Business Analyst

Job Description:

Business Analyst Summary:

Signature Consultants is seeking a Business Analyst for an opportunity in Plano, TX. The Business Analyst will assume responsibility for the technology side of one or more long-term client software projects. Successful candidates should have experience in a software development shop of some kind. Preference will be given to candidates with experience in a C# / .NET / ASP.NET environment.

Responsibilities:

• Gather, clarify, and validate business requirements through ongoing active relationships with the project stakeholders. You should feel comfortable setting an agenda, facilitating discussions, or standing up and leading the meeting
• Manage expectations with clients via in-person and written communication
• Write good business requirements and technical specifications (Please be prepared to submit a writing sample)
• Translate business requirements into technology solutions. Must be able to maintain both technical and business perspective for each project
• Create and maintain project plans identifying key project tasks, milestones, and dependencies. Business Analysts should feel comfortable either working in concert with a Project Manager, or managing to a project plan on their own
• Organize and maintain project documentation, including Points-of-View, Scopes, Estimates, Impact Analyses, and large full-system requirements documents
• Manage change request process for existing applications

Required Experience and Skills:

• At least three years’ experience as a full-time technology professional
• Advanced proficiency with standard MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Analysis skills - proven ability to model business processes; to translate a complex sequence of business events into a concise, understandable visual and/or verbal representation
• Experience with requirements elicitation activities: running JAD sessions, conducting external stakeholder interviews, etc.
• Must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and have the ability to work directly with external clients and third-party contacts
• Understanding of and usage of API's

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Background in transaction-based web applications (e.g. e-Commerce). All candidates should have a basic knowledge of web development processes and supporting technologies (browsers, web services, network infrastructure etc.)
• Consulting background, with external clients, is a big plus
• Database experience; able to write SQL query, comfortable with MS Access or other relational databases
• Experience with a CRM tool (Siebel, MS CRM, Salesforce.com)
• Experience with BI tools: data warehouse / data marts, ETL, querying and reporting, dashboards, scorecards, pivot tables

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 seventh 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.