Sr. Technical Business Analyst; Hybrid

Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Sr. Technical Business Analyst for their Portland, Oregon location. This position will provide support and assistance to the Project Management Office within the Information Technology organization. This position will support technology initiatives the IT PMO manages, identifying and delivering strategic business solutions that enhance overall IT portfolio and maximize value to the agency.

This resource will participate in business process and technology initiatives to improve business performance; define portfolios of dependent services and technical needs; and develop business process models and draft the associated documentation. The Technical Business Analyst will be involved with projects that may vary in scope and size, from smaller short-term “PMO Lite” type of projects such as software upgrades, to larger capital projects and programs that may span several years and have budgets frequently more than $1 million.

This hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If this opportunity is well-aligned with your experience and goals, we would love to hear from you!

• Elicit, document, and track requirements to support the implementation of IT systems.
• Identify and plan business analysis work needed to meet project needs.
• Recommend the artifacts and level of detail for the business analysis effort.
• Recommend the business analysis approach to satisfy the analysis objective, including the specific tasks and deliverables.
• Plan the requirements gathering strategy and elicit customer requirements.
• Recommend desired resource levels to accomplish work in accordance with the project schedule and budget.
• Draft high quality, repeatable, reusable artifacts and approaches that other Analysts can use on future projects.
• Plan and conduct user/stakeholder interviews, potentially including job shadowing and “day in the life” exercises.
• Analyze the gathered information to present the business problem and the proposed solution.
• Analyze business processes and create current-state and future-state models, including gap analyses.
• Identify the product quality requirements needed to satisfy the customer needs, i.e., performance and availability.
• Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability from goals and objectives to detailed functional requirements.
• Evaluate and assess business process change impacts to inform Change Management activities.
• Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to present a complete picture of the business need and description of how the proposed solution meets that need.
• Translate customer needs into product requirements in sufficient detail for technical teams to implement.
• Document detailed descriptions and specifications of user needs, business rules, functionality, and steps required.
• Draft requirements documentation/artifacts, e.g., user stories, context diagrams, swim lane diagrams, non-functional requirements as needed to define the solution.
• Support the development of test plans and acceptance criteria, traced to business and functional requirements.
• Review and validate requirements documentation with appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
• Conduct detailed reviews of requirements and obtain approval from appropriate parties.
• Facilitate the requirements documentation throughout the entire lifecycle of the project.
• Update requirements as they evolve throughout the system implementation.
• Track scope delivery and how delivered products provide business value.
• Facilitate a shared understanding of the customer needs and…