The Business Analyst will lead business and system analysis of technical, often complex, and highly visible agency projects. This role works closely with Project Managers and technical leads, as well as clients, to drive the requirements elicitation process and execution of complex software development projects within set project targets and deadlines.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current best practices and using agile methodology to create and maintain business requirements documentation.
• Create clear, organized user stories. Document detailed system specifications.
• Analyze and document current state vs future state using UML methodologies.
• Work with business users to research, understand, and document business processes and requirements using common tools such as JIRA, VISIO, SharePoint, MS Office Suite.
• Work with PMs and technical teams to communicate business needs, understand solution capabilities and constraints, and assist in documenting/translating solution architect visions to business partners.
• Independently lead and document requirements-gathering sessions.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designer to develop UI specifications.
• Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed, including training end users.
Qualifications:
• A Bachelors degree is required preferably in a related field.
• 3-5 years of proven experience leading and documenting requirements-gathering sessions and developing user stories.
• Must be highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and great attention to detail
• Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies
• Demonstrated ability to prepare User Stories, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs, Use Cases and Data Mapping documents
• Experience with Jira is preferred. Experience with smartsheet is a plus.
• Must be a quick and enthusiastic learner
• Applies a proven customer-first approach when working with others.
Equal Opportunity Employer
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We tolerate no discrimination because of differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to any of the above or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.