Business Systems Analyst

About the role

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

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.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to lead others to implement new approaches, systems, structures, and methods.
• Strong experience in developing, executing, and managing cloud hosted SaaS implementation projects.
• Experience with automated requirements/development management tools.
• Ability to analyze and document system processes.
• 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.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $55.00 – $59.00/hr. Individual compensation offered within this range will depend on qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Schedule

This is a hybrid position in Richmond, VA.