Candidates MUST have 4+ years recent business requirements/metrics and statistical research analysis with working knowledge of compliance, risk, software and utility/energy industry and related technologies such as AI/ML, players, and domain knowledge.

Job Title: IT Business Analyst
Duration : 6+ months (potential to extend beyond contract period)
Location : 1 WTC, Portland, Oregon 97204
WFH in PST time zone only; will ship a laptop to anyone non-local

Key Skills :• JIRA for requirements tracking and test scenarios• Data visualization tools like Tableau for sharing business outcomes• Agile and lean principles• SQL to query data• Basic understanding of data lake, data warehouses• Preferred experience in or knowledge of utilities business domains and/or IT environment

Job Description:
The role will be assigned to multiple projects in the role of a business analyst. Our client wants to enable data driven decisions across the company and external stakeholders by ensuring secure, reliable and cataloged data access from our data lake and delivering insights utilizing advanced AI/ML approaches to support achieving their goal to provide energy that is safe, clean, reliable, affordable and secure.

We are looking for a Business Analyst who will collaborate with the business partners to collect requirements, benefits metrics towards data solutions. They will work closely with the Business SME's, Information Architect, Data Architect, Data Engineer, and to design and develop data solutions to cater business values and end-user experience. Through their work, they will lay foundation of best practices and framework that other business analysts can follow.

The ideal candidate has the drive to understand the business domain, collect requirements/metrics, validate that the completed data solutions meet the requirements, measure, and report outcomes. They must be comfortable at elicitation of requirements and benefits tracking amidst ambiguity and able to convey their idea clearly to stakeholders. They should be great communicators and presenters even to high-level executives

Job Requirements:• Requirements Gathering - Manage requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation processes to capture business and end user needs towards data solutions.• Prioritization - Prioritize needs within and across projects based on business impact and groom the backlog• Collaborate with data engineers and scientists -Engage with the data engineers, data scientists and data architects to communicate business vision and priorities• Benefits & outcomes tracking - Elicit metrics and KPIs to track towards benefits for the data products. Measure and report outcomes towards the metrics and KPIs tracked.• Validate - Test the data solutions towards the requirements and completeness.
• Collaborate with Stakeholders - Works with peers and business stakeholders to identify the business requirements and expected outcomes. With peer and business stakeholder support, models and frames meaningful and impactful business scenarios for critical business processes and/or decisions.• Analyze Data - Assists in developing data and analytics products to improve how business is conducted and increases throughput through operational efficiencies. Being able to analyze data to provide inputs to business towards data driven decision making. Shares data quality findings with data stewards and partners with data stewards on data quality definition and standards; .
• Educate - Follow the overall best practices and guidelines in documenting requirements, test scenarios, test cases and metrics tacking. Fill in gaps and suggests improvements as necessary.

Experience: • Typically, two or more years in related field.• Preferred experience in or knowledge of utilities business domains and/or IT environment

Education requirements: Requires a bachelor's degree in business, computer science, engineering, management or other related field or equivalent experience.

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