IT Lead Business Analyst

Areas of Responsibility

• Captures and coordinates meetings to define key capabilities and requirements that will enable stakeholders to define business strategy.
• Evaluates business requests to determine feasibility; researches and identifies options; recommends solutions that best serve business needs.
• Serves as the primary interface between business partners and the IT team; presents formal presentations to end users, stakeholders, and management.
• Leads structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
• Leads acceptance testing to ensure client/user needs are met. Presents information regarding enhancements and tracks and responds to questions from business and IT team members.
• Identifies potential problems that may arise with new or enhanced applications; communicates how problems will affect business; recommends solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven track record of taking initiative and driving a plan effectively
• Ability to effectively manage time and multi-task
• Displayed leadership and team centric skills and strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent at building and maintaining relationships across IT and business partners
• Secure in independent judgment and autonomous decision making
• Experience serving as the primary interface between the user and an IT team
• Comfortable preparing and delivering informal and formal presentations to own team, department, other IT teams, senior leadership, and business partners

Required

• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities
• 4+ years of experience as a Sr Business Analyst, including working as part of a project team to coordinate activities of project phases, preferably in an IT environment
• 3+ years of experience with Postman and/or SoapUI
• Experience with Swagger tool
• Experience leading medium to large-scale projects
• Experience with task automation and process improvements
• Experience writing technical documentation, including Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) preferably using Confluence
• Experience using Jira
• Understanding of SDLC stages
• Experience with APIs
• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• Must reside in St. Louis, Missouri, or immediate surrounding area
• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities
• 4+ years of experience as a Sr Business Analyst, including working as part of a project team to coordinate activities of project phases, preferably in an IT environment
• 3+ years of experience with Postman and/or SoapUI
• Experience with Swagger tool
• Experience leading medium to large-scale projects
• Experience with task automation and process improvements
• Experience writing technical documentation, including Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) preferably using Confluence
• Experience using Jira
• Understanding of SDLC stages
• Experience with APIs

Preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred
• Scrum certification
• Experience using SQL
• Experience in large-scale enterprise applications and processes

Benefits

• Market-competitive pay
• Comprehensive healthcare packages
• 401k matching & profit sharing
• Schedule flexibility
• Work from home opportunities
• Paid time off
• Organizational growth potential

Pay

TBD

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule, including the ability to work from home, while also requiring to be in person as needed at our Lakeside and/or Clayton Corporate HQ campus locations in St. Louis, Missouri.