Position Description:

CGI is looking for a Business Analyst responsible for identifying and documenting the business needs of their clients and stakeholders and helping to determine feasible solutions to meet business needs or resolve business problems. This position will give you the opportunity to grow to become an active thought partner and solution visionary who shapes the technology demand and direction in the business community

This role is based in Houston, Texas.

Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Precisely capture business problems, value drivers, and functional/non-functional requirements, including health, safety, security, usability, data, and supportability considerations. • Translate business requirements into functionality and assess the risks, feasibility, opportunities, and business impacts of various solution options. • Assess and model processes, data flows, and technology to understand the current value and issues, and identify opportunities for improvement. • Create clear documentation to communicate requirements and related information; keep updated to align with the solution over the project lifecycle. • Ensure traceability of requirements from business needs and requirements, through testing and scope changes, to final solution.• Interact with software suppliers, designers and developers to understand software limitations, deliver elements of system and database design, and ensure that business requirements and use cases are handled. • Configure and document software and processes, using agreed standards and tools. • Create acceptance criteria and validate that solutions meet business needs through defining and coordinating testing. • Create and present compelling business cases to justify solution value and establish approval, funding and prioritization. • Initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control Business Analysis activities on projects within agreed parameters of cost, time and quality.• Understand and stay abreast of relevant architectures and technologies related to a business area. • Research potential solutions and innovative ideas. • Guide and manage interactions with technology vendors.• Lead stakeholder management activities including facilitation of large design sessions. • Respond to organizational and environmental changes during in-progress activities. • Guide business stakeholders to gain acceptance / sign-off despite competing objectives. Manage requirements to the smallest set that will provide the biggest impact in advancing business objectives and end-user buy-in. • Describe technology in terms easily understood by business customers and set realistic customer expectations for the project outcome. Adjust customer expectations in accordance with changes in scope.• Generate innovative approaches to existing problems or new opportunities. • Work closely with stakeholders to build trust and understand their goals, motivations, constraints, risks, and operating environment.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Agile project experience.• Good understanding and experience of the various Agile frameworks.• Experience working in Agile projects and educating stakeholders including Product Owners and Business partners in Agile ways of working.• Experience in Agile tooling (ex -VSTS) is a must.• Agile certifications/trainings preferred.• Understanding of systems engineering concepts and data/process analysis and modeling.• Knowledge of the technology landscape including current and future developments.
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Skills:

• Business Analysis
• Data Analysis
• Data Modeling

What you can expect from us:

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners and owners who enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today - one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

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