Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst

TrueBridge strives to exceed our clients' expectations and place talented individuals in high impact and fulfilling roles. We have specialized Talent Advisors who cover Project/Program Management, Business Analysis, Data & Analytics, Information Security, Finance, Technical Support, Application Development, and IT Infrastructure roles.

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Job Description

Serve as liaison between the business community and the IT Application Development (AD) organization to provide technical solutions that meet user needs. Responsible for clearly understanding the real business goals, which often means using probing questions to help the business partners better understand and articulate those goals. Will also analyze business partner operations to understand their strengths / weaknesses and determine opportunities to improve / automate processes and functions.

Understand evolving business and technical standards and policies and conform to them

Responsible for capturing business requirements from business partners and translating them into functional specifications that are accurately understood in the same way by all on the cross-functional development team.

This involves writing "User Stories" in many cases. Can also include writing Use Cases and scenarios

Responsible for managing communications with the business partners to ensure that requirements are provided in line with project schedules

Negotiate deliverables by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and IT from initial requirements to final implementation.

Promptly communicate with the Project Manager regarding any issues that might cause delay, and provide status as needed

Facilitate cross-functional team requirements/specification workshops to ensure that the real business requirements are understood and that the written specifications accurately and clearly express them.

Define acceptance criteria for each requirement and translate that criteria into actionable acceptance tests

Facilitate User Story grooming discussions

Understand the technical platform so as to articulate functional requirements/specifications in a way that comprehends and harmonizes with it

Participate in high-level solution design discussions

Participate in high-level project estimating; provide effort estimate for BA work on projects

Follow rigorous SDLC and project management life cycle and best practices, comply with internal Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and other compliance related processes and adhere to Change Control and Problem Management procedures.

Participate in the recommendation of buy vs. build vs. re-use decisions.

Serve as liaison with Quality Management to ensure test and integration plans meet requirement objectives

Plan, conduct, and may direct the analysis of complex business issues to be solved with process changes and information systems

Apply a broad knowledge of various business processes and functions and technical expertise to accurately anticipate organizational impacts

Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience:

Retirement financial services domain experience

Excellent communication skills, analytical skills, and a highly professional attitude

5+ years in a technology driven organization

5+ years capturing requirements and translating to functional and non-functional specifications

Must be able to facilitate business requirements gathering and definition in various formats including joint collaboration sessions with business and IT, targeted Q&A sessions with multiple Subject Matter Experts, and one-on-one user interviews in order to provide solutions that meet business and user needs.

Must have experience working with technical resources and the ability to communicate and interpret inwardly to IT and outwardly to the business

Must understand the institutional financial services industry in order to immediately work closely with group leads to come up to speed

Experience in data mapping with ability to analyze databases and schemas with limited guidance

Ability to manage multiple initiatives

Must understand Agile methodologies

Able to operate in a geographically distributed environment

Preferred Additional Skills & Experience:

Experience with conducting specification workshops

Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD)

Experience with Specification by Example

Technical experience with the rational tool kit (especially Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Rational Requirements Composer (now called Rational DOORS Next Generation))

Experience in developing user stories and requirements for workflow systems

Insurance knowledge desired

Charlotte location preferred but not mandatory