Business System Analyst

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• Meeting with clients to understand business and systems requirements, documenting them, and translating them into functional and system requirement specifications that can be used by developers to build the solution and for testers to validate functionality
• Applying knowledge of systems and technology to enhance solutions and manage data quality  
• Orchestrating backlog refinement, prioritizing/updating requirements, and writing quality, detailed user stories
• Gathering and processing business information related to procedures and data to clarify business issues/requirements
• Developing alternative solutions based on business drivers and impact/cost analysis
• Supporting scope management
• Collaborating directly with development team to deliver projects on time and to the client’s satisfaction
• Ensuring quality of the developed solution: that it meets the business functional requirements and is production-ready
• Managing relationships with team and clients

‘Must Have’ Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years of business analysis experience
• Solid understanding of software development
• Ability to consolidate diverse business and systems requirements and facilitate realistic, common sense solutions
• Experience data mapping
• Ability to analyze business functions, workflows, inputs and outputs
• Technical writing skills/experience
• Understanding of Integration patterns including REST APIs and event mechanisms
• Hands-on experience working with SQL databases (i.e., performing queries, data analysis)
• Familiarity with Project Management tools such as JIRA
• UML and flow diagrams
• Proven client-facing, partnership and presentation skills
• Familiarity with and enthusiasm for Agile approaches to software development
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Curiosity and a desire to learn

‘Nice to Have’ Skills/Experience:

• Project management skills/experience
• Product development/ownership experience
• Cloud platform experience, preferably Azure