We are currently seeking for Sr. Business Analysts to understand and analyze the clients’ current business problems/issues, current systems, current procedures, business needs, and the future goals through automation. Gather the businesses requirements accordingly and perform business requirements analysis using the best industry practices. Individuals will apply knowledge of requirements management, agile-scrum, and project management principles and concepts through out the project life cycles.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
Act as a liaison between the business and development/technical/scrum teams.
Facilitate the required meetings (JAD sessions), analyze the current workflow, understand the future goals, establish priorities, and perform gap analysis (As-Is & To-Be) .
Create Business Process Models (BPM) to visually/graphically depict the situations for better understanding of the problems.
Working with the Product Owner(PO) or as directed by the PO, gather the meaningful business requirements through necessary meetings (JAD or any other methods).
Analyze business requirements and needs and identify various risk, issues and dependencies on other ongoing and support projects. (If it is waterfall set up create the BRD, FRD, and other project documents accordingly based on the necessity.)
Work with the Product Owner (PO) to come up with the meaningful user stories that represent the business needs and final features/functionalities of the suggested systems.
Work with the PO to define the Acceptance Criteria, Prioritize the features and and create the Product Backlogs.
Meet with managers, supervisors, Scrum Masters, Scrum teams, and vendors to solicit cooperation and resolve issues.
Ability to review the project plans to plan and coordinate activities to meet project milestones.
Evaluate documentation including project status reports, and financial status reports.
Communicate effectively with key stakeholders and leadership on project status, risks & issues, risk mitigation plans.
Engage and educate developers on business context of solution.
Enforce change control process, as necessary and evaluate impact on project schedule, time, cost, quality.
May perform other duties, as assigned.
Sr Business Data Analyst/Business Data Analyst: Must be LOCAL to either Indiana or Georgia
– Perform all kinds of data analysis.
– Work cross-departmentally to influence decision makers and key stakeholders with their data-driven suggestions. MUST BE LOCAL to either Indiana or Georgia
– Early Career opportunity for Business Analyst/BSA/Data Science/Information Systems
– Need skills Python, R, SQL, Tableau, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, and SQL Server, as well as desktop-based
applications such as MS Access and MS Excel.
– Related transactional databases and data warehouses will be hosted in Azure or AWS
– Excellent communication skills including written, verbal, and technology illustrations.
– Understanding of Data Warehousing and data mining.
– Understanding of modeling strategies (dimensional, snowflake, relational, unstructured).
– Experience designing and delivering data mapping specifications for large reporting platforms. Writing
and maintaining business rules using SQL logic
– Demonstrated experience in writing ad-hoc SQL statements
– Strong interest in playing a technical data steward role across our business and technology partners to
understand and detail our data, appropriate
– Proven experience with ERD/Data Modelling tools (Toad or others).
– Experience in executing projects in an Agile / Hybrid environment
– Ability to challenge the legacy design and seek opportunities to design better models and better code.
– Demonstrated technical ability in learning new technologies and adapting to frequent changes in the
technical environment
– Experience with data reporting tools (Power BI, others)
– Ability to look at data in various formats, organize data for the agency to meet the needs of unique
program areas and enable the programs to effect
– Experience conceptualizing and visualizing data structures before they are drawn.
Qualification Needed:
Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Business Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, Technology, or any related field of study. We will accept a 3- or 4-year degree, and will accept a foreign degree.
Must have at least 7 years of experience as a BA or PO.
Skills needed:
Qualified applicants must also have demonstrable knowledge, proficiency and experience with the following:
Business Requirement Documents (BRD), Functional Requirements Documents (FRD/SRS), User Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Product Backlog, Use Case Documents, RTM
Full Software Development Life Cycle
Sound knowledge of SQL and some knowledge of Python/Java/C++ or similar
Working under Waterfall and Agile-scrum methodologies or set-ups
Creating test cases and using HP Quality Center, JIRA or similar testing tools
Tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MS SharePoint, MS Visio or similar
Any suitable combination of education, training or experience is acceptable. The term suitable, in this context, means substantial compatibility with stated academic level and job experience requirements and ability to perform job duties.
Additional Information:
Location: Many locations (remote or onsite)
Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Salary: Attractive and depends on the experience and educational qualifications.
