IT Business Analyst - onsite

Columbus, Ohio

Contract

Posted 10/15/2024

Job Description

Our client has an onsite contract opportunity in Columbus, Ohio for an IT Business Analyst who will act as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium to large IT projects. The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation and translation to technology teams. The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

Top Skills Needed:

• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features, bugs and enhancements
• Act as a liaison between business and technical teams, facilitating communication to ensure mutual understanding and alignment on project goals and requirements.
• Assist in backlog prioritization and grooming activities
• Ability to turn functional and non-functional requirements into user stories with detailed acceptance criteria.
• Familiarity with the Gherkin framework for documenting user stories
• Manage the CAB change management process for your projects
• Coordinate the QAT and UAT activities in support of your user stories

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• CBAP Certification preferred.
• 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects
• Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition and solution evaluation
• Strong facilitation, critical / analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile / Lean methodologies
• Excellent MS-Excel, SQL and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption
• Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Strong Business Acumen
• Experience in defining and maturing business capability road maps

Responsibilities:

• Serves the business working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions.
• As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives and scope of new projects
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner
• Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs
• Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements
• Translate technical solutions and constraints to business
• Develops business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit
• Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities
• Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities
• Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives
• Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project

Job ID:

1007454

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