Job Description:
Optomi, in partnership with one of our premier clients, is seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join their team! This candidate will be responsible for helping business partners implement technology solutions. This candidate will need experience working on Software Development projects and experience with tools including Jira/Confluence, Power BI, SQL is a plus!
Responsibilities:
- Collaborates with product or project teams, business partners and IT leaders, and often leads planning efforts related to their work.
- Manages ambiguity and creates accurate project effort estimates.
- Recognizes the implications of business strategy changes and effectively engages project stakeholders.
- Aligns technology solutions with business strategies comprised of moderate to complex business processes.
- Establishes a strong, positive relationship with business units and Product Managers to identify and document business requirements.
- Prioritizes business line demands conducts and participates in planning and prioritization meetings with business representatives; develops a prioritized list of project work including software modifications, report requests, and other business system-related development work to reflect the priorities of the organization.
- Acts as a facilitator within all phases of the application lifecycle except development to assist the collective effort of business units towards their objectives.
- Ensures accurate translation of business requirements into functionality.
Experience Required:
- 7+ years of Business Analysis Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Experience developing support materials, including SOPs and Help Guides
- Experience leading joint application sessions
- Experience with tracking risks and changes
- Experience in requirements gathering process for IT systems
- Experience in data migration, integration and governance
- Experience with MSSQL server, relational databases, and writing simple queries
- Experience with reporting, SSRS or Power BI
- Strong leadership skills coupled with a drive to innovate
- Ability to work well both independently and in team, establishing and maintaining cooperation, understanding, trust and credibility
- Ability to function and to adapt to new goals, practices, etc. within a dynamic work environment
- Proactively stays current in requisite skills within job scope, and incorporates knowledge and other feedback into work
- Demonstrated knowledge of at least one software development methodology.
- Demonstrated ability to communicate technical/complex information both verbally and in writing