The Sr Business Systems Analyst is a foundational member of our team and a facilitator that works closely with internal and external stakeholders, product owners, project managers and software development teams. This individual must possess a passion for leading and delivering business value through customer experiences, systems analysis and software development.
The successful team member must possess a technical background and a strong desire to understand current and future business needs at a detailed level. As a Sr Business Systems Analyst you will use industry best practices to produce high-quality full stack solutions in a collaborative, agile, results driven environment across a diverse set of business areas: client management, channel technologies, results processing, business services and customer service applications. The successful Sr BA will have significant experience implementing batch processing and backend data driven systems and solutions.
This Sr BA is an integral team member of our Agile software development team responsible to lead both definition of software requirements and ensuring those requirements are accurately developed. The BA acts as the bridge between project stakeholders and software teams driving both the business requirements and functional specifications. The Sr BA ensures that requirements are written unambiguously, clearly and concisely such that they are understandable, implementable and testable by a software team. This individual accomplishes these tasks through defining a product backlog in partnership with the product owner and project manager, leading story mapping exercises, and creating user stories.
The Business Systems Analyst will:
Work with the Product Owner and system users to represent the customer to the team and answer questions Work collaboratively with the Software Project Manager to build team backlogs and implementation schedules. Work with the Software and Quality Engineers to design and build viable and complete solutions. Demonstrate and have accountability for requirements management via a product backlog Communicate using a variety of methods such as text, diagrams, prototypes, story mapping, user stories and use cases Facilitate requirement elicitation sessions including product backlog grooming Prioritize the requirements and backlog according to business value in partnership with a product owner and project manager Negotiate and resolve requirement conflicts Provide estimates for requirements and analysis activities as required Perform or assist with user acceptance testing Improve project processes or recommend improvements as appropriate Collaborate with other roles as a core member of a software team Performs other duties as assigned
Qualifications:
Required Education & Experience:
Bachelor's degree in a Business, Information Systems, Computer Science discipline or equivalent technical work experience 7 years Business Analysis experience in an Agile software development environment 3 years experience with managing requirements in an agile environment 3 years experience with .Net Software Development of full-stack projects 3 years experience with SQL 2 years experience with User Experience Design 2 years experience with tech writing Proven Agile experience. Team focused and willingness to help the team in any way possible. Proven ability to quickly learn new business domains and technical applications Strong technical, analytic, and communication skills Proven ability to navigate several projects with different solution teams at once Motivated, self-directed and able to prioritize
Desired Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
Experience with AI tools Experience with results processing and client data feeds Experience with .Net/Angular development projects Experience with accessibility requirements Experience in computer-based testing, certification, and licensing industry