Lead Business Analyst

Position: Lead Business Analyst (SharePoint)
Location: Dublin CA (Only Local candidates who can travel on daily basis)
Type: 3 months to start - extensions expected, possible CTH

Reason for Position.

• Every year, they do enhancements to make sure they re in compliance with MSFT standards and add functionality (more interactivity, no auto archival, implement governance rules, implement automation, etc.)

• Two buckets:

• Make frontend more interesting/user friendly
• Helping backend content management teams to make their work easier

Project Description:

• The Bridge (Stores and Field Leaders)
• Will split their time working on both projects
• Auto Archival

Key Responsibilities

• Performing business analysis activities at the strategic, operational, and organizational level; working with key users in the continual improvement of business productivity & efficiency
• Conduct end user interviews and where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements.
• Collaborating with Business Stakeholders and technical resources to ensure understanding and proper implementation of requirements.
• Coordinate with project teams to develop and implement usability designs and testing objectives related to project objectives.
• Design or match technology solutions to enable business collaboration requirements and processes.
• Maintain a high level of expertise with the organization s current productivity and collaboration platform(s).
• Keep abreast of the changing environment of workplace and collaboration technologies.
• Maintain a catalog of common productivity and collaboration patterns to be reused in new collaboration solution designs.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team, using new and existing collaboration patterns
• Managing projects and leading efforts in the support of existing systems, processes, services and/or in the execution of new projects ensuring that:

o Use Cases and Requirements are defined accurately

o Detailed Functional Designs are created and handed off to Development Team

o Test plans and training plans are designed and executed successfully

o All required system and user documentation is created accurately

o Anticipated business outcomes are achieved

• Supporting existing production systems

o Defining and prioritizing system problems and enhancement requests; analyzing to identify and address root causes

o Ensuring the related fixes and/or enhancements are tested successfully (by IT and by key users)

o Ensuring users receive appropriate training and existing documentation is updated accurately

• Evaluate client business challenges and work with the team to arrive at the best-fit technology solution
• Work with teams to capture best practices and develop case studies and other core deliverables to build solution offerings.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Core BA Skillset

o Elicit, Analyze, document, and validate business requirements

o Create use cases, functional requirements, process flows, documentation

• Strong requirements gathering/use cases/functional documentation
• Experience with productivity & collaboration platforms (SharePoint, Teams, M365)
• Business process analysis and process mapping
• Stakeholder management across business and technical teams
• UAT coordination
• M365 Ecosystem Knowledge
• Soft Skills are KEY
• A little more technical on SharePoint Online.