Sr. Business Analyst
Robert Half · Richmond, VA · 2 days ago
On-siteAnalystTemporary
Key Responsibilities
- Lead business analysis activities, including problem identification, requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, and solution definition.
- Elicit, document, analyze, validate, and manage business and technical requirements throughout the project lifecycle.
- Ensure requirements are complete, consistent, feasible, and aligned with project goals and organizational standards.
- Create process flows, specifications, diagrams, models, and other documentation to support development and implementation efforts.
- Facilitate requirement reviews and ensure development teams clearly understand business needs.
- Track and manage requirements, change requests, and project impacts throughout implementation.
- Communicate requirement updates, enhancements, and modifications to project managers, sponsors, and stakeholders.
- Foster collaboration and knowledge transfer between business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Partner with Business Analysts, Data Analysts, Architects, Developers, and Data Governance teams to ensure cross-functional requirements are addressed.
- Develop User Acceptance Testing (UAT) plans, coordinate testing activities, and facilitate business validation sessions.
- Provide project status insights and meaningful reporting to business and IT leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience leading business and technical requirements discovery, analysis, and documentation efforts.
- Strong background supporting software development and IT project implementations.
- Experience working with Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project methodologies.
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and guide adoption of new systems, processes, and technologies.
- Experience supporting cloud-hosted SaaS implementation projects.
- Proficiency with requirements management and development lifecycle tools.
- Strong process analysis and documentation skills.
- Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making abilities.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to provide project insights and effectively communicate with all levels of leadership.
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
Preferred Qualifications
- Technical or systems analysis background.
- Experience supporting healthcare-related technology projects.
- Experience with data modernization, data warehousing, or large-scale data initiatives.
- PMP Certification or equivalent project management credentials.
- Experience working within government, public-sector, or highly regulated environments.
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification or related cloud certifications.