Senior Business Analyst - Des Plaines, IL

The IT Business Analyst role at Client partners with our business to define areas of functional need
and translate those needs into requirements for project execution. The primary areas of responsibility
include:

 

• Understand and document business requirements
• Analyze current state and provide gap analysis to support roadmap
• Translate business needs into actionable technology requirements
• Develop and describe business benefit
• Create and cascade reference and training material
• Deliver projects against business objectives and strategy while ensuring a quality supportable
  product
• Develop long-term strategy and application/function roadmap
  
   

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate business stakeholders in a group setting in order to identify root causes for technology inefficiency and large-scale improvement opportunities.
• Create business process documentation and drive streamlining and simplifying of cross-
  functional documentation to make it easy to find and use.
• Facilitate workshops to document As Is and To Be work process flows using effective small group techniques.
• Use the best fit development methodology to turn improvement opportunities into application
  requirements or user epics. Groom one or more application backlogs.
• Engage with business users to ensure benefits are well understood and properly documented.
• Develop complex user and training documentation and provide train-the-trainer or direct user
  training as appropriate.
• Support and facilitate vendor selection process. Assist the BRM with the vendor relationship at
  the project level.
• Partner w/Project Team to deliver against project roadmap, while meeting Business project
  needs.
• Assist BRM in performing role of liaison between Business Project Lead and technical team for
  project issue resolution.
• Provide input into and feedback of testing scripts. Identify and engage business resources for
  user acceptance testing (UAT). Analyzes test results to support resolution.
• Translate strategic intent to specific capabilities for the initiative. Provide input into the area
  roadmaps.
  
   

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Business or related.
• 3-5 years of BI business analysis experience.
• 3-5 years of IT projects experience using Agile project methodology.
• Strong SQL skills. Understand basic database and development concepts.
• The focus will be on data warehousing and business intelligence projects, so the candidate
  must have experience in this area.
• Oracle DB, Snowflake, OBIEE, or Tableau experience a plus.
  
   

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong group facilitation skills.
• Familiarity with project management concepts and tools include waterfall and agile.
• Ability to model business process. Familiarity with standard flowcharting tools such as Visio or
• Lucidchart is preferred.
• Ability to manage application/product backlogs. Familiarity with JIRA is preferred.
  
   

Qualifications:

• Experience level: Experienced
• Education: Bachelors

Skills:

• Functional
• Business Analysis