Senior Business Systems Analyst - Technology Projects; Hybrid

Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Senior Business Systems Analyst for their Vancouver, Washington location. In this role, you will perform systems analysis, interfacing with users to support functional requirements development, analysis of tools and techniques to support the development of systems, troubleshooting, analysis, performance monitoring and improvement of systems used by the Operations functions.

This position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If you this position aligns with your professional experience, we want to hear from you!

• Supporting Requirements Development:
• Conduct interviews and facilitate workshops to elicit application requirements.
• Research, analyze, model and organize information for developing requirements.
• Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to distinguish between solution ideas and application needs.
• Facilitate requirements validation sessions, identify gaps and present findings.
• Resolve requirement conflicts between stakeholders.
• Research, document, and validate current and future state processes and designs (functional and technical)
• Help define approach, alternatives, and decision framework for alternative solutions analyses.
• Help define and execute business analysis approaches.
• Assess and document descriptions of complex technical systems
• Solution Development and Proposal:
• Facilitate design sessions, key decisions, team meetings, sponsor meetings, and stakeholder engagement sessions
• Facilitate/assist in technical process improvement initiatives.
• Research and develop methods to automate repetitive manual data manipulations.
• Assist in the development of Business Cases/Justifications for the identified improvement opportunities and present the proposed solutions in both verbal and written formats to key stakeholders and sponsors.
• Solution Build:
• Prepare functional and technical documentation for hand-off to IT work groups.
• Work closely with IT development teams to encourage a smooth build.
• Create queries and reports for extracting, manipulating, and reporting business architecture-related information.
• Proactively communicate key updates and documents to team members, sponsors, and stakeholders
• Support project manager in the maintenance of project information including scope, status, schedule, budget, forecast, risks and issues, resources
• Implementation and Change Management:
• Support development and implementation of change management plans that reduce employee resistance and empower management as change sponsors.
• Facilitate various system verification activities such as systems and user testing.
• Solution Maintenance:
• Provide first line technical support to business users of the developed solutions.
• Complete and improve user manuals, onboarding and training documentation.
• Promote the adherence to the Operational Technology Systems Life Cycle (OT SLC) processes:

• A degree in Information Technology, Technical Management, Information Management, Engineering, Business Systems, Computer Science or a directly related technical discipline is preferred.
• 10 years of experience is required with an applicable Associate’s degree.
• 8 years of experience is required with an applicable Bachelor’s degree.
• 12 years of experience is required without a degree.
• Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of business systems analysis and progressively more technical in nature.
• Advanced knowledge of Visio and/or other flowchart tools.
• Expert proficiency…