Senior Business Analyst

Pay Range: $45.00hr - $50.00hr

Job Overview:

The organization is seeking a short-term Senior Business Analyst / Technical Writer to support the business process analysis and requirement gathering towards procurement and implementation of the Data Modernization Initiative project.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts stakeholder analysis.
• Conducts market research and analysis.
• Identifying and documenting current and future state process workflows.
• Creating User stories and acceptance criteria.
• Develops Contextual diagrams, functional decomposition, and process workflows.
• Develops the following documents: business process models, use cases, wireframes, entity relationship diagrams, data dictionaries, and system context diagrams.
• Gathers, develops, documents and validates business, functional and technical requirements.
• Perform functional and integrated testing.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation and artifacts including analysis, reports and user documentation.
• Works with project managers, developers, and end users to ensure application designs meet business requirements.
• Create and maintain Requirement Traceability matrix.
• Provide business analysis deliverables as input to the procurement documents and assist in writing the procurement documentation as required.
• UAT support, including developing test scenarios and cases.
• Supporting required system go-live activities.
• Build Business, stakeholder, solution and transition requirements.
• Document gap analysis.
• Authors and prepares meeting minutes to be distributed to a variety of audiences.
• Authors user stories, test scripts, and other Agile deliverables.
• Follows PMO PM and BA methodology documentation.
• Attends all PMO meetings.
• The candidate will perform other related work as required.
• Travels in the local Raleigh area to attend meetings.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities / Competencies:

• Demonstrated experience participating in the documentation of functional requirements and technical specifications for existing and new applications.
• Strong writing and communication skills and the ability to build relationships with team members and clients.
• Results-oriented individual with a very strong work ethic and the ability to demonstrate excellent negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work with customers as a member of cross-divisional work groups and maintain positive and productive relationships with customers, peers, and superiors.
• Ability to act independently with sound business judgment and thrive in an environment with diverse communication styles.
• Ability to prepare and present oral and written documents clearly and concisely.
• Exhibit comprehensive knowledge of the work requirements demonstrated by an in-depth understanding and use of advanced principles, theories and practices associated with Business Analysis and PMI PMBOK Guide and Standards.
• Experience working with customers to advise on strategies, alternatives and the implications of specific application customizations and interface designs.
• Possess a high-level understanding in the areas of application programming, database and system design.
• Ability to manage complex assignments with multiple work streams and aggressive timelines.
• Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) concepts and process.
• Knowledge of and experience with IT Service Management best practices and principles.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, EXCEL, PowerPoint, Visio) and Microsoft Project.
• Extensive understanding of SharePoint end user experience, sites, libraries, lists and groups.
• Healthcare data reporting systems experience is required.