Senior Business Analyst Raleigh, NC

Position: Hybrid Role || Senior Business Analyst || Raleigh, NC
Job Title:
Business Analyst

Location:
Raleigh, NC

Type: 12-month contract

DESCRIPTION OF WORK:
The client is seeking a short-team Senior Business Analyst / Technical Writer to support the business process analysis and requirement gathering towards procurement and implementation of the Data Modernization Initiative project.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conducts stakeholder analysis

• Conducts market research and analysis

• Identifying and documenting current and future state process workflows

• Creating User stories and acceptance criteria

• Develops Contextual diagrams, functional decomposition, and process workflows

• Develops the following documents business process models, use cases, wireframes, entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, system context diagrams

• Gathers, develops, documents and validates business, functional and technical requirements

• Perform functional and integrated testing

• Prepare and maintain project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation

• Works with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements

• Create and maintain Requirement Traceability matrix

• Provide business analysis deliverables as input to the procurement documents and assist in writing the procurement documentation as required

• UAT support, including developing test scenarios and cases

• Supporting required system go-live activities

• Build Business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements

• Document gap analysis

• Authors and prepares meeting minutes to be distributed to a variety of audiences

• Authors user stories, test scripts, and other Agile deliverables

• Follows PMO PM and BA methodology documentation

• Attends all PMO meetings

• Employee will perform other related work as required

• Travels in the local Raleigh area to attend meetings

KNOWLEDGE,

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

/ COMPETENCIES:

• Demonstrated experience participating in the documentation of functional requirements and technical specifications for existing and new applications

• Strong writing and communication skills and can build relationships with both their team members and clients

• Results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic and must be able to demonstrate excellent negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills

• Ability to work with customers as a member of cross-divisional work groups and maintain positive and productive relationships with customers, peers, and superiors

• Ability to act independently with sound business judgment and thrive in environment with diverse communication styles

• Ability to prepare and present oral and written documents clearly and concisely

• Exhibit comprehensive knowledge of the work requirements demonstrated by an in-depth understanding and use of advanced principles, theories and practices associated with Business Analysis and PMI PMBOK® Guide and Standards

• Experience working with customers to advise on strategies, alternatives and the implications of specific application customizations and interface designs

• Possess a high-level understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design

• Ability to manage complex assignments with multiple work streams and aggressive (and sometimes competing) timelines

• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) concepts and process

• Knowledge of and experience with IT Service Management best practices and principles

• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Visio) and Microsoft Project

• Extensive understanding of SharePoint end user experience, sites, libraries, lists and groups

• Healthcare data reporting systems experience is required