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Business Analyst

Direct Hire

MUST BE ABLE TO WORK IN THE U.S. WITHOUT SPONSORSHIP.

TECHEAD is seeking a Business Analyst to join our team. As a Business Analyst your tasks will include but may not be limited to:

The Business Requirements Analyst’s role is to elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of project stakeholders, whether they are customers or end users. This includes interviewing stakeholders and gathering and compiling user requirements to convey to development teams throughout the software lifecycle. The Business Requirements Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help support the development process, and to ensure that project deliverables are met according to specifications. The Business Requirements Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT understanding of business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Planning
• Collaborate with project managers and project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements through workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Acquisition and Deployment
• Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts.
• Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure that the features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
• Operational Management
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/the project team.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options, and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members.

Position Requirements

Formal Education and Certification

• College diploma or university degree in the field of business administration, computer science, finance, or information systems and two to five years of related work experience.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrated knowledge of the organization’s core business process and operations.
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development.
• Experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products.
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language.
• Ability to apply statistical and other research methods into systems, issues, and products as required.
• Clear understanding of product management and market placement.
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources.
• Understanding of application development and software development life cycle concepts.
• Working technical knowledge of programming languages.
• Working knowledge of network and PC operating systems.
• Working knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and standards.
• Extensive experience with the organization’s core software applications.
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives.

Work Conditions

• Overtime hours may be required to meet project deadlines.
• Sitting for extended periods of time.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other devices and objects.
• Physically able to participate in training sessions, presentations, and meetings.
• Some travel may be required for the purpose of off-site software installation and system startups.

TECHEAD's mission is to make our on-site associates successful by placing them in the right environment so they can grow and prosper. How we treat and respond to our clients and employees reflects who we are and makes us stand out from the rest. Keeping our business focused on building and maintaining relationships with our employees and clients is the key to our success. We won’t strive for anything less.

TECHEAD provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. For more information on TECHEAD please visit www.techead.com. No second parties will be accepted.