Business Analyst - hybrid

Revel It - Columbus, OH

Full-time - Mid Level

Columbus, OH

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Business Analyst position is a contract role based in Columbus, Ohio, requiring a hybrid work model. The role serves as a liaison between technology teams and business stakeholders on medium to large IT projects. The Business Analyst is responsible for gathering, documenting, and translating business requirements into technical specifications, ensuring that technology solutions align with business needs. The ideal candidate should possess a strong background in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies, with a focus on continuous improvement and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives and scope of new projects
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements
• Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner
• Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs
• Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements
• Translate technical solutions and constraints to business
• Develop business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit
• Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities
• Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities
• Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives
• Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• CBAP Certification preferred
• 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects
• Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition and solution evaluation
• Strong facilitation, critical / analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile / Lean methodologies
• Excellent MS-Excel, SQL and Visio skills; TFS experience preferred
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption
• Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Strong Business Acumen
• Experience in defining and maturing business capability road maps