Business Analyst

Business Analyst

Are you ready to build your career by joining an award-winning builder of luxury homes? If so, our client is hiring a Business Analyst. Position Type: Contract, Hybrid (3 days / week onsite).

Required:

• Bachelor's of Science or Arts Degree
• 3+ years' experience working with systems
• 3+ years' experience with an SDLC, system development methodologies and requirements gathering and including business process mapping
• Previous Business Analysis experience
• Ability to translate business needs into system specifications, familiar with agile framework and processes-Epic, Feature and Story, creation processes
• Experience working with project teams from project initiation to closing
• Excellent critical thinking, process analysis and mapping skills (Visio, Lucid)
• Strong collaboration, influencing, and listening skills
• Good oral and verbal communication skills

Preferred:

• PMI-PBA or CBAP (in good standing) or CAPM (in good standing)
• Agile Practice Certification – CSM or AAC
• Building or Construction experience

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the liaison between the business and IT departments of our company.
• The role requires to be detail-oriented and highly innovative to translate the business needs to IT solutions, and vice versa, with current programs, projects, and initiatives.
• Responsibilities include analysis and assessment needed for the identification of system requirements and functional definition of planned system changes within an application or in considering a new technology solution.
• Works with the project manager, the business, and IT Teams to identify and implement system solutions that support more efficient processes within a system as well as any areas that may impact the system performance.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• IT Strategy and Planning:
  • Demonstrates business and system expertise by problem solving, providing analysis and system solution options, functional specifications, executes project tasks.
  • Assists with the identification, analysis and resolution of issues of applications issues
  • Provides analysis needed to support new software implementation and enhancement business cases.
• User Experience Analysis:
  • Creates project level documentation for current state and future state solution, responsible for meeting notes, key decisions and risks.
  • Documents requirements for business requirement and design specifications
  • Works effectively within an agile framework, assisting in sprint planning, creating user stories and acceptance criteria; provide testing support and reporting support.
  • Provides documentation for business requirements and design specifications.
• Requirements Elicitation:
  • Facilitates requirements gathering sessions with different areas of the business to identify and solution for end-to-end solutions by incorporating business processes, re-engineering options, or new system functionality or capability
• Requirements Definition and Management:
  • Develops functional, reporting, security, technical requirements for the business groups and work closely with developers on design and testing.
  • Works closely with developers on the design, development and testing of system or reporting requirements.
  • Works closing with QA to support testing
• Quality Assurance:
  • Manages and coordinates project related tasks and activities and ensure completion timely to meet due dates.
  • Manages small project teams/projects as needed.
  • Can work with QA or act as unit tester for new functions and features to ensure business needs are met.
  • Works with the entire project team (project manager, quality assurance, and technical team) on the needed project or deployment support.
  • Acts as liaison between IT and the business groups
• Project Analysis:
  • Adept at conducting analysis into project-related issues and products.
  • Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment and drive solutions.
  • Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
  • Organize and disseminate complex information to stakeholders.
  • Identify and resolve constraints, risk, issues and key decisions
  • Clearly communicate project risks and issues to stakeholders
  • Strong collaboration, influencing, and listening skills
  • Can conform to shifting priorities, demands, and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills.
  • Tracking and Reporting
  • Create clear and concise documentation or information, including issue, risk & decision logs and status reports.
  • Assisting the PM or when leading small project teams.