Big Data Business Analyst

The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium to large IT projects. The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation and translation to technology teams. The Business analyst serves the business working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions. As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise. The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:The following duties are essential to the successful and satisfactory performance of this job. Other duties may be assigned.

Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives and scope of new projects

Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends

Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements

Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner

Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams

Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs

Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements

Translate technical solutions and constraints to business

Develops business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit

Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities

Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities

Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests

Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project

MINIMUM EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience CBAP Certification preferred. 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Proven experience in gathering requirements, process mapping, and stakeholder management within data and data quality projects or supporting BI&A teams
• Experience with projects implementing or enhancing new applications (enterprise and mobile)
• Experience writing requirements for projects with heavy integrations, lots of APIs, understanding of middleware
• Knowledge of ETL, SQL UX/UI preferred

Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption

Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other

Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques

Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives

Strong Business Acumen

Experience in defining and maturing business capability road maps