Dexter Technologies Inc., is a leading provider of Staffing and Recruiting Services. For over two decades, we have put countless professionals to work at exciting opportunities. We are proud of the fact that many of them have been promoted to more senior roles: management, senior management, and senior executive leadership positions.
We are actively seeking qualified candidates for the following position for our client, who is an industry leader:
Senior Business Analyst
Type: Long Term Contract
Location: Remote
Sr. Business Analyst (Sr. BA) role serves as liaison between business SMEs, project teams, development teams, senior and other stakeholders with focus on business process analysis and relevant technology solution delivery. Sr. Business Analyst is responsible for the requirements analysis and detailed design of business processes in the one or more functional domains, redesign business processes as needed, help define test strategies, test plans, and test scripts, and well-defined deployment strategy for successful delivery of technology solutions.
Key Accountabilities
- Work with business SMEs and technology partners (e.g., Solution leads and Architects) to research and analyze current state system capabilities and define technology solutions options and recommendations.
- Understands how technology applications and systems support business objectives. Drives innovation and creative solutions by providing value propositions.
- Implements best practices and uses knowledge of internal and external technology challenges and opportunities to drive business transformation. Addresses risks, limitations, and vulnerabilities.
- Collaborate with Business Stakeholders to translate the business needs into the requirements, in line with business process.
- Define, document and translate business requirements into detailed functional specifications, taking into account non-functional requirements.
- Assist in defining SMART KPIs to track business value gains for each initiative.
- Assist testing teams in translating requirements and use cases into test conditions and expected results for product, performance, user acceptance, and operational acceptance testing.
- Assist and contribute to project management activities such as: scoping and estimating project efforts, identifying risks and recommending mitigation measures, communicating activity status, as well as escalating and communicating possible issues.
- Participate in quality management reviews, including designs, prototypes and other requirements work products.
- Work closely with stakeholders to determine solutions, assess impact to existing work processes and systems, and pinpoint how to manage integration.
- Acts independently or as a member of a project team responsible for providing functional and high-level technical guidance concerning the business implications of the application of various systems and software
Knowledge/Skills Must Have
- Ability to identify requirements/backlog of business functions and their alignment with overall business strategy, and impact of said requirements/backlog.
- Strong experience with requirement analysis, SDLC, Agile and Waterfall framework, Agile Central, JIRA, MS Office tools
- Strong knowledge of business process modeling using a modeling tool e.g. Visio, Blueworks Live.
- Understanding of latest technological and process advancements in the industry-corresponding corporate functions.
- Working knowledge of digital technologies and applicability for the water and wastewater industries
- Good experience in an information technology discipline ideally with specialization in business/systems analysis and/or project management
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively with all organizational levels
- Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed organizational structure
- Ability to listen, and build rapport and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit, as well as with leadership and functional teams
- Ability to map joint organizational vision and long-term thinking, imagination, and idea generation
- Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment
- Strong leadership, business, technical, analytical, problem solving and verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to balance what is right with what is realistic
- Ability to deal efficiently with escalations and difficult situations/people under pressure
- Effective at communicating complex concepts to IT and business organizations in a manner that is easy to understand
- Highly organized and able to manage time effectively