Business Analyst IV; Remote - WashU IT

Scheduled Hours

40

Through strong knowledge of the organization’s technology infrastructure and specific software applications, helps the business address changes through technology. Performs all tasks to achieve an understanding of business change needs, assessing the impact of those changes, capturing, analyzing and documenting requirements and then supporting the communication and delivery of those requirements with relevant parties.

This position specifically works on projects with very large scope and impact for the WashU Medicine.

• Prepares business cases working with university partners.
• Collaborates with Project Manager to plan approach to requirements elicitation and methods for requirements management and communication.
• Ensures business opportunities and objectives are clearly articulated.
• Performs current state analysis and/or root cause analysis as required.
• Plans modeling techniques to be used in requirements analysis (scope, process, rule, data, interface models, etc.).
• Works with Project Manager to plans validation of requirements in managing project scope, user acceptance, installation and deployment; helps determine metrics.
• Performs feasibility analysis as required for projects.
• Co‑ordinates planning activities to meet objectives and timelines of overall program or project. Works with Project Manager to forecast required time and resources.
• Implements strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data requirements.
• Performs requirements elicitation using techniques per plan.
• Documents requirements, establishes scope and objectives and determines strategy for evaluating requirements implementation in systems to achieve business goals.
• Organizes requirements by release and other needed categories and sets up traceability matrix; articulates requirements relationships and dependencies.
• Translates and simplifies requirements for appropriate use; performs gap analysis and requirements analysis working with technical team.
• Prioritizes requirements working with university partners and creates conceptual prototypes and mock‑ups.
• Uses business process modeling, traceability and quality management techniques per methodology.
• Performs requirements management and communication; applies best practices for effective communication and problem‑solving.
• Collaborates with project management to obtain requirements approvals per project plan; facilitates go/no go decisions.
• Validates requirements throughout process per plan.
• Uses requirements to drive the design or review of test cases; processes change requests.
• Provides consulting to all stakeholders regarding requirements management working with Project Management.
• Takes on assignments for very large projects and others as assigned.
• Monitors the technical team solution to ensure requirements fulfillment and solution evaluation.
• Leads and coordinates activities associated with requirements management vehicles.
• Provides coaching to junior business systems analyst staff to successfully accomplish objectives.
• Provides leadership to other Business Analysts assigned to projects.
• Assists department manager in the business systems analyst selection process and on‑boarding new resources.
• Participates in recommending and leading implementation of continuous improvement plans for business analysis.
• Develops requirements adoption metrics and other methods of evaluating the long‑term performance of the solution.
• Reviews and monitors the effectiveness of business analysis via test results.
• Provides status reports.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Normal office environment.
• Work is normally performed in offices located across campus.
• Many activities require trips to various University offices and off‑site locations.

• Typically sitting at a desk or table.

• Office equipment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by the personnel so classified. Management reserves the…