Sr. Business Analyst

PDS Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

PDSINC, LLC is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to translate complex business needs into effective system solutions. You will act as a liaison between business units and IT, ensuring scope, requirements, and validation are clearly documented, communicated, and executable.

You will collaborate with IT to design, test, and implement enhancements that meet strategic goals and support decision making. Responsibilities include documenting functional and data requirements, performing data profiling,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business analysis.
• Experience documenting functional, system, and data requirements.
• SQL experience preferred.
• Experience leading projects and mentoring analysts.

Responsibilities

• Act as a liaison with stakeholders to analyze needs across functional areas.
• Create detailed documentation of requirements, use cases, and data flows.
• Support feasibility studies and data profiling from source systems.
• Ensure requirements are clearly documented, communicated, and validated.
• Provide support to testing groups throughout the life cycle.
• Lead projects and mentor other Business Analysts.

Skills

SQL

Stakeholder analysis

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business analysis

Business Analysis Certification (CBAP/ PMI-PBA)

Job description

Sr. Business Analyst Compensation: DOE

The Senior Business Analyst analyzes the needs of the Company’s most complex functional business areas within providing recommendations on system solutions or procedures. As the liaison between the business and IT department, the Senior Business Analyst ensures that the scope of work requested to enhance or modify existing application processes are clearly documented, communicated, and validated. The Senior Business Analyst works closely with IT experts to design, develop, document, test and validate solutions that meet business requirements and may be asked to lead projects and mentor other Business Analysts.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a liaison with stakeholders to analyze the needs of various functional business areas while enhancing software and reinforcing business standards
• Create detailed documentation of functional, system (non-functional), user and reporting requirements that may include but is not limited to: Use Cases, Logical Models, Process Flow Diagrams, Report Specifications and Data Mapping & Flow Diagrams
• Performs research and analysis for proposed projects to determine feasibility and durability
• Perform profiling and analysis of data from source systems
• Ensure that solution requirements are clearly documented, communicated, and validated
• Provide support to functional and user acceptance testing groups throughout development life cycle
• Assist with the creation of value proposition (ROI) for proposed projects
• Help the team to define and control scope for development initiatives and release schedule
• Work jointly with other IT Managers to create detailed work plans for software development and enhancement projects
• Responsible for status reporting, knowledge transfer and implementation plans as appropriate for the software solution being developed
• Build and maintain relationships with software application vendors and implementation partners
• Instruct, direct, guide and check the work of Business Analysts
• Performs other duties as assigned

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, computer engineering, information systems, finance, statistics, computer science or a related field or minimum of 5 years of direct work experience in a business analyst capacity working with business systems related to systems support, analysis, or development

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience using Structured Query Language (SQL) for data analysis.
• Business Analysis or Project Management Professional certification.

PDSINC, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer.