Note: Hybrid position - 3 days onsite

Must Haves:

• Responsible for gathering and documenting the business requirements and ensuring that the deliverables produced by the development effort conform to the business requirements.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements in such a way that technology solutions can be determined.
• Identify and quantify risks relevant to business and systems requirements, delivery timelines and quality.

Description

Responsibilities:

• Provide a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
• Interact with business stakeholders and subject matter experts to understand their requirements by gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• Prepare and advise on business analysis policies, processes, best practices, and standards to promote a consistent business analysis practice within the organization.

General Skills:

• Lead and conduct business analysis to assess clients' business problems/opportunities and document business requirements for determining I&IT solutions.
• Apply re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost-effective service delivery approaches.
• Lead and conduct business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project phases, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture, Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Develop strategies, prepare business cases, cost-benefit analyses, and conduct feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives.
• Develop sound processes for requirements gathering, including JAD sessions, interviews, mockups, etc.
• Conduct business modeling, use case modeling, conceptual and logical data modeling, process and data flow modeling, use case surveys, business rules definition, and non-functional requirements definition for assigned projects.
• Monitor progress, resolve problems, and report regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders.
• Develop performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conduct follow-up.

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Business Analytical Skills and Competencies (60%)

• Responsible for gathering and documenting the business requirements and ensuring that the deliverables produced by the development effort conform to the business requirements.
• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess client's business problems/opportunities and document the business requirements in such a way that technology solutions can be determined.
• Promotes business improvements through alternative service delivery approaches.
• Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail, appropriate to the project and phases of project, aligning with OPS Unified Project Management Methodology, Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process, and OPS Standard Systems Development Methodologies.
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definition for assigned projects.
• Develops performance measures for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up.
• Drives the user acceptance testing process, including preparation of acceptance criteria, review of the test plans and scenarios, review of test results as well as end to end testing. In some cases, the Business Analyst also executes test cases and directly ensures system integrity.
• Develop and design deliverables, including (and not limited to) integration requirements, data schemas, and design documentation, as well as the business's implementation and conversion strategies and plans.

Data Migration Expertise (10%)

• Assist with data migration activities such as development of legacy extract specifications, data cleansing requirements and quality assurance testing.

Communication and Collaborative Skills (30%)

• Act as liaison for cross-functional team, including vendor and business partners.
• Organize business and internal team meetings to identify and validate business and system requirements.
• Identify and quantify risks relevant to business and systems requirements, delivery timelines and quality.
• Coordinate and communicate various aspects of the project, including producing status reports, meeting minutes, issue logs, and informing cross-functional teams of decisions and progress.
• Monitor progress, resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and clients' decision makers.
• Schedule and mediate team meetings, follow up on issues, obtain concurrence from project stakeholders on completion of documented deliverables.