Business Analyst - Olympia, United States - Dynanet

Description

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Experienced staff member with demonstrated ability in a wide range of business analysis tools and techniques for the elicitation, analysis, documentation, communication, and verification of business and stakeholder/user requirements for complex business systems.

Business Analyst must possess excellent communication skills and have experience in working with business
stakeholders to understand their business needs and concerns in context to their business processes. Must be proficient in serving as a liaison between business and technical stakeholders and collaborating with project teams.

The candidate must be able to understand data complexities, compare data between a source system and a target system, and problem solve when inconsistencies arise.

Requirements:


Qualifications:
This role must have a bachelor's degree, a master's degree is preferred.

Minimum of 7 years of demonstrable experience in business analysis, encompassing all tasks and techniques that are used to perform business analysis.

Must have 5 years of JIRA experience (or similar tool).
IIBA Certification preferred.
Business analysis experience in a health care environment preferred.
Business analysis experience for a federal agency preferred.
Intermediate to advanced proficiency with industry standard word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software programs.
Responsibilities:

Responsible for ensuring that the needs of the NHLBI community are met through clear and detailed requirements, user acceptance testing to validate the requirements, and training to the user community on enhancements and changes.

Actively participate in and support project planning activities.
Determine appropriate requirements elicitation and documentation techniques, determine appropriate requirements management process, and assess progress of assigned efforts.
Provide expert analysis to determine appropriate timeframes for requirements efforts.
Identify stakeholders and perform stakeholder analysis. Work with stakeholders to identify and understand their business needs and concerns in context of their business processes. Ensure that stakeholders' actual underlying needs are understood, rather than stated or superficial needs. Negotiate and build consensus among stakeholders.
Participate in requirements gathering meetings.

Work with the Product Owner, Business Owners, and user community representatives to elicit and capture both functional and non-functional requirements for a product or service under study.

Utilize appropriate requirements models, including business process flows, to effectively communicate stakeholder needs.
Engage with Product Owner (and possibly end-users and subject matter experts) to learn processes and identify pain points. Seek guidance from Technical Project Managers for concerns that may increase future business values.
Analyze stakeholder needs to define solutions that meet those needs, assessing the current state and identifying and recommending improvements. Verify and validate requirements. Create and propose to-be processes and mockups.
Understand business processes and look for opportunities for improvements and efficiencies.
Create product backlog.
Develop requirements and technical/product use cases.

Prioritize and progressively elaborate business and stakeholder/user requirements in order to enable the project team to implement solutions that will meet the business needs of the stakeholders.

Understand data complexities, compare data between a source system and a target system, problem solve when inconsistencies arise.

Manage conflicts, issues, changes in order to ensure stakeholders and the project team remain in agreement on the solution scope.

Manage and effectively communicates requirements scope and risks.
Help identify and resolve business risks and issues. Validate and verify that requirements will be met in proposed solutions. Support the Product Owner in continuously managing the relative project requirement priorities. Recommend sequencing of development activities to ensure requirement priorities and dependencies are optimized and balanced.
Create product release communications plans, and support customer training of new products. Conduct product rollout, including leading sprint demo meetings. Support rollout training, change management, and other engagements with end-users and other stakeholders.


Soft Skills:
Problem-solving
Critical thinking
Excellent verbal and written communication
Curiosity
Presentation skills
Facilitation and observational skills
Collaboration
Negotiation
Attention to detail
Organization
Team player
Adaptability
Process modeling

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