collaborating with others to groom backlog).
• Analysis and documentation of processes assumptions requirements functional and nonfunctional.
• Task/Vendor management and coordination experience.
• Experience working in a highly complex environment multiple systems and integrations
• Test management experience.
• Prior experience with data purge policies security & compliance assessments.
• Release planning experience
• SharePoint Confluence Jira working knowledge.
• Strong problemsolving skills
• Ability to handle virtual teams and work with resources in multiple sites (onsite offshore near shore)