Senior Business Systems Analyst (Information Technology)

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The Job Details are as follows:

The Senior Business Systems Analyst is responsible for the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation of system behavior. They should understand basic principles of project management and business engagement. They should emphasize business focus on prioritized value, attention to detail, quality, and efficient delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Manages ongoing relationship with business partner (Product) to drive satisfaction with IT (GTech).
• Coordinates project delivery by facilitating design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate systems designs and validate proposed solutions.
• Engages with XD team to incorporate usability and user interface needs when designing applications and feature enhancements.
• Serve as a key GTech liaison to Product and other GTech departments that have specific business functions.
• Collaborate with multiple Product, Shared Services and Backend Data teams to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide technology solutions.
• Responsible for taking high level requirements and Acceptance Criteria provided by the Product team, refining Epics and Stories to Dev Ready.
• Perform current state analysis of existing business systems, applications, data and functions.
• Answer questions and clarify requirements for projects and enhancements during the software delivery process.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining requirements traceability and facilitating refinement sessions.
• Mentor and coach less senior BSA team members.
• Works independently and proactively to meet Refinement deadlines, i.e., ensuring the backlog is always adequately filled with fully refined stories.
• Be a positive role model for the function, be an advocator for company policy, be enthusiastic about proving the value of the BSA role at OCLC.
• Demonstrate an Agile BSA mindset to streamline process and produce fit for purpose documentation.

Skills & Experience:

• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.
• Be an independent problem solver with the ability to creatively translate business data/requirements into technical solutions.
• Have outstanding written and verbal communication skills.  Have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Anticipate change and quickly prioritize accordingly.
• Be passionate about software and technology. Stay current on industry trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent facilitation and organizational skills.

 
Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline.
• 8+ years' experience as a Business Analyst or other related field.
• 8+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in software development.
• Experience planning, facilitating, eliciting, documenting and managing business, functional and technical requirements.
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall SDLC and Agile / Lean methodologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Products; Excel, Word and Visio.
• Experience with project tools such as JIRA and Confluence (or other Agile tools).

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

ADA/EAA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.