Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc. · 1 day ago
Technical Business Analyst
Portland, OR
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expMotus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc. is a leading recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, and they are seeking a Technical Business Analyst for a client in the utility sector. This role involves providing technical business analysis support for IT projects, collaborating with various stakeholders, and ensuring effective requirements management throughout project lifecycles.
Human ResourcesInformation Technology
Hiring Manager
Angela Gatewood
Responsibilities
Provide business analysis support and assistance, eliciting documents and managing requirements, to support the implementation of IT systems for a variety of internal clients implementing small to medium-sized projects, as per the organization’s established System Life Cycle (SLC) process
Recommend the artifacts and level of detail for the business analysis effort, i.e. the analysis objective which supplies the technical team with information that assists in planning a system build
Collaborate with senior or lead org analysts or manager in planning the requirements gathering and elicitation strategy (e.g. techniques to be used, appropriate for the project type and the stakeholders involved)
Take ambiguous, high-level, and incomplete information about a business problem and synthesize it into a clear, concise scope statement
Conduct user/stakeholder interviews, potentially including job shadowing and 'day in the life' exercises
Analyze business processes and create current-state 'as is' and future-state 'to be' models, including conducting gap analyses
Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability from goals and objectives to detailed functional requirements
Evaluate and assess business process change impacts to help inform Change Management activities
Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to present a complete picture of the business need and description of how the proposed solution meets that need
Conduct collaborative exercises, e.g. user story mapping, to align users and technical teams on the meaning of requirements and the needed product
Draft a range of requirements documentation/artifacts, e.g. user stories, context diagrams, swim lane diagrams, non-functional requirements, as needed to define the solution
Collaborate with IT technical representative(s) in the development of test plans and acceptance criteria, traced to business and functional requirements. This work may include coordinating and facilitating test scenarios, User testing, etc
Elicit objective criteria from business users for the evaluation and acceptance of requirements
Conduct detailed reviews of requirements and obtain approval from appropriate parties
Facilitate the requirements documentation throughout the entire lifecycle of the project
Present information effectively in a variety of formats, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and Visio flowcharts
Work with the project teams and vendor awarded the contract to identify the gap/analysis work needed to implement the solution
Qualification
Required
A bachelor's degree in information technology/systems, business administration, or a closely related technical discipline is preferred
7 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor's degree
11 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree
Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of technical business analysis and information technology and progressively more technical in nature
Proficiency with Microsoft products, including Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook or similar
Technical interviewing skills and Functional/process interviewing in the business environment
The ability to facilitate groups through process design and requirements gathering sessions
Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical teams
Ability to develop and maintain effective client and stakeholder relationships
Strong technical writing skills and the ability to present information in various forms (verbally, in writing, visually, graphically)
Valid U.S. Driver's License is required
Benefits
Employee benefits
Company
Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc.
Founded in 2006, Motus Recruiting is an award-winning firm in the Pacific Northwest specializing in accounting and finance, professional services, technology solutions, and executive search.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Orlando Williams
Chief Executive Officer
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