IT Business Analyst

IT Associates; Lombard (IL); Remote; USD 74,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Retirement plan

Job summary

IT Associates is seeking an IT Business Analyst to work with stakeholders across business and technical teams to discover, document, and lead projects through lifecycle stages. The role defines current-state processes, data flows, and system interactions to enable future enhancements.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years of BA experience, strong documentation skills, and familiarity with AI, data mapping, and migration projects.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a Business Analyst role.
• BA / BS in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, business or related field.
• AI experience and data mapping/migration experience preferred.
• Experience as an Analyst for large complex projects.
• Experience in the Ancillary or Insurance industry is a plus.
• Strong written and verbal communication and collaboration with business and tech teams.

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyze and document clear, comprehensive business requirements.
• Define and document current state of applications and their integrations.
• Translate technical specs into robust business documentation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, developers, and QA to validate requirements.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of system processes and requirements.
• Support impact analysis for application changes across systems.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Data mapping

Data migration

Process modeling

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS / Mathematics

Tools

Visio

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Job description

Remote - Must be located in Chicagoland area

Our client is looking to add an IT Business Analyst that will be working with stakeholders across business and technical teams to discover and document requirements and successfully participate and lead projects through their respective life cycles. The Business Analyst will also be responsible for defining and documenting the current state of applications, including system functionality, data flows, and business processes to provide a clear baseline for future enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, analyze and document clear, comprehensive business requirements to support project and general enhancement requests
• Define and document current state of applications and their integrated systems, including process flows, system interactions, and data dependencies
• Translate technical specifications into robust business documentation, ensuring business logic, rules and dependencies are well understood and traceable
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, developers, and QA teams to validate requirements and ensure alignment between business needs and technical solutions
• Maintain up-to-date documentation of system processes, integrations, and requirements to support knowledge transfer and future-state planning
• Support impact analysis for application changes by assessing dependencies across applications, data, and processes
• Partner with business and technical teams to clarify requirements, resolve gaps and ensure accuracy of delivered solutions
• Go beyond just reading and understanding information, to making sense of it, and finding patterns for improvement.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of prior experience in a Business Analyst role.
• BA / BS in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, business or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Prefer someone who has AI experience, also has experience with data mapping and migration projects.
• Must have experience as an Analyst for large complex projects.
• Experience working within the Ancillary or Insurance industry is a plus.
• Interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work independently or as part of a team with both the Business and technology staff.
• Skilled at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system enhancement initiatives in agile software development environments.
• Experience writing clear acceptance criteria to a testable level.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Microsoft Office experience: Word for documentation, Excel for data handling, Visio for process explanation, PowerPoint for presentation and Outlook for email.

The anticipated hourly rate range for this position is ($$54-$57/hr). Actual hourly rate will be based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, knowledge, skills and other factors permitted by law. A range of medical, dental, retirement and/or other benefits are available after a waiting period.