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Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a rapidly growing educational service company that has long been an industry leader in providing educational, operational and technological support services to the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still works closely with GCU to benefit thousands of students, families and the local inner-city community. We put people first, drive innovation, and do good in the community that we live and work in.
Must reside in the Phoenix, AZ area.
Grand Canyon Education is currently seeking an IT Business Analyst. As a Business Analyst you are responsible for meeting with stakeholders, understanding functional needs and desired outcomes, communicating needs (typically in form of user stories) to the impacted team(s) and effectively tracking relevant items through the Software Development Life Cycle. This includes, but is not limited to helping prioritize work along with participating in functional testing to confirm that desired outcomes are aligned to the long-term vision. As a business analyst, you are a change agent. You will help facilitate the gathering of strategic ideas which are then translated into actionable user stories. You will also help prioritize and track requests, and test and deliver solutions to the business.
Requirements:
- Elicit requirements from stakeholders using a variety of tools
- Validate requirements through visual aids / mock-ups
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs
- Communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze informational needs and functional requirements and provide user stories, interface design documents, and screen mock-ups
- Engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously
- Work independently with stakeholders and users to define concepts
- Update management regarding issues, concerns, and progress statuses
- Develop requirements specifications according to team standards
- Collaborate with development and other subject matter experts to analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
- Support business users in the evaluation, integration and utilization of software tools that streamline business processes and enable better decision making
- Help coordinate user acceptance testing
- Help manage the release process
- Support management and senior business analysts in achieving business goals, and applying departmental guidelines and processes
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business or information technology or minimum of two years of professional experience defining business requirements for software applications
- Experience with Microsoft Excel
- Working knowledge of entire development process, including specification, documentation, quality assurance, and production support
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work independently and in teams as well as ability to work with a diverse group of stakeholders
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain business relationships
- Customer-focused and able to act with tact, diplomacy and professionalism
- Willingness to explore processes and systems in depth to produce evaluations and documentation
- Ability to translate information between technical and business teams, ensuring expectations are clear on both sides
- Proficient with the MS Office Suite of products
- Willingness to incorporate feedback from management and senior business analysts
- Understand how to translate technical requirements to nontechnical stakeholders
- Aptitude for solving problems and managing process flow
- An understanding of Agile SDLC methodology and the ability to articulate that understanding to stakeholders
- The ability to write a User Story within an Agile SDLC
- Professional demeanor with the ability to demonstrate dedication and support for IT’s business objectives in support of GCU
- Basic understanding of the development process including specification, documentation, quality assurance, and production support
- Provide a positive example to students by supporting the University’s Doctrinal Statement, Ethical Position Statement and Mission of Grand Canyon University
- Preferred T-SQL experience
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What We Do
Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is an educational service company that provides an array of support services in the post-secondary education sector. Formerly part of Grand Canyon University (GCU), GCE still supports and works closely with GCU. GCE designs and develops educational programs for GCU and other traditional campus institutions, as well as online partner institutions at the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.
At Grand Canyon Education, we value our employees and support a unique and diverse workplace culture designed to help you thrive. We offer a wide variety of career opportunities across various departments. For job opportunities, please visit https://jobs.gce.com/
In addition Grand Canyon Education has been recognized as one of America’s Most Trusted Companies 2022 by Newsweek and Statista. We have also been identified as a leader in remote work as we have been named to FlexJobs' 9th annual list of the Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs! Finally, we have been praised for our commitment to cultivating an engaging and attractive workplace by Top Workplaces USA.
