Strategic Business Analyst: Discovery to Design

Valiant Technologies LLC; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a senior Business Analyst to lead discovery, current and future state analyses, and functional design across business users, provider representatives, and technical teams. You will elicit requirements, model processes, and define data definitions, controls, and reports to drive streamlined applications.

The role requires documenting as-is and to-be workflows, identifying gaps and risks, and producing detailed artifacts such as user stories, use cases, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading discovery and requirements elicitation.
• Experience documenting current and future state processes.
• Strong communication to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to evaluate functional design alternatives and document tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery, current state assessment, requirements elicitation, workflow redesign, and functional solution design activities involving business users, provider representatives, technical teams, and project leadership.
• Analyze and, when necessary, reverse engineer existing application functionality, workflows, business rules, user roles, data flows, integrations, reports, controls, exceptions, workarounds, and system dependencies.
• Identify functional gaps, conflicting requirements, redundant processes, usability issues, manual workarounds, regulatory constraints, and opportunities to simplify or improve application behavior.
• Design future state application workflows and functional behavior, including user roles and permissions, task routing, approvals, reassignment, validations, notifications, escalations, exception handling, auditability, reporting, and operational controls.
• Develop detailed business and functional analysis artifacts such as current state and future state process models, use cases, user stories, functional specifications, business rule catalogs, role and permission matrices, screen and field requirements, data definitions, interface requirements, reporting requirements, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Lead functional design reviews and walkthroughs, resolve requirements and design gaps, obtain stakeholder decisions and approvals, and maintain traceability from business need through design, development, testing, and implementation.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Workflow redesign

Functional analysis

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory awareness

Data mapping

Tools

UML

Visio

Jira

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC is seeking a senior Business Analyst to lead discovery, current and future state analyses, and functional design across business users, provider representatives, and technical teams. You will elicit requirements, model processes, and define data definitions, controls, and reports to drive streamlined applications.

The role requires documenting as-is and to-be workflows, identifying gaps and risks, and producing detailed artifacts such as user stories, use cases, and