Description
BUSINESS ANALYST
The Business Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be they customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gather and compiling user requirements to understand the technology solutions they need. Role will involve going out to the lines, meeting with users, meeting with engineers, and use their skills to draw out requirements and not take surface-level responses – dig deeper.
This role is a long-term, multiyear contract employment opportunity with an exciting, technically progressive client based in the Marysville, Ohio, area. You will work with industry leading professionals for a fast paced, globally recognized company to help drive forward critical business initiatives.
TOP SKILLS
· Communication / strong people skills
· Talent for “digging deep” to understand existing applications and document planned enhancements
· Gather Business Requirements, not solutions – ability to work with business and weed through customer feedback – find the “what” and eliminate the “how”
· IT App Dev Experience (Mfg a plus)
· Ability to operate independently and deliver on schedules
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
· Sit with customer and understand requirements
· Ensure current state documents are complete and fully up to date
· Understand planned technology direction
· Create and manage user story backlog for planned enhancements
· Jira / Confluence experience required
· Development is typically Agile, project may run more Waterfall overall
Requirements
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS
· 7+ years of relevant IT Business Analyst work experience
· Experience gathering application development requirements
· Very strong communication / people skills
· Able to communicate between technical and non-technical teams
· Requirements elicitation – Drive consensus for a desired future state that meets the business problem and enterprise objectives.
· Requirements management and analysis – Understand business process complexity and influence business partner requirements in support of enterprise objectives.
· Designing for usability – Identify the requirements to ensure end-to-end service performance from the end user’s perspective.