Sr IT Business Analyst @ Waltham, MA

Immediate Need for Sr IT Business Analyst

Job title: Senior IT Business Analyst

Location: Waltham, MA

Duration: Long Term

Experience: 5-7 Years

Primary Role of the Senior Business Analyst is to act as the liaison between the business and IS organization to provide business critical or complex solutions that meet the user needs and improve business performance by providing the analysis of business requirements, problem solving and troubleshooting as part of a project delivery team. Accountable for ensuring that clear, concise requirements (business and technical) have been captured. Drive or participate in testing, drive issue resolution, deviations and support the production implementation process. Develop procedural documentation

Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field; or equivalent work experience.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience as a Senior Business Analyst role
• 5+ years of demonstrated experience in business and functional requirements elicitation, translation and documentation.
• 5+ years' experience in facilitating design and use case discussions
• 5+ years' experience in a SDLC environment
• Expert level analysis skills including ability to identify patterns, potential issues and then translate those into functional and test requirements.
• Expert level understanding of business functional areas and management issues as well as the IT organizations systems and capabilities.
• Ability to influence and build relationships and demonstrate team leadership in all interactions.
• Knowledge of and ability to effectively use the appropriate modelling methodologies and toolsets, requirements management methodologies and toolsets, requirements visualization methods and toolsets, and artifact versioning tools.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Communicates effectively with business clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
• Proven track record with planning, estimating and organizing effort for the WBS.
• Extensive experience in MSOffice, Visio

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have 3+years' experience in working in the Utility (Gas/Electric) domain with in a project setting.
• Working toward relevant industry certification (e.g. CEng, CITP, TOGAF, IIBA, ISEB diploma) desirable but not essential as part of career progression