Business Analyst

SESLOC Credit Union; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

SESLOC Credit Union is seeking an experienced service-focused, tech-savvy Business Analyst to join our team in California. Identify opportunities to improve services and products for SESLOC members and employees through technology and process improvements.

As a liaison between IT and other departments, you will translate business needs into technology solutions, leverage application capabilities, manage vendor relationships, and ensure end users derive maximum value from enterprise systems.

Qualifications

• Two-year college degree or completion of specialized course of study at business or trade school or a relevant professional certification and five years' experience working with business software applications, or equivalent combination of education and experience including time spent in preparatory positions.

Responsibilities

• Identify opportunities for improving services and products to SESLOC members and employees using technology and process improvements.
• Act as a liaison between IT and other departments to translate business needs and objectives into technology solutions.
• Leverage the functionality of applications, manage vendor relationships and maintain effective working relationship with the end user of the applications.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder communication

Data analysis

Education

Two-year degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

JIRA

Job description

At SESLOC, it is the people that make the place. Rooted in academics, and locally headquartered for over 80 years, we are the credit union with the funny name. But to us, financial dreams and goals are serious business.

We are seeking an experienced service focused, tech-savvy, Business Analyst.

Job Summary

Identify opportunities for improving services and products to SESLOC members and employees using technology and process improvements. Act as a liaison between IT and other departments to translate business needs and objectives into technology solutions. Leverage the functionality of applications, manage vendor relationships and maintain effective working relationship with the end user of the applications.

Key Qualifications

A two-year college degree or completion of specialized course of study at business or trade school or a relevant professional certification and five years' experience working with business software applications, or equivalent combination of education and experience including time spent in preparatory positions. Previous credit union or financial institution experience preferred.

Strong with multiple change approaches from Agile, Lean, TDD, Waterfall, etc. and understand the proper use and application of each approach required. Demonstrated capability of supporting and delivering the full system development life cycle and its various phases (including user story creation, test planning, test execution, production implementation and break-fix production issue resolution) required. Demonstrated skills with SQL and/or various relational database concepts and languages required, including multiple methods for analyzing, reporting and validating data at the source (i.e. SQL queries) required. Proven ability to manage solutions delivered in multiple programming languages and technical environments required. Demonstrated understanding of software engineering vocabulary and data architecture; including experience working with Azure DevOps, JIRA or other Agile development team tools required.

EOE

All job offers extended to final candidates at SESLOC Credit union are conditional pending the successful completion and acceptable results of background checks and signing an Arbitration Agreement as a condition of employment. Background checks include a bond check, a credit check, a criminal history check, reference checks. Signing an Arbitration Agreement is a condition of employment.

Salary: $35.14 - $41.35 per hour