Business Analyst - Freelance [Remote]

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• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
• LOCATION: Remote - United States only (TimeZone: CST | Partial overlap)
• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $100 – $125/hr

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
Interview process: 1x 45-minute interview
This role is looking to hire ASAP through the end of Y23.
You'll need to overlap at least 6 hours with CST
Possibility of extension
Basic Qualifications
Experience:

• Excellent problem-solving, organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to evolve solution strategy based on research, data and industry trends
• Experience with Jira & Confluence
• 3+ years product or service experience, including delivering or leading software solutions in a complex, fast-paced environment
• Experience using Agile methodology, with strong communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills

Skills:

• Ability to effectively influence, convince and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills
• Effective Team player with strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage multiple activities and tasks under time constraints
• Ability to translate verbal, end-user requirements into written functional designs
• Strong skills in requirements gathering, system design documentation, and writing functional specifications
• Strong critical / analytical thinking and problem-solving skills

What you’ll be working on
The Business Analyst is responsible for supporting technical delivery and integrations of our enterprise services, including product data service, breed service and single sign-on. This role will focus on cross-team collaboration, requirements gathering, execution, as well as strategy support.
Primary Responsibilities

• Understand the business strategy needs, the end user needs and distill this into requirements and executions.

• Communicate all issues, risks, concerns and status to the management, business partners and other departments in a timely manner
• Use product lifecycle and agile methodologies to ensure delivery of well aligned, high value solutions with measurable outcomes
• Partner with and serve as a liaison between Product Management, IT, other internal and external partners and stakeholders to ensure comprehensive requirements, clear communication and delivery expectations.
• Support the analysis and resolution of solution issues
• Support data mapping and process documentation for implementations across the brand
• Partner with the product lead to design business scenarios and use cases
• Deliver secure, stable, and innovative technical solutions
• Identify opportunities for improvement such as gaps in existing functionality, troubleshooting, process automation and driving the development/implementation process
• Partner closely with IS/IT and our client's product teams to ensure consistent technical execution and delivery
• Help monitor business and health metrics on an ongoing basis
• Champion optimizations in technology and delivery processes that enrich and enable results for enterprise services and it’s customers.

Apply Now!
Braintrust Job ID: 6626
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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