Senior Technical Business Analyst

Job Description

• Identifies and documents emerging business requirements; Questions business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
• Capture business requirements, functional and nonfunctional requirements. Create and maintain technical documentation, including specifications, user guides and reports
• Prioritize competing business demands, elicit high-level business requirements, and assess the risks of various solution options to different options.
• Communicate between business units, technology teams, and support teams, aligning the needs of business units with the capabilities delivered by information technology and serves as a translator between those groups.
• Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
• Facilitate communication between technical teams and non-technical business stakeholders to ensure alignment and clarity.
• Present ideas in a concise, focused manner. Surface potential impacts of the solution on all stakeholders. Articulates the role of technology in terms easily understood by business constituencies.
• Mentor and coach junior team members

Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Life Sciences, Communications or related field.
• Self-starter, proactive, strong-business acumen, excellent follow-through.
• Primary Business Analyst on several medium to large complexity projects. (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to define business requirements and measure / communicate proposed project benefits (preferred)
• Demonstrated knowledge of both traditional Waterfall and Agile/Lean methodologies.
• Experience in converting business requirements and functional requirements to use cases, epics, and user stories with acceptance criteria. (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes
• Excellent written and verbal communications; Solid written and oral presentation skills
• Ability to keep control of the room in a way that is not off-putting; Natural ability to redirect and refocus conversations with people at different levels when needed
• Ensures and advises business stakeholders by actively initiating and influencing what is needed versus how their needs will be achieved; Ability to drive change
• Analytic Ability: ability to work with data to identify patterns; Uses judgment to form conclusion that may challenge conventional wisdom, and focuses on the crux of issues to identify high leverage intervention points and strategies
• Exhibits high levels of engagement with stakeholders at all levels and understanding high depth of business context
• Proficient with MS Office applications (e.g. Visio, Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.)