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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.
- 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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