Our valued client, a local and well-established organization is seeking a Business Analyst to work on software development and technology-related projects. This position is remote and the candidate should be willing to work with clients on central time zone (CST/CDT). The client is a growing company and looking to expand its team!

Position Highlights:

• Company Culture: you will be interacting with a fantastic team that values its employees and constantly works to provide a positive environment
• Commitment to Professional Development: company has a strong emphasis on providing opportunities for employees to reach their career goals through on-the-job stretch assignments, training programs, and certifications
• Excellent Compensation Package: this position provides excellent salary with performance incentives
• Competitive Benefits: competitive benefits package that includes many options to fit your individual needs

The Business Analyst is responsible for business-facing communication, solutions development, project coordination, documentation, and quality assurance on an Agile software development team.

In this role, you will:

• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Identify business needs; determine and carry out necessary processes and practices.
• Monitor progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
•  Adapts to competing demands, organizational changes and new responsibilities
• Obtain a deep understanding of relevant business area(s) to be able to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements.
• Use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.
• Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
• Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements.
• Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize requirements.
• Help resolve competing priorities between stakeholder groups by facilitating stakeholder discussions and escalate issues where appropriate.
• Manage requirements scoping throughout the delivery process.
• Create artifacts as appropriate, including business case documentation, scope documentation, and process flows.
• Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions.
• Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases.
• Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps.
• Identify and assist in prioritizing opportunities to streamline business processes.

What you will need:

• 3 + years of experience as a business analyst and accomplishments to deliver projects and other transformative initiatives
• Experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations and policies of a new business area.
• Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
• Proven interpersonal skills and an ability to influence senior leaders and peers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation or business requirements summaries.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills.
• 4-year Degree or Equivalent Work Experience

US Citizen and Greencard Holders Only. Sponsorship not available with this position.