Diversified Systems.com · 1 day ago
Senior Business Analyst
Columbus, OH
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expDiversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing IT project consulting services nationwide. The Senior Business Analyst will act as the intermediary between business and IT, eliciting requirements, defining user needs, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful project outcomes.
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Responsibilities
Act as the intermediary between business and IT, using a deep understanding of business processes and technology to help business partners achieve their desired outcomes
Work with business partners to elicit high-level requirements and capture business needs
Understand the customer journey and define user requirements
Identify unarticulated business needs and coordinate between stakeholder groups to address them
Provide consultative support on business-led technology initiatives
Work with technical team in creating prototypes and codesigning innovative solutions
Elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders
Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision
Conduct interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
Work with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements
Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes
Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
Develop and utilize standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely
Translate conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements and non-functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
Assist in defining and executing test cases
Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
Work collaboratively with ITS team and OMES modules key project staff to ensure project (internal and external application) needs for functionality are attained as reflected in the requirements for the solution
Review and provide feedback on deliverables to ensure the deliverables are completed with quality
Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members
Perform other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
BS/BA degree or combination of education & experience
10-14 years of broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: Applications Development, Enterprise/Solution Architecture, Project Management, Vendor Management, Quality Assurance, Infrastructure, and Maintenance and Support
8+ years of IT Business Analyst working experience, especially in developing business requirements, functional requirements, and non-functional requirements
Experience conducting facilitated workshops for requirements gathering and analysis with multiple entities
Experience creating workflows using formal notation such as the Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN)
Extensive experience in converting business requirements and functional requirements to use cases and user stories with acceptance criteria
Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes
Demonstrated knowledge of both traditional Waterfall and Agile methodologies
Demonstrated ability to quantify resource requirements and measure and communicate proposed project benefits
Experience developing report/dashboard specifications
Experience developing Requirements Traceability Matrix
Strong organization and writing skills. Experienced developing graphic representations
Excellent written and oral communication skills interacting with technical and business teams
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong risk assessment, problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills
Preferred
IIBA-certified Business Analyst
3+ years of experience in Medicaid and/or healthcare systems development projects
Excellent interpersonal and written/oral communication skills, including ability to negotiate compromise and demonstrate diplomacy in sensitive situations as well as interact effectively with peers and management across diverse cultures and fast-paced environment
Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
Strong customer service orientation
Recognize patterns and opportunities for improvement throughout the entire organization
Establish facts and draw valid conclusions
Benefits
Flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages
Company
Diversified Systems.com
(DSI) was established to provide quality IT consulting services to state and federal government agencies and commercial businesses looking to increase market share, improve profits, and increase productivity while reducing costs and turnaround time.
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2023 (1)
2021 (2)
2020 (4)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Archie Williamson
Founder and Senior Managing Director
Nathan Paige, MBA, ITIL
Managing Partner & EVP
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