Senior Business Analyst

Iquantam; Frankfort (KY); Remote; Full time

Job summary

Iquantam is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to enhance its project management capabilities. The ideal candidate will possess strong communication and analytical skills and will drive business requirements gathering and documentation. This remote position allows for flexible working arrangements but requires occasional onsite meetings.

Benefits

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with a focus in IT or equivalent.
• Two to three years’ experience with IT needs and solutions.
• Experience with business analysis and agile processes.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Project Manager in project management and requirements gathering.
• Elicit business requirements and manage the product backlog.
• Lead development team in identifying acceptance criteria for user stories.

Skills

Communication

Critical Thinking

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in IT or equivalent

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Senior Business Analyst

Quantam Solutions provides IT solutions and consulting for various clients. We offer competitive hourly wages, health benefits, paid time off, and a 401(k) plan. We're currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst. This position is remote with one to two mandatory meetings onsite in Frankfort, KY per year. Candidates should be located within a two to three hour drive of Frankfort, KY.

LOCATION: Remote with one to two mandatory meetings onsite in Frankfort, KY per year.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Our client is committed to meet or exceed the needs and expectations of their business customers. They strive to continually improve both the delivery of their products and services and the processes which support that delivery. Our client makes decisions based on this commitment and always strives to provide value to their business units and external stakeholder community. We have an immediate need for an exceptional individual to join our client’s organization as a Business Analyst. This opportunity is based in Frankfort, KY. The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, critical thinking skills, possess leadership skills, and is committed to delivering successful and quality work products that completely address Business Unit requirements. The candidate must have the ability to envision impacts and possibilities of their work on the broader client organization and apply those thoughts to improve their analysis efforts.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES:

The IT Business Analyst (BA) will assist the Project Manager (PM) in the management of the project work by facilitating communication with the business unit/customer, project team, and other stakeholders as necessary related to requirements and proposed solutions for the project. The BA will elicit business requirements (features & user stories) for assigned project requests and manage the product backlog. For each upcoming sprint, the BA will decompose the user stories to a consumable level that is understood by the developers. The BA will lead the team in the identification of acceptance criteria for the decomposed user stories. The BA will ask business stakeholders probing questions and communicate that information to the development team to ensure they understand the requested work. The BA is expected to understand the business processes and to use that knowledge to make recommendations for business process improvements as well as improve the value to the end user and our client.

AN IDEAL CANDIDATE WILL SUPPORT OUR CLIENT’S PROJECT MANAGEMENT BY:

• Driving the adoption and integration of the BA roles and processes.
• Assess customers’ current capabilities and needs and identify potential vendor products as solutions.
• Act as a liaison between project stakeholders.
• Identify business needs and drivers of value and success.
• Work with technical teams to determine and justify a solution approach that maximizes customer value through improvements to workflow, production, efficiency and/or effectiveness.
• Provide technical and non-technical assistance to the PMO to develop project documentation.
• Work with project/business stakeholders and/or users to gather, document, vet and validate solution (system and software) requirements.
• Work with the development team on task creation and estimating.
• Work with the technical development team to ensure that requirements are effectively implemented.
• Work with project/business stakeholders and/or users to facilitate user acceptance testing.
• Work with customer contacts after solution delivery to understand ongoing needs and issues along with associated business drivers, and assist in triaging within our client to engage resources to provide the appropriate response/resolution.
• Assist the Project Manager with management of the project by “owning” the analysis and testing components of the project.
• Lead the development team through the Working phase of the project by researching and answering questions about the defined work, identified bugs and assisting in technical roadblocks - escalating as defined in the project’s technical escalation process.
• Create and maintain the testing plan for the project following an iterative development methodology.
• Employ an iterative development methodology and lead the effort in defining features, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Manage user story (requirements), use case, and artifact gathering processes and clearly communicate to the business and technical team members what is needed.
• Ask probing questions to fully understand user stories with the ability to provide feedback on possible implications of any and all requests.
• Accurately and concisely articulate issues, questions, and recommendations to business stakeholders, team members, and management.
• Work with the business unit to manage the expectations for project completion.
• Understand the “as-is” and “to-be” business processes to ensure all parties are working toward the same goal.
• Model the expected system interactions, particularly when software is being developed.
• Look for gaps in data requirements between what is in place and what is needed.
• Model the data requirements or work with the appropriate people to ensure that the data will support the new solution.
• Create mock-ups of the new user interfaces as needed.
• Support the business unit and development team by discussing business and technical impacts of and dependencies related to priority decisions.
• Work closely with stakeholders in developing user scenarios as needed.
• Work with continuous improvement in mind in order to identify and document system recommendations for current and future development.
• Work with users to update business processes and procedures guidelines.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree with a focus in IT or equivalent combination of experience/knowledge.
• Two to three years’ experience working with businesses to identify and document IT needs and facilitate solutions.
• Experience and comfort with business analysis, requirements definition, and vetting.
• Knowledge of and experience with agile processes.
• Strong analytical, design and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently/self-reliant and show initiative with minimum supervision.
• Ability to quickly learn new technology and apply appropriately to business situations.
• Strong team player who enjoys working in a fast-paced team atmosphere.
• Ability to work under pressure; meet strict deadlines.
• Ability to listen effectively and seek clarification.
• Ability to build a rapport with clients.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Must be able to effectively and comfortably communicate with all types of individuals from the customer technical expert to the customer executive management.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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