Business Analyst - Senior

Creative Solutions Services, LLC; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 79,000 - 92,000; Part time

Job summary

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Senior Business Analyst to join a gas and electric company in Columbus, OH. This is a 9-month contract to start with the potential for extensions.

Pay: $57.00 - $67.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with business modeling concepts and business application development.
• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or CBAP strongly preferred.
• Experience with all phases of SDLC with Waterfall, Agile and/or hybrid methodologies.
• Knowledge of project management practices, process interviewing and mapping, and project scope documentation techniques.
• Ability to lead, guide, and coach less experienced business analysts.
• Ability to use modeling techniques and build business cases.
• Strong teaming, collaboration, negotiation, communication, organizational and conflict resolution skills.
• Experience working closely with service providers.

Responsibilities

• Identify, define and document business requirements and functional specifications for IT projects and initiatives with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with service providers and partners to ensure alignment of expectations, deliverables and timelines.
• Review progress on service incidents and requests and analyze and report outcomes.
• Prepare materials and facilitate regular performance review meetings for IT and business leaders.
• Independently perform work assignments with limited supervision.
• Lead workshops to elicit requirements and design solutions.
• Oversee end-to-end traceability of requirements and manage changes.
• Assist testing teams and craft test scripts; support deployment and change activities.
• Coach other Business Analysts and share best practices.

Skills

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Communication

Leadership

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

CCBA or CBAP certification preferred

Tools

qTest

Client ALM

JIRA

Job description

Primary Talent Partners has a new contract opening for a Business Analyst - Senior to join a gas and electric company in Columbus, OH. This is a 9-month contract to start with the potential for extensions.

Pay:

$57.00 - $67.00/hr; W2 contract, no PTO, no Benefits. ACA-compliant supplemental package available for enrollment. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must be able to sit on Primary Talent Partners W2 without sponsorship.

Description:

• This role reports to the Manager of Applications and is responsible for identifying, defining and documenting business requirements and functional specifications for various IT projects and initiatives by collaborating with service providers, business partners, and stakeholders to ensure alignment of expectations, deliverables, and timelines.
• Working with Service Partners the IT Analyst will become knowledgeable of the assigned applications, collaborating with Service Partners to ensure resolution of operational service-based issues, reviewing analyzing and reporting progress on service incidents and requests.
• Preparing materials and facilitating regular performance review meetings.
• Preparing performance and status information for IT and business leaders as requested.
• Individuals at this level are considered competent to independently perform work assignments.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage own schedule of work and work with stakeholders or subject matter experts, with little supervision
• Demand Assessment – assist Business Relationship Managers to review and provide input into the business strategy and formulate business cases inputting analysis and views on high level business goals and outcomes
• Business Planning – begin eliciting business requirements and modeling processes (as-is/to-be, using Business Processing and/or Value Stream Mapping), recording in standard documentation, and socializing the project with other IT teams i.e. Architecture, Applications, Infrastructure, and Services
• Definition and Design – facilitate workshops to evolve scope, gather detailed requirements, develop use cases and begin visualizing the end result, using standard tools and techniques
• Requirements Elicitation – leads, designs and facilitates business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes
• Requirements Management – Oversees end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates
• Solution Assessment & Validation – Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements. Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions. Develops cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation
• Delivery and Deployment – consulting role, providing clarification services regarding the project Vision, Scope and Requirements, plus assessing and managing Change Requests through the standard process. Assist testing teams craft suitable test scripts.
• Coach and provide daily guidance, leadership and direction to other Business Analysts or other members of the team
• Use templates, tools and (internal) processes consistently, helping evolve all as required, coach other Business Analysts on use when needed.
• Works with vendors to review and discuss products, and writes or participates in the writing of RFI’s and RFP’s. Reviews proposed designs and solutions for usability and to assure requirements are satisfied.
• Becomes domain and product expert by way of researching, testing, and familiarizing self with defined domains and new products and/or systems. Prepares and implements detailed, organized, and user-friendly written procedures for product and/or system end users. May develop and conduct end-user training programs utilizing a variety of training vehicles
• Observes various business processes and identifies and recommends opportunities for improvement. Supports procurement of new products or systems by conducting extensive product research and preparing detailed written reports to management
• Other duties assigned by management.

Required Qualifications for Position:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with business modeling concepts and business application development. Demonstrated strong business analyst skills and practicing Business Analyst on 2-3 medium/large projects
• Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Certified Business Analyst professional (CBAP) strongly preferred
• Experience with all phases of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with one or more of the methodologies: Waterfall, agile and/or hybrid methodologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of project management practices, process interviewing and mapping, and project scope documentation techniques
• Evidence of ability to lead, guide, and coach less experienced business analysts
• Ability to use appropriate modeling techniques and build business cases
• Strong teaming skills, collaboration, negotiation, communication, organizational, people management and conflict resolution skills
• Experience working closely with service providers
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Preferred Qualifications for Position:

• Experience with hybrid agile/iterative development methodologies
• Knowledge/experience using testing tool like qTest, Client ALM and agile development tools like JIRA

Primary Talent Partners is an Equal Opportunity / Afffirmed Action employer committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, gender identity, or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at [e-mail]