Senior Technical Business Analyst

Senior Technical Business Analyst

A day in the life:

Unison Systems is looking for a Senior Technical Business Analyst to join our client who is the global leader in real estate logistics. This will be a 100% remote contract to hire opportunity.

As Senior Technical Business Analyst for Energy you will facilitate and drive strategic conversations with business partners to elicit, analyze, document, and validate business requirements and processes. This role leads activities related to project requirement gathering, business process adoption, data governance, process improvement, reporting, and analytics.

Key responsibilities include:

• Create detailed project requirements through in-person or virtual communications, direct technical discovery and expertise.
• Select and implement software to enable processes.
• Manage oversight of vendor team resources responsible to project development lifecycle to set accurate project timelines and execution.
• Set quarterly project objectives, epics and user stories that are descriptive enough for independent teams to take action upon.
• Develop subject matter expert level understanding of the business' needs to become a thought-leader that drives innovation, efficiency, and foundational value to the organization.
• Create and establish adoption of key KPI's related to overall technology program objectives.
• Analyze and document current-state versus future-state business processes.
• Partner with business teams to adopt technology solutions and data efficiencies.

Building blocks for success

Required:

• 3+ plus years of business analyst experience.
• Ability to use technical skill such as SQL (Snowflake Preferred) and BI tools (Tableau and/or Sigma Computing preferred) along with data tools to define, perform & scope work.
• Ability to create data models using logical relationships
• Ability to create structured project plans
• Experience implementing Operational Asset Management software.
• Self-motivated focus on continuous development, results delivery, high performance, and accountability.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent experience preferred.
• Experience working with Energy assets, Utility data, or IoT devices and technologies preferred.
• Ability to articulate Return on Investment (ROI) of underlying initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to work with, set expectations and oversee offshore development team resources.
• Knowledge of system integrations, data modeling and system architecture a big plus.
• Experience in some aspect of the commercial real estate or energy transformation industries preferred.
• Experience in agile methodologies and with process management tools such as Jira, Rally, etc.
• Instinct to ask relevant probing questions that get to the "why" behind business requests.
• Comfortable with consensus building and soliciting constructive feedback.
• Strong critical thinking and verbal/written communication skills, with the ability to distill relevant and accurate information from potentially ambiguous business descriptions.
• Proven track record to make recommendations and decisions that balance a variety of factors (e.g., cost, risk, short-term vs. long-term impact) and are supported by a sound fact-base to achieve an efficient outcome.

Unison Systems Inc. is a full-service IT consulting firm that offers staffing, consulting, direct-hire recruiting and solutions delivery services. Core areas of service include: Software Engineering Data Management Project/Program Management Infrastructure & Support