Business Analyst 16463782

Cordia Resources by Cherry Bekaert has partnered with an established multi-million dollar technology company that is searching for a Business Analyst for a contract role!

The Sr. BA will work with a number of different stakeholders and scrum teams to interpret and translate our customer’s business needs into technical requirements.

Day-To-Day Responsibilities include:

•             Understanding customer requirements through interviews, document analysis, business process mapping, business analysis, task and workflow analysis, online research, and data analysis.

•             Create user stories, use case diagrams, acceptance tests, etc. to establish high-level technical functions and requirements and ensure alignment with product strategy and roadmap

•             Coordinate, schedule, facilitate, and participate in customer enhancement-focused collaboration sessions, scrum meetings and sprint planning meetings

•             Organize review of requirements with users, developers, product management and architecture teams.

•             Unpack high-level information into details, and documents functional requirements.

•             Assist software development teams in the architecture of and use of proprietary and/or 3rd-party systems, providing process flow diagrams, business process documentation, and technical documentation.

•             Analyze existing processes to identify gaps and areas of improvement. Work with other departments to create, develop, and implement process improvements with an enterprise-wide focus.

•             Assist with product documentation.

•             Assist Product Owners with training to system users as new system enhancements are released.

•             Mentor Business Analysts to ensure appropriate business analyst standards and practices are met when appropriate.

•             Assist software development teams in the quality assurance of systems by providing test plans with test cases and supporting the business during testing efforts with user acceptance testing.

Candidate background:

•             Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.  In lieu of degree, 5+ years of relevant experience as a Business Analyst can be substituted.

•             5 years of experience as a Business Analyst with advanced knowledge of business analysis, data standards, and project delivery practices.

•             Experience in various software development lifecycle management methodologies (Agile Scrum, Kanban) using tools like Microsoft Azure DevOps or Jira for business requirements documentation.

•             Experience with a diagramming tool such as Visio

•             Experience working with financial products and systems preferred.

•             Experience in SQL scripting to perform data analysis and query data.

•             Ability to understand data models.
o             Ability to work independently

•             Strong verbal and written communication skills

•             Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities