Information Technology Business Analyst III

Overview

A Brief Overview Collaborates with stakeholders and technology counterparts to deliver solutions that provide maximum value. Utilizes a variety of elicitation techniques to understand stakeholder's needs, analyzing information and data and ensuring requirements documentation meets enterprise standards. Requirements documentation may include supporting multiple project delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile, and iterative). Strong written and verbal communication skills are necessary. Coordinates with project team members and key partners across the enterprise to deliver high quality documentation and adhere to business analysis best practices.

Deliver project deliverables that may include documentation of current state/as-is and future state/to-be; multiple types of requirements to support multiple stakeholders and multiple project delivery methodologies; and diverse types of diagrams to support architectural and data-related requirements. Provides gap analysis. Serves as a liaison between business and technology partners to drive solution delivery. Supports development of less experienced business analysts and team members.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, communicating delivery status, estimating effort associated with project deliverables, and being accountable for meeting target delivery dates. May be assigned to multiple, medium to large, semi-complex and concurrent projects. Responsible to make an established range of decisions, escalating to manager level associates when necessary.

• Delivery of high-quality project deliverables and meeting target delivery date.
• Utilizes a variety of elicitation techniques to deliver high quality project deliverables in support of project delivery.
• Responsible for planning and monitoring activities related to business analysis. Performs stakeholder analysis and selects appropriate project approach, and estimates business analysis effort with regard to project deliverables. Requests assistance and support when needed.
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with program and project managers to ensure clear understanding of program and project goals, objectives, scope, and deliverables.
• Responsible for elicitation of requirements documentation which may include supporting multiple delivery methodologies while collaborating with multiple business analysts to deliver a comprehensive package of project deliverables when delivering a semi-complex to complex project.
• Confirms and communicates stakeholder needs. Collaborates with technology partners to identify solution options. Ensures solutions are well documented and understood by all project stakeholders. Ensures traceability of multiples types of requirements to business objectives, test cases and solutions.
• Effectively communicates and documents project needs via deliverables such as RAP (Requirements Analysis Package) documents, user stories, diagrams, process flows, and data mapping documents. Ability to identify multiple types of requirements and documents these as needed.
• Ensures clear, concise, and consumable deliverables are documented and approved by all project stakeholders.
• Ensures hand‑off of documentation across multiple business analysts is understood and occurs as needed. Requests assistance and support when needed.
• Conveys an appropriate sense of urgency when risks and issues arise throughout the delivery of projects as related to project deliverables as well as potential need for prioritization and escalation.
• Coordinates and facilitates meetings with representatives from all levels of the organization, vendors and regulatory agencies as required to support planning, validation, and final deployment processes. Seeks guidance from management as needed with expectation to develop increased independence regarding decision making.
• Assists with the interpretation of requirements into feasible options, considering technical and business constraints, and communicates options to the stakeholders.
• Articulates the distinction between types requirements and delivery methodologies (waterfall, agile, and iterative).
• Demonstrated experience…