Business Analyst

Ideal Candidate Profile

Seeking a Sr Business Analyst with a technical background to support software development IT Projects using a mix of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid Methodologies.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Perform all tasks related to business analysis, including problem/opportunity identification, elicitation of requirements, and management of stakeholders to meet business and project objectives.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Facilitate collaboration and knowledge transfer between stakeholders and the development team
• Work with other BSAs, Data Analysts, Business Architect, Development, and Data Governance teams to ensure the needs of these partners are incorporated into project requirements.
• Develop user acceptance tests and facilitate their execution and business validation discussions and meetings.

Required Skills & Experience

• Exceptional interpersonal skills for leading, collaborating, and building strong team relationships with diverse teams on large projects
• Extensive experience leading business and IT resources through the discovery and documentation of business and technical requirements
• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects
• Experience With Automated Requirements/development Management Tools
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the demonstrated ability to simplify and communicate complex issues and technical concepts to multiple audiences
• Knowledge of both Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid project management practices and when to apply each according to organizational and project needs
• Ability to build & provide meaningful project health information and insights to business & IT Leadership
• Ability accurately and effectively represent the project team in multiple forums and to all levels of leadership
• Ability to exercise and act on independent judgment
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt
• Highly motivated and self-directed
• Skilled in the use of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Visio

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical background
• Experience in healthcare projects
• Experience with Data Modernization & Enterprise Data Warehouse
• PMP Certification through PMI or Qualified under Commonwealth of Virginia Qualification Standards
• Experience with VITA's Commonwealth Technology Portfolio (CTP) system and ECOS process
• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner