Business Analyst

Business Analyst 3

The Business Analyst serves as a Senior Level Analyst responsible for leading the Business Analysis activities for the Modernization and full re-write of  Applications. The BA3 acts as a bridge between business/program teams and software development teams ensuring alignment, clarity and traceability from intake of requirements through delivery.

• Lead the elicitation, documentation and validation of business, functional and non-functional requirements.
• Facilitate interviews and working sessions with program teams, SMEs and technical staff.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria and process flows.
• Document current state workflows, system dependencies and processes.
• Design future state workflows aligned with modernization goals  architectural changes if any.
• Create process maps, decision trees and workflow diagrams using Visio and other modeling tools.
• Support data migration planning by documenting data models, business rules and transformation logic.
• Experience developing quality-of-service (non-functional) requirements - are requirements that do not perform a specific function for the business requirement but are needed to support the functionality. For example: performance, scalability, quality of service (QoS), security and usability.
• Experience developing report specifications - define the purpose of a report, its justification, attributes and columns, owners and runtime parameters.
• Strong organization and writing skills. Experienced developing graphic representations of complex business processes.
• Provide requisite support for quality assurance testing, UAT coordination, defect triage and validation of fixes.
• Review system behavior aligns with documented requirements and program expectations.
• Communicate project status, risks and decisions to PM and other leadership.

• Requires an understanding of application architecture, re-architecting, or rebuilding strategies Viz., Azure Functions, API's Sql Server,.NET Core.
• Legacy systems analysis and integration points to determine modernization path.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, microservices and modern Dev Ops practices.
• Tool proficiency: experience with project & portfolio management tools like Clarity PPM, Azure Dev Ops, SharePoint and other off-the-shelf operational systems.

• Ideally, 7 to 8 years of relevant experience required. Past projects that involved writing requirements for legacy system migration, re-factoring or modernization would be highly preferred.
• Experience leading teams cross development, operations, security and business needs.

• Education:
  
  4 year college degree in IT, computer science, engineering or business with a focus on technology.
• Certifications:
  
  at least one certification from IIBA as a business analyst. Other Agile/Scrum certifications can strengthen credibility.

The position is hybrid and the hire should be able to come to DCY office in Columbus as needed.