Lead IT Business Analyst

Elicit and document requirements using interviews document analysis requirements workshops storyboards surveys site visits business process descriptions use cases scenarios event lists business analysis competitive product analysis task and workflow analysis and/or viewpoints.

Write requirements specifications according to standard templates using natural language simply clearly unambiguously and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views such as analysis models (diagrams) prototypes or scenarios where appropriate.

Conduct data analysis data mapping activities and documentation of data needs

Analyze and document user workflows and create and document new workflows and processes.

Decompose highlevel business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those that must base their work on the requirements.

Support and drive solution design needs and ultimately support vendor selection processes.

Research and document business needs and choices in response to vendor requests.

Work with product owners to align with priorities and build product backlog with epics and refined stories for the development team.

Create user story maps write user stories with relevant acceptance criteria and review/update with the development team at refinement sessions and scrum events as needed.

Conduct refinement sessions at various levels for scrum teams in preparation for story pointing and sprint planning.

Plan manage and track team work items.

Plan and facilitate project discovery sessions.

Identify the current and futurestate business processes; define quality attributes external interfaces constraints and other nonfunctional requirements.

Perform requirements analysis and verification ensuring that requirement statements are complete consistent concise comprehensible traceable feasible unambiguous and verifiable and that they conform to standards.

Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications and pass them on to Application Developers.

Coordinate business validation to verify that a set of endtoend business processes function as intended.

Participate in peer reviews and inspections of user story maps epics user stories requirements documents and work products derived from those artifacts to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.

Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.

Support and provide input and recommendations to initiative sponsors and in key stakeholder decision making.

Assist with testing and support testing processes.

Analyze define and document requirements for objectoriented applications relational databases complex queries interfaces extraction processes reports and dashboards using multisystem data.

Lead the design and implementation for multifaceted complex application development projects in a fastpaced environment involving multiple stakeholders and IT functions.

Problemsolving in problem definition information gathering and research alternatives analysis applying creative solutions to unique and/or immediate problems and appropriate resolution implementation.

Communicate clearly present complex information to users in a comprehensive style and translate technical and system information for nontechnical stakeholders.

Collaborate work effectively as part of a team and maintain working relationships with all levels of business customers and technology staff.

Prioritize effectively across multiple inflight initiatives and requirements.

Provide knowledge transfer.

Desired Skills

Ten (10) years of experience in an IT Business Analyst role

Three (3) years of experience working as an IT Business Analyst on Agile project/product teams

Experience leading the business analysis for the implementation of Commercial offtheshelf (COTS) solutions.

Experience guiding stakeholders with workflow redesign to align with the implementation of new solutions and COTS specifications.

Experience with data migration efforts performing data mapping activities and working with data analysis tools such as Power BI Tableau SQL.

Experience with backlog management story writing and story refinement.

Experience working with Agile work management tools such as JIRA.

Leadership mentoring and coaching skills for IT professionals.

Experience performing and advanced knowledge of Quality Assurance and Project Management activities.

Scrum master experience.

Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)