The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium to large IT projects. The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation and translation to technology teams. The Business analyst serves the business working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions. As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise. The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones. Key duties will include:
- Writing requirements for the RFP process for an upcoming ERP project
- Defining and documenting business requirements
- Process mapping and analysis
- Writing User Stories that will feed into development team refinement sessions
- Documenting acceptance criteria
- Being the liaison for the business in IT discovery and prioritization meetings
- Running refinement sessions
- Participate in discovery and completion of the estimation model
- Coordinate QA and UAT
- Facilitate the CAB change management process
location: Columbus, Ohio
job type: Contract
salary: $65 - 85 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities:
- The following duties are essential to the successful and satisfactory performance of this job. Other duties may be assigned.
- 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
- The initial effort will be focused on a SharePoint Modernization project and will involve the following:
- Inventory and categorize a list of applications, data, sites, subsites to evaluate where the system moves or categorize for future solutioning activity.
- Disposition all inventoried data and applications from on-prem 2016 SharePoint farms to one of the 2 options below based on system requirements and compatibility:
- SharePoint Online (Microsoft SharePoint 365)
- On-prem SharePoint Subscription Edition (SharePoint SE)
- Process documentation
- SharePoint migrations technical POC
qualifications:
MINIMUM EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
- CBAP Certification preferred.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE:
- 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects
skills:
- 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
Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.
At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com.
Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).
This posting is open for thirty (30) days.
