Senior IT Business Analyst; Hybrid - LOCAL , DALLAS TX

Senior IT Business Analyst (HYBRID - LOCAL CANDIATES ONLY, DALLAS TX)

TITLE: Senior IT Business Analyst (LOCAL CANDIATES ONLY)

POSITION TYPE: Full Time – W2 Employee

LOCATION: Hybrid (DALLAS, TX)

As a Senior IT Business Analyst you will provide strategic business analysis services to business partners. Work closely with the business units to gain in-depth understanding of customer's business strategy, processes, services, roadmap and context in which the business operates. Review assigned business processes from end-to-end to identify and address operational, financial and technological risks.

• Interfaces and collaborates with other IT staff in the design of new programs, processes, projects and software. Assist other participants with analysis, validation, application testing, defect tracking, and training as needed. Interfaces with software project team members to assist in all aspects of business requirements and testing activities. Participates in the coordination and monitoring of software development activities. Assist with establishing test procedures and scripts.
• Researches and prepares statistical reports using data from systems and surveys; consolidate information into cohesive and understandable deliverables for management decision-making.
• Ensures alignment between user requirements, funding requirements, technical requirements, and system capabilities.
• Leads project team of Business Analysts, Systems Programmers, and end-users in the definition of systems requirements, often for projects or programs using multiple technical disciplines.
• Leads business requirements analysis, validation and verification, ensuring that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Provides project level analysis – producing required project analysis documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, sequence diagrams, future state proposals,
  UAT plan).
• Conducts change impact analysis to assess the potential implications of changes and document business rules, functions, and requirements.
• Identify, create and facilitate process design changes by conducting business and systems process analysis and design at a complex level; focusing on quality improvement and data management; ensuring data is reliable and valid; developing process improvements or re‑engineering and recommending elimination; integrating new systems and processes with existing ones; and partnering with internal and external customers to ensure systems provided meet the long‑term business strategies.
• Elicits requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or requirements workshops.
• Demonstrates up-to-date expertise in Information Systems and applies this to the development, execution and improvement of action plans by providing advice and guidance to others in the application of information and best practices.
• Facilitates requirements prioritization based on business value.
• Performs other duties as assigned

• Education, Experience and Training:
  Education and experience equivalent to a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Information Systems or in a job related field of study. Master’s degree preferred.
• Five (5) years of job related experience. Experience in delivering business analysis and/or experience in one or more of the following areas: business transformation and optimization, business relationship management and business process management preferred. Business Analysis,
  ITIL
  , and/or Project Management certifications preferred.
• Knowledge of business analysis, delivering software implementations and/or software development projects working in all phases of the SDLC utilizing waterfall and/or agile methodologies; knowledge of customer management.
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging technologies and ability to practically apply them to new business designs and business models to achieve targeted business outcomes.
• Knowledge in…