Description

The overall purpose of this position is to be an IT advocate to the Business Users, responsible for supporting approved IT projects and socializing proposals IT receives from the business. The incumbent in this position is primarily responsible for both technical project management and business analysis, excelling in one of these areas. As a technical project manager, the incumbent produces project plans, regular status reports, and coordinates project related activity, taking a project from inception to completion. As a business analyst, the incumbent performs business and technical analysis related tasks, eliciting and developing user requirements and translating them into business requirements specifications, and providing systems analysis of present state and showing project future system state. The role typically reports to a Senior Manager or Director and manages 0 direct reports. This position works under general guidelines. He/she must have the ability to influence others, and will have some staff management responsibilities across matrix-based teams, projects and programs, utilizing both IT staff and the staff of other organizational units.

Requirements

Technical Project Management • Coordinate project activities to ensure successful and timely end-to-end implementation. Responsible for the overall success of the project. • Provide project updates and conducts status meetings. • Works through resolution of conflicts and impediments to ensure successful delivery and that the team is motivated. • Creates Project Plans. • Manages project and portfolio budgets. • Gather business and technical requirements • Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements sessions, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. • Evaluate critical information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs. • Define scope to generate system functional requirements. Recommend opportunities for business process improvements. • Interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. • Manages Documentation including Business Requirements Specifications, Use Cases and User Stories. Ensure that the documentation artifacts serve their purpose, are professional presented and are well organized for sharing. • Creates Business Cases, Business Requirements Specifications and Use Cases. • Maintains updates to these documents and stores them for the project team. • Business Liaison to Technology and tech teams • Liaise between business units, technology teams and support teams. • Lead the development team’s internal review of the requirements and ensure the common vision of the required deliverables • Represent the technical team to share the recommendations to the business regarding the project requirements and delivery strategies. Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision.