Job title: Senior IT Business Analyst
Location: Waltham, MA
Duration: Long Term
Experience: 5-7 Years
Primary Role of the Senior Business Analyst is to act as the liaison between the business and IS organization to provide business critical or complex solutions that meet the user needs and improve business performance by providing the analysis of business requirements, problem solving and troubleshooting as part of a project delivery team. Accountable for ensuring that clear, concise requirements (business and technical) have been captured. Drive or participate in testing, drive issue resolution, deviations and support the production implementation process. Develop procedural documentation
Skills:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field; or equivalent work experience.
· 5-7 years of relevant experience as a Senior Business Analyst role
· 5+ years of demonstrated experience in business and functional requirements elicitation, translation and documentation.
· 5+ years’ experience in facilitating design and use case discussions
· 5+ years’ experience in a SDLC environment
· Expert level analysis skills including ability to identify patterns, potential issues and then translate those into functional and test requirements.
· Expert level understanding of business functional areas and management issues as well as the IT organizations systems and capabilities.
· Ability to influence and build relationships and demonstrate team leadership in all interactions.
· Knowledge of and ability to effectively use the appropriate modelling methodologies and toolsets, requirements management methodologies and toolsets, requirements visualization methods and toolsets, and artifact versioning tools.
· Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Communicates effectively with business clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
· Proven track record with planning, estimating and organizing effort for the WBS.
· Extensive experience in MSOffice, Visio
· Preferred Qualifications
· Have 3+years’ experience in working in the Utility (Gas/Electric) domain with in a project setting.
· Working toward relevant industry certification (e.g. CEng, CITP, TOGAF, IIBA, ISEB diploma) desirable but not essential as part of career progression
Education: .
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field; or equivalent work experience.
· 5-7 years of relevant experience as a Senior Business Analyst role
Additional InformationSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a similar field, or equivalent work experience
- 5-7 years of relevant experience as a Senior Business Analyst
- 5+ years of experience eliciting, translating, and documenting business and functional requirements
- 5+ years of experience facilitating design and use-case discussions
- 5+ years of experience in a software development life cycle environment
- Expert-level analytical skills, including identifying patterns and potential issues and translating them into functional and test requirements
- Expert-level understanding of business functional areas, management issues, IT systems, and IT capabilities
- Ability to influence stakeholders, build relationships, and demonstrate team leadership
- Knowledge of modeling methodologies and tools, requirements management methodologies and tools, requirements visualization methods and tools, and artifact versioning tools
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Proven track record planning, estimating, and organizing work breakdown structure efforts
- Extensive experience with Microsoft Office and Visio
- 3+ years of experience working in the gas or electric utility domain in a project setting
- Working toward a relevant industry certification such as CEng, CITP, TOGAF, IIBA, or ISEB diploma
What We Do
XpertTech is an IT and business-process outsourcing company that helps businesses operate and scale through staffing, managed IT services, mobile and other application development, digital marketing, finance and accounting, and HR and payroll solutions. It provides remote professionals and dedicated support across operational functions, combining technology services with back-office outsourcing to reduce overhead and streamline day-to-day business processes for growing organizations.
