Senior Business Data Analyst

Job Title: Senior Business Data Analyst

Duration: 36 Months

Location: New York, NY

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify functional and non-functional requirements for information technology projects and programs using industry standard analysis techniques such as data flow modeling, workflow analysis, and functional decomposition analysis.
• Prepare, review and update requirements, specifications, business processes and recommendations for proposed solutions using standard templates.
• Work closely with the senior business analyst,business units and subject matter experts in definition, testing, and implementation of functional requirements.
• Solicit requirements through interviews, workshops, surveys, and/or existing systems documentation or procedures.
• Identify and document existing system deficiencies.
• Have considerable knowledge of existing information processing systems and emerging technology trends to match them with current and future business needs.
• Participate in meetings with both technology and business teams to facilitate the understanding, clarification, and implementation of requirements.
• Create/revise/own analysis artifacts and deliverables such as process maps, business requirements, business rules, user stories, user workflows, use cases, user interfaces, screens, and acceptance test cases.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish client requests from the underlying true needs.
• Understand client organization's direction, structure, business issues and data challenges.
• Define and/or contribute to roll-out strategies.
• Be the liaison between business units, technology teams and support teams.
• Manage client expectations effectively.
• Communicate effectively with clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions with project management.
• Continually seek opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships.
• Create and maintains strategic partnership between business needs and technology delivery.
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Assist in the facilitation of team and client meetings.
• Understand how to communicate difficult/sensitive information tactfully.
• Promote active listening with team members.
• Contribute appropriately to conversations.
• Prepare written business correspondence that is coherent, effective, professional and engaging.
• Possess understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
• Understand technical design specifications.
• Understand Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.
• Understand how legacy and web-based systems interface with each other.
• Define and set standards/templates for acceptance test cases, acceptance testing and test matrices.
• Define acceptance test conditions and develop accurate/complete test plans.
• Ensure issues are identified, tracked, reported on and resolved in a timely manner.
• Conduct acceptance testing efforts according to plan.
• Work independently with clients to define concepts and under direction of senior business analyst and project managers.
• Take inputs from supervisor and appropriately apply comments/feedback.
• Understand the necessity of project standards and apply them consistently.
• Understand how various issues affect each other and the outcome of projects.
• Develop internal and external meeting objectives and agendas.
• Prioritize multiple tasks effectively.
• Demonstrate the ability to cooperate with a variety of people and achieve results.
• Proactively initiate, develop, and maintain effective working relationships with team members.
• Work with client personnel to identify required changes.
• Communicate needed changes to development team.

Required Skills:

• Minimum of 8 years' experience with writing application software, data analysis, data access, data structures, data manipulation, databases, programming, testing and implementation, technical and user documentation, software conversions; environments include but are not limited to mainframe, mid-range, personal computers, laptop; available to assist and/or lead in the design of program specifications and the implementation of software solutions.
• BA/BS Degree or equivalent, in a technology-related field or other degree preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in specifying, analyzing, and documenting requirements for mission-critical business applications in a web/client-server environment.
• Effective presentation and leadership skills.
• Knowledge of different application development environments, tools, and methodologies.
• Expertise using Microsoft Office applications.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally and confidently with a diverse group, of executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Strong analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to interpret business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements.
• Strong facilitation skills and proven experience in driving consensus across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Process-driven analysis skills and a background in various requirements elicitation methods.
• Proficiency with Waterfall, RUP, and Agile SDLC processes.
• Ability to accurately estimate level of work to be provided for delivery commitments to stakeholders.