IT Business Analyst

Position: IT Business Analyst I
Location: Columbia

IT Business Analyst I page is loaded## IT Business Analyst Ilocations:
Columbia, South Carolina, USA:
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA:
Portland, Maine, USA:
Atlanta, Georgia, USAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
834577

Our Fortune 500 company is driving a digital transformation and looking for forward-thinking innovators to disrupt how our industry thinks about and uses technology. As one of the world's leading employee benefits providers, we help millions of people gain affordable access to benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures.

We are seeking individuals to join our team of talented IT professionals who share never-ending passion and an unwavering focus on our customer experience. Team members comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced, and delivery-focused environment thrive in our environment where we value an entrepreneurial spirit and those who challenge the status-quo.

Unum is changing, and we’re excited about what’s next. Join us.## General

Summary:

Business Analyst I - IT are responsible for working with the agile team and the Product Owner to define and document acceptance criteria. They ensure the solutions delivered are of high quality by collaborating with their agile team members and by leveraging/using appropriate elicitation/documentation practices for the team. They are active team members who participate in the estimation of work required to deliver software features.
** Job Specifications:
*** Bachelors Degree preferred, or equivalent experience
* Has 2+ years experience working as part of an agile team
* Passionate about the business direction, priorities, results, and customer experience.
* Has demonstrated good analytical abilities
* Takes a logical, analytical approach to problem solving and pays close attention to detail
* Knowledge of Agile Development Methodologies
* Self motivated and results oriented
* Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills.
* Strong written communication skills to document and communication requirements
* Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization.
* Takes an innovative approach to problem solving
* IIBA certifications are a plus
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* Duties and Responsibilities:

*** Maintain holistic understanding of IT Delivery roadmap and track any changes to the roadmap are aligned in the backlog tooling enabling teams to leverage automated roadmaps and status report, metrics functionality
* Ensures that Product or adoption KPIs identified can feasibly be measured and tracked within development and delivery activities, ensuring key data points are identified and included from the outset within the scope of the agile teamwork
* Maintains holistic understanding of relevant client personas and uses these personas to refine work items to develop shared understand across the Agile Team of the client needs
* Ensure integrity of work items as they are broken down and refined throughout hierarchy of work items in the product backlog. Identify where intent may be lost or overlooked during the work breakdown and refinement processes. Ie. Descoping or need for supplementary requirement gathering
* Collaborates with the Product owner and relevant subject matter experts to define concise and effective user stories with precise and accurate acceptance criteria for a user story on a just‐in‐time/just‐enough basis that will be used by the team and product owner to ensure that stakeholder and product owner intent is effectively captured and developed
* Ensure that key information needed to support PO prioritization is current, accurate and available in a usable format to drive high quality decisions.
* Ensure functional and non-functional requirement’s, with appropriate documentation are represented effectively in the product backlog
* Ensure that product backlog work items e.g. user stories are meeting the definition of ready/done in line with enterprise targets on backlog readiness, often called planning horizons or planning intake funnel
* Ensure backlog work item decomposition is meeting enterprise standards with…