IT Business Analyst

System One - Broken Arrow, OK

Full-time

Broken Arrow, OK

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Business Analyst (BA) serves as a crucial technology resource, acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business for medium to large IT projects. The BA is responsible for eliciting, assessing, documenting, and translating stakeholder business requirements to ensure that business needs are met through effective technical solutions. This role involves close collaboration with various technical and business resources across the enterprise, making it essential for the candidate to be a committed, creative, and self-motivated technologist eager to practice and learn new skills.

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 cases 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 to 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.
• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• CBAP Certification preferred.