Senior Business Analyst

Responsibilities

• Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs.
• Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies.
• Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective.
• Familiar with industry standard business process mapping, and reengineering.
• Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc.
• Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.
• Strong experience as a Business/Data Analyst performing requirements elicitation, business process analysis, data profiling, source-to-target mapping, data validation, and complex SQL analysis in large enterprise or government environments.
• Proven ability to document BRDs, functional requirements, business rules, KPIs, data dictionaries, and data lineage while collaborating with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and reporting teams throughout the SDLC.
• Experience supporting data governance, gap analysis, UAT, and enterprise reporting/analytics initiatives with strong communication and facilitation skills.

Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills (10 yrs)
• Experience as a Business Analyst/Business Data Analyst gathering, analyzing, and documenting business requirements in an enterprise IT environment, including state government or large enterprise settings following formal SDLC processes (8 yrs)
• Experience analyzing and documenting business processes, including current-state (as-is) and future-state (to-be) process flows and data flow diagrams (8 yrs)
• Experience performing data analysis and documentation, including profiling, validation, and documentation of data elements, definitions, and business rules (8 yrs)
• Extensive hands-on experience writing and interpreting SQL (complex queries, joins, aggregations) to perform data analysis, validation, and ad hoc investigation directly against relational databases
• Demonstrated experience extensively engaging with business stakeholders to elicit, clarify, and validate requirements through workshops, interviews, and facilitated sessions (8 yrs)
• Experience translating business requirements into functional/data requirements documents and business requirement documents (BRDs) for technical teams (8 yrs)
• Experience defining and documenting business measures, metrics, and KPIs, and working with reporting/analytics teams to define report specifications and data sourcing requirements (8 yrs)
• Experience performing gap analysis between current business processes/data and desired future-state outcomes (8 yrs)
• Experience supporting User Acceptance Testing (UAT), including development of test scenarios/test cases based on documented requirements (8 yrs)
• Min 5 years of experience, served as a liaison between the Business community and Customer IT Teams (i.e., Architecture, Project