Business Analyst - Washington, United States - Mindlance

Description

Title: Business Analyst

Location: Washington, DC (Hybrid Onsite: 4 days onsite per week from Day 1)

Video Interview

Background:

MIGA IT Strategy has been focused on Modernizing current MIGA IT landscape to leverage latest technologies and cloud platform capabilities to develop a robust, scalable, secure, flexible architecture and platform for MIGA to support the evolving and growing business needs. As part of this vision, in FY21-22, MIGA Portal Application platform is redesigned, redeveloped, and migrated to Azure Cloud Platform in 2 phases. The first phase focuses on foundational activities and framework definition and migration of select apps to the cloud platform. In the second phase, focus is on migration of all the 25+ apps into the new framework and architecture defined in phased manner.

Position Overview:

The position requires a quality-focused and detail-oriented Business Analyst with a demonstrated track record of providing solutions for high-priority business goals and strategic management decisions. The incumbent should be a skilled troubleshooter and problem solver with the ability to translate business processes and problem statements into requirements.

The incumbent must be conversant with all stages of SDLC and be able to deliver results within tight timelines. The incumbent will be expected to analyze the activities of a particular business unit or line of business. He/she will make recommendations pertaining to the projects that the business unit should perform, as well as perform relevant and timely corrections to the governance structure, business processes, and the structure of business information. Must be able to illustrate the alignment (or lack thereof) between strategic goals and key business decisions, regarding products and services, partners and suppliers, organization, capabilities, and key business and IT initiatives.

The primary focus of the work includes but it is not limited to the analysis of business motivations and business operations using business analysis frameworks and related networks that link these aspects of the enterprise together. The BA must be able to develop an integrated view of the business unit or project at hand, in the context of the enterprise, using a repeatable approach, cohesive framework, and available industry standard techniques.

Essential Job Functions:

Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements, and to help develop and maintain the client relationship.

Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements.

Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed.

Develop and maintain business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans.

Document business processes and workflows, develop and maintain business process models.

Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives.

Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects.

Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements.

Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution

Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions

Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training

Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects.

Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint, Visio, and other tools and clearly present ideas to stakeholders and management.

Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine the technology support required.

Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states.

Propose recommendations based on industry best practices.

Develop, deploy, and maintain business capability models, according to the Banks institutional methodology.

Responsibilities:

The Scrum Master/Business Analyst will serve as a dedicated team member who has the primary responsibility to support their self-organizing, self-managing team successfully achieving their daily, iteration, and release goals and delivery objectives.

Proactively seeks opportunities to implement improvements to internal team processes.

Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations Agile project life cycle.

Works with their team(s) to meet established Sprint and Release goals through primary responsibilities of eliminating impediments, facilitating and training on agile processes, and leading continuous improvement efforts within their team.

Facilitates preparation and leading of agile process events including agile planning, demo/Sprint review and collaborative / design sessions.

Uses agile estimation techniques to help the team and program estimate features, epics, and user stories.

Conduct daily stand-up meetings, planning and review sessions, prioritize tasks and mitigate roadblocks.

Work collaboratively with the Product Owner and external stakeholders, as well as the product development team during the development cycle to ensure the customer needs are being met.

Develop product roadmaps and participate in Integrated Release Planning Review and evaluate work done by development team to ensure proper scope has been met.

Identify use cases that are candidates for automated regression tests.

Lead the demonstrations to the Product Owner and stakeholders.

Creating a product backlog that provides business value to the customer.

Experience conducting backlog refinement sessions with stakeholders and the Product Owner to gather and validate business requirements.

Educational Qualifications and Experience:

Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Finance

Role Specific relevant technical and business work experience as per required Level Matrix

Experience in defining and implementing technology solutions for a major financial institution.

Extensive experience as a Business Analyst for a large financial institution.

Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications with special emphasis on use cases, defining test cases, and providing user training and support.

Extensive experience with various system development lifecycle methodologies and tailoring artifacts to those methodologies.

Experience with BPM tools like iGrafix, PEGA and Cordys is a plus.

Experience in developing and using these high-level models, as required, to collect, aggregate, or disaggregate complex and conflicting information about the business.

Extensive experience with planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives (preferably both).

Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques (preferably BPMN).

Experience with analyzing business processes, identification and successful removal of bottlenecks.

Experience with process-reengineering.

Certifications:

Lean Management, Six Sigma, or similar certification (preferred)

Required Skills/Abilities:

Strong process analysis skills and ability to suggest improvements for efficiency and effectiveness of solutions based on industry best practices.

Knowledge of business analysis best practices (such as BABOK) and ability to effectively apply them.

Advanced knowledge of specific business area, process, workflows, standards, and business practices

Proven conceptual, analytical, and judgmental skills.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to communicate well with all levels, technical as well as non-technical stakeholders.

Ability to work directly with clients and management without supervision and to facilitate and navigate discussions with stakeholders to ensure clarity, prioritization, and consensus.

Leadership skills and ability to work well with diverse team members, often in multiple locations

Ability to work with different points-of-view and lead the team to convergence, while always keeping the project objectives in sight

Strong presentation and facilitation skills

Excellent personal organization skills and ability to take things to closure without follow-ups

Knowledge of Business Intelligence tools

Knowledge of ITIL, service, and process management

Certificate such as IIBA, ITIL Foundation, etc.

Knowledge and experience in COTS implementation as BA/BSA on COTS projects

Experience with implementing information security processes.

Experience with an IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) tool such as RSAM, Archer

Experience in project management

Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.