IT Business Analyst

Kforce is immediately seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst in support of our enterprise telecommunications and mass media client based in Maryland Heights, MO. Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead effective requirement elicitation sessions by ensuring all required stakeholders participate and escalate if needed
• Specify inputs and formatting outputs to meet user's needs
• Analyze business partner's operations to understand their strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes, functions, and systems
• Provide technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that are cost effective and meet user requirements
• Be an active project participant by offering feedback, guidance, and assistance to help meet project delivery dates
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• 4+ years of Business Analysis (BA) or Business Systems Analysis (BSA) experience
• Prior experience with Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• MS Visio or similar tool experience is needed; JIRA
• Basic understanding of databases and web services
• Basic understanding of Network structure and elements, system architecture
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Organizational skills; Coordination of meeting agendas, minutes, and action items
• The ability to write requirements that are clear, concise, testable and can be interpreted by development teams
• Ability to create a business process model (diagram) representing current and future processes
• Ability to work with little supervision
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and support multiple project assignments
• Ability to independently research topics using available tools like SharePoint and other document repositories
• Ability to see the -big picture- and determine how application changes will impact other systems
• Ability to recognize up/downstream dependencies

• Business Analyst Certification such as ECBA or CCBA
• Previous telecommunications experience as an analyst or in a similar role