Business Analyst - Seattle, United States - Partnership Employment
Description
THIS ROLE WILL BE ONSITE 3 DAYS A WEEK IN SEATTLE.
LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The Business Analyst will work with the business and technology teams on solutions from inception through ongoing maintenance. This position will play a pivotal role in providing analysis support from ideation to implementation of new technology and processes, including workflow, operational process, systems and data flow design for Parametric. This position will lead business and functional requirements gathering, analysis and documentation, including workflows, wireframes, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping, data flows, assistance with user testing and where applicable, processes and procedures documentation.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
Communicate effectively - both verbally and written - to peers and business partners to include strong questioning and listening skills and the ability to look beyond obvious answers to understand impacts.
Interview business counterparts to effectively draw out and articulate the business need/problem/ opportunity to be addressed. Provide scaled options for implementation based on the business need.
Gather and analyze requirements. Organize and document business needs to enable design and development, including elicitation and documentation of current state and future state workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, data mapping and UI wireframes.
Elicit and document processes and procedures, as well as prepare training and adoption materials
Lead and influence cross-functional teams.
Provide consultation to development team and product owner for business facing application enhancements.
Create test cases, coordinate user acceptance testing and verify production completeness
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Bachelors degree required/Masters degree preferred
A minimum of 8-10 years of experience in Business Analysis
Strong experience in requirements gathering, documentation and workflow diagramming
Experience leading and directing others to achieve measurable results.
Demonstrated ability to articulate customized solutions to meet business requirements
Advanced experience working with Agile/Lean/Kanban software development processes
Advanced skills using a variety of tools to document workflows and data mapping including but not limited to Excel, SQL and Visio
Understanding of analysis and documentation goals throughout the project lifecycle
Strong domain knowledge in finance/asset management
Ability to learn quickly and work in a changing environment and under tight deadlines
Ability to independently manage personal timelines and meet tight deadlines
Ability to successfully manage and coordinate simultaneous project deliverables across groups and teams
Strong experience with SQL, Excel, Visio, Balsamiq, Jira, Tableau