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Business Systems Analyst | $/hr | Remote | Contract LOOKING FOR Business Systems Analyst | $50/hr | Remote | Contract JOB AT Columbus, OH
Responsibilities
- Manages ongoing relationship with business partner (Product) to drive satisfaction with IT (GTech).
- Coordinates project delivery by facilitating design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate systems designs and validate proposed solutions.
- Obtains key inputs from enterprise architecture team and identifies solution interdependencies.
- Engages with UI/UX team to incorporate usability and user interface needs when designing applications and feature enhancements.
- Serve as a key GTech liaison to Product and other GTech departments that have specific business functions.
- Collaborate with multiple Product, Shared Services and Backend Data teams to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide technology solutions.
- Responsible for taking high level requirements and Acceptance Criteria provided by the Product team, refining Epics and Stories to Dev Ready.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into detailed data, abstract-up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
- Perform current state analysis of existing business systems, applications, data and functions.
- Answer questions and clarify requirements for projects and enhancements during the estimation, refinement, development and QA process.
- Responsible for developing and maintaining requirements traceability and facilitating refinement sessions.
- Mentor and coach less senior BSA team members.
- Works independently and proactively to meet Refinement deadlines, i.e., ensuring the backlog is always adequately filled with fully refined stories.
Skills & Experience
- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.
- Be an independent problem solver with the ability to creatively translate business data/requirements into technical solutions.
- Have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Anticipate change and quickly prioritize accordingly.
- Be passionate about software and technology. Stay current on industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent facilitation and organizational skills.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline.
- 8+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst or other related field.
- 8+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in software development.
- Experience planning, facilitating, eliciting, documenting and managing business, functional and technical requirements.
- Experience with both traditional Waterfall SDLC and Agile / Lean methodologies.
- Experience with Microsoft Products; Excel, Word and Visio.
- Experience with project tools such as JIRA and Confluence (or other Agile tools).