Senior Business Analyst

Job Description:

Senior Business Analyst Summary:

Signature Consultants is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to work on a contract position with one of our clients located in Weston, FL. The Senior Business Analyst will develop business cases, define high level business objectives, and develop key success factors for solution delivery. He or she will function as liaison between information systems group, vendors and other departments as needed.

Responsibilities:

• Elicit, understand, interpret and represent functional and nonfunctional requirements to include business and stakeholder requirements, data and information requirements, data integration, metadata, data quality, service levels and performance
• Plan and facilitate requirements elicitation workshops using a variety of techniques such as Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, interviewing, brainstorming, job shadowing, use stories and other similar requirements elicitation techniques
• Apply judgment in interpreting and delivering business solutions that optimize the user’s experience
• Articulate technology in terms stakeholders and can understand and conversely articulate business concepts and processes to the technical team
• Analyze, categorize, document, and validate requirements to the appropriate level of granularity so that technical teams are able to translate to system design
• Work with Quality Assurance teams in defining the QA strategy, test plans and use cases for QA activities
• Recommend, evaluate, implement and champion changes in processes and procedures in order to improve the work environment
• Communicate planned and unplanned activities to appropriate parties as needed
• Anticipate and understand the impact of changes in business objectives and its effect on project scope
• Partner with management and business units to define innovative ways to utilize data and related tools to advance business objectives
• Coordinate prototype reviews

Requirements:

• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity
• Excellent written and oral communication, as well as, good organizational and presentation skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build relationships within and between individuals and cross-functional teams
• Strong facilitation and meeting management skills
• Solid understanding of project management principles
• Understanding of data management principles and practices
• Understanding of data modeling concepts and techniques
• Well versed in business analysis concepts, software development lifecycle and/or process methodologies
• Ability to understand the unique needs of the customer and translate to actionable results while delivering high quality outcomes
• Ability to influence and motivate individuals and teams to drive mutually beneficial outcomes
• High achievement orientation with a willingness to learn
• Ability to think abstractly, identify patterns, and generate ideas and solutions
• Strong desire to understand the organization, its industry, and its strategies
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Overall understanding of technology concepts, trends, and capabilities
• Good process-orientation with the ability to understand and reengineer existing business processes to recommend new processes and procedures
• Proactively accept and drive change to accomplish positive outcomes
• Understands and demonstrates the company’s core values of Communication, Consideration, Cooperation, Accountability and Innovation
• Skillful at applying business and technical skills to drive innovation and performance improvement
• Minimal travel as needed
• Experience eliciting and documenting technical requirements from developers and architects

 About Signature Consultants, LLC

Headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Signature Consultants was established in 1997 with a singular focus: to provide clients and consultants with superior staffing solutions. For the eighth consecutive year, Signature was voted as one of the “Best Staffing Firms to Work For” and is now the 14th largest IT staffing firm in the United States (source: Staffing Industry Analysts). With 26 locations throughout North America, Signature annually deploys thousands of consultants to support, run, and manage their clients’ technology needs. Signature offers IT staffing, consulting, managed solutions, and direct placement services. For more information on the company, please visit www.sigconsult.com.