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American Public University System
  • Position Number: 1227520
  • Location: Charles Town, WV
  • Position Type: Business - Information Systems and Technology


Senior Business Analyst

Requisition Number: 18-0072
Location: Charles Town, WV

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  • Reports To: Director, Business Analyst
  • Department: Information Technology
  • Office Location: Charles Town, WV
  • FLSA Status: Exempt
  • Date Posted: June 20, 2018
  • Date Closing: Open Until Filled

Synopsis of Role:
The Senior IT Business Analyst is responsible for developing a strong relationship with internal business customers, working with business customers to understand and document current processes, and identifying areas where processes could be improved through changes to the process and/or enhancements to the system.
Essential Functions:
  • Analyzes business practices throughout American Public University System (APUS) departments and utilizes this information to influence process improvements.
  • Understands, analyzes, interprets, and documents process workflows.
  • Analyzes information obtained from management to conceptualize and define operational problems.
  • Designs new and improved processes utilizing knowledge or performance data, metrics, and process interdependencies.
  • Analyzes business processes to define the functional and detailed requirements and works with the team to design specifications and approach.
  • Studies and analyzes information about alternative courses of action to determine which plan will offer the best outcomes.
  • Develops metrics to track business process improvements within both the information technology (IT) department and business organization.
  • Oversees the transition to new processes and conducts continuous review and updates to ensure that changing business unit conditions are met.
  • Leads discovery sessions, publishes meeting minutes, and ensures all action items are completed within the time frame set.
  • Consults with business process owners to obtain additional information during system development in order to evaluate an alternative approach.
  • Conducts system demonstrations and coordinates the creation of user guides.
  • Prepares or works with the QA team to prepare quality assurance test plans and perform execution of test cases.
  • Prepares User Acceptance Testing (UAT) documentation and leads the user acceptance testing effort with the responsible business process owner.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

    Work Environment:

  • Standard office environment in Charles Town, WV.


Requirements:
Required Skills:
  • Proven leadership ability with strong interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to set and manage priorities and projects with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Keen attention to detail.
  • Ability to self-motivate and direct.
  • Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem solving abilities.
  • Ability to motivate others, and work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
  • Ability to write queries in SQL to perform data analysis and understand data models.
  • Strong understanding of software development life cycle methodologies (SDLC).
  • Understanding of relational database concepts.
Required Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field required; advance degree preferred.
  • Minimum seven years experience working in information technology as a business analyst required.
  • Exposure to information technology development methodologies such as waterfall, agile, or rational unified process (RUP) preferred.




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