Business Analyst Technical- ETRM, Energy
Contractor with opportunity to convert to FTE
8+ years of relevant experience
Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Agile methodologies, incl. Scrum
Hybrid, based in Houston, able to be in the office 4 days a week. Mon- Thurs, Friday work from home
Energy Experience Required !!
ETRM Experience Required !!
Overview:
Job Summary
Working closely with the Business Product Owner you will act as a liaison between technical staff and business. Coordinate with users and consultants to determine and document business and user requirements, process flow definitions, and functional specifications. Responsible for document repositories, maintenance, and updates of project documentation library. Assists project team with gaining business user acceptance. Reviews progress and evaluates results for accuracy and efficiency.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Works with management and individual team leaders by contributing strategic vision and integrating a broad range of ideas regarding business solutions development.
- Assists with project plans and coordinates resources to accomplish project tasks.
- Conducts business processes and systems analysis while considering the business implications to the current and future business environment.
- Assists with deliverables, cost, schedule, and quality of one or more enterprise solutions projects.
- Reviews progress and evaluates results for accuracy and efficiency.
- Works with internal and external customers, suppliers, and other partners to resolve problems, respond to suggestions for improvement and enhancements, test, refine, and institutionalize solutions.
- Drives the project(s) and the organization toward achieving business results.
- Conduct functional analysis for target features of digital platform
- Analyze current and target platform features and functionality
- Research functional and technical systems and processes to discover key gaps to enable functionality
- Develop recommendations to resolve any functionality gaps
- Facilitate scoping and estimation sessions within Scrum Teams
- Work with Scrum Teams to enumerate functional and technical Tasks required to enable features and functionality
- Facilitate story and task-creation with Scrum Team
- Assist in maintaining User Story Backlog to support Scrum Team
- Decompose features and functionality into well-formed User Stories to enable cross-functional communication
- Document findings in an accessible and organized manner
- Ensure User Stories contain all necessary information and data
- Maintain Backlog platform and tools (e.g. JIRA)
- Ensure that Backlog is current and well-groomed
Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities
Effective communicator with the ability to lead and influence others
QA testing, business analyst methodologies, system design and analysis
Training skills
Proficient in Jira, Confluence, Agile methodologies, incl. Scrum
- Key Competencies
Building Partnerships Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one s area and other areas, teams, departments, units, or organizations to help achieve business goals.
Building Trust Interacting with others in a way that gives them confidence in one s intentions and those of the organization.
Decision Making Identifying and understanding issues, problems, and opportunities; comparing data from different sources to draw conclusions; using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; taking action that is consistent with available facts, constraints, and probable consequences.
High-Impact Communication Clearly and succinctly conveying information and ideas to individuals and groups in a variety of situations; communicating in a focused and compelling way that drives others thoughts and actions.
Planning and Organizing Establishing courses of action for self and others to ensure that work is completed efficiently.