Sr. Business Analyst

Sr. Business Analyst (Web Services Focused)

Reston VA

1 Monthly meeting in Reston VA - Candidates only from DC, MD, VA

Senior Business Analyst who will have the responsibility to ensure that the business's need for changes to processes, policies and/or information systems are identified, understood, defined, documented and acted upon by eliciting, analyzing, documenting, validating, specifying and verifying the needs of business or user. The incumbent is accountable for the gathering and synthesizing of business requirements for moderate complexity software, systems, processes and/or services and translates them into specifications ensuring the business objectives are met. As the functional expert, the incumbent serves as a strategic conduit between the business area and the technical or software development team through which requirements flow.

We are seeking candidates that specifically have strong experience within the following:

- Solid Web Services understanding: Must have a strong understanding of how Web Services are impacted by new technologies getting introduced to an environment and how to create user stories for backend Web Services tasks
- Solid Agile/Scrum framework understanding (certs are considered a big plus)
- Able to support new features being introduced into a product / able to support product owners with similar tasks as their Senior BA
- Strong requirement gathering and user story creation abilities is critically important
- Strong Analytical Skill Set: Will get requirements from their customers (SOW-s, requirements/functional docs) that will have to read through, analyzed, and clarify how this will impact their current systems.

- BS Degree + a Min of 5 years of Technical Business Analyst exposure (9 years without a degree is acceptable)
- Must have experience working within the Healthcare Insurance/Payor industry
- Must have strong User Story creation abilities, product requirement gathering abilities, creation of functional tech to Non-Tech documentation, grooming, etc-.
- SW Tools: Jira and Visio
- Solid Web Services understanding: Must have a strong understanding of how Web Services are impacted by new technologies getting introduced to an environment and how to create user stories for backend Web Services tasks
- Solid Agile/Scrum framework understanding (certs are considered a big plus)
- Able to support new features being introduced into a product / able to support product owners with similar tasks as a their Senior BA
- Strong requirement gathering and user story creation abilities is critically important
- Strong Analytical Skill Set: Will get requirements from their customers (SOW-s, requirements/functional docs) that will have to read through, analyzed, and clarify how this will impact their current systems
- Outstanding writing and communication abilities to produce business functional requirements documents, user interface specifications, use cases, user stories, and/or data dictionaries
- Strong demonstrated analytical skills applied to business software solutions maintenance and/or development.
- Strong process analysis skills
- Strong process documentation skills

UrBench is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, status as a parent, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics as defined by federal, state or local laws.