Senior Business Analyst (Oracle / SQL / Requirements Analysis / Enterprise Projects)
Defined Software Development, LLC · Tallahassee, FL · 2 wk ago
Business DevelopmentFull-time
Overview
We are seeking an experienced Business Analyst to support enterprise technology initiatives within a large and complex organizational environment. This role will serve as a critical liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, helping to define requirements, document business processes, support system implementations, and ensure successful project outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary liaison between business units and technical teams to identify, analyze, and document business requirements.
- Facilitate requirements gathering sessions, workshops, interviews, and stakeholder meetings.
- Produce and maintain business requirements documents, functional specifications, process flows, use cases, traceability matrices, and testing documentation.
- Analyze existing business processes and identify opportunities for improvement and standardization.
- Support solution design efforts by translating business needs into technical requirements.
- Cook up communication among business stakeholders, project teams, vendors, and leadership.
- Coordinate project planning, status meetings, and implementation activities.
- Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and user acceptance testing activities.
- Validate application functionality, reports, dashboards, and data integrity.
- Ensure project documentation is accurate, complete, reviewed, and approved.
- Assist with risk identification, issue resolution, and contingency planning.
- Support multiple concurrent projects within a program or portfolio environment.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings and collaborative project activities as required.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- Minimum 7 years of experience gathering, analyzing, and documenting business and technical requirements.
- Minimum 7 years of experience working with Oracle and SQL-based systems.
- Minimum 7 years of experience producing technical documentation, including:
- Business Requirements Documents (BRDs)
- Functional Specifications
- Traceability Matrices
- Design Documentation
- Test Documentation
- Minimum 7 years of experience facilitating business and technical meetings.
- Minimum 7 years of experience supporting application testing, reporting validation, dashboard testing, and large data-set analysis.
- Minimum 7 years of experience developing meeting documentation, business analyses, and training materials.
- Minimum 2 years of web application development experience.
- Minimum 1 year of experience with Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio .NET.
- Advanced proficiency with:
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- Visio
- Project
- PowerPoint
- SharePoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting Governance, Project Management, or Project Portfolio Management initiatives.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise implementations involving multiple technologies and stakeholder groups.
- Experience working with software and hardware vendors.
- Experience working within government, education, public sector, or highly regulated environments.
- Experience supporting projects within a program management structure consisting of multiple interrelated projects.
Desired Skills
- Requirements Elicitation
- Business Process Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Process Mapping
- Data Analysis
- Technical Writing
- Change Management
- Risk Management
- Enterprise Application Support
- SDLC Methodologies
- Agile and Waterfall Project Environments
Key Competencies
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent facilitation and presentation abilities
- Critical thinking and problem-solving
- Relationship management and collaboration
- Ability to manage competing priorities and stakeholder expectations
- Strong attention to detail and organizational skills