Senior Business Systems Analyst

Job Description

Position: Senior Business Systems Analyst (Cary, North Carolina)

Duties: Act as primary liaison between business partners, application development, and testing support teams. Manage user expectations and requirements scope. Provide technical guidance on the business implications of application development projects and conduct business and strategy analysis, planning, and monitoring. Analyze complex company systems, define requirements, and create plans to address changes through technology. Gather, analyze, document, and manage business and functional requirements for project initiatives and participate in change management activities. Monitor and track open items and work stream tasks to resolution. Provide estimates for business systems analysts work efforts on new projects and ongoing forecasting. Facilitate functional requirements walkthroughs and respond to test team ambiguity review questions. Lead sophisticated functional documentation design, including use cases, functional specifications, reports and screen prototypes. Assist with the creation of required testing artifacts and coordinate testing with the Quality Assurance (QA) Team. Work with project managers, architects, developers, test team, business users, business analysts, and vendors. Contribute to user guides, reference manuals, training materials, and code release artifacts. Participate in fit/gap analysis of functional requirements and work with project managers to ensure compliance to System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Requirements: Bachelor's in computer science or computer engineering (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience gathering and documenting business and functional requirement specifications using industry standard tools, including Visio, Microsoft Word, Blueprint, and IBM Rational Requirements Composer. Specific skills/other requirements: coordinating requirements gathering and documentation across business, application development, and testing support teams, using industry knowledge of business system analyst processes (5 years); collecting and documenting end user requirements with requirements elicitation techniques, including workshops, reviews, interviews, process and document analysis (5 years); applying Microsoft Project or Jira to ensure analysis alignment with project efforts, including System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies, change management, time and cost estimation and scope management and prioritization (5 years); performing technical data analysis using Microsoft SQL querying tools (2 years); using requirements management and collaboration tools to manage requirement changes and approvals and maintain requirement repositories and traceability (2 years); and leading a team of business systems analysts (2 years).

Submit resume to Jon Hesselink [email protected] Req # 112531.

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Requisition #: 112531