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This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/12542359

Position Summary

\ The Business Analyst will identify, define and document business processes and software requirements to be developed as software. This position will serve as a liaison between business and IT teams by facilitating communication and determining software objectives that align with stated and unstated business needs. The position will be located in the Conservation Main Office in Wichita, KS.Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. We are not able to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa.

Key Responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following:

• Work with business and delivery teams to prioritize requirements.
• Create artifacts as appropriate, including business case documentation, scope documentation, and process flows.
• Understand technical options, limitations, costs, and risks. Communicate tradeoffs to business partners and work with them to shape requirements accordingly.
• Identify and assist in prioritizing opportunities to streamline business processes.
• Manage requirements scoping throughout the delivery process.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements.
• Obtain a deep understanding of relevant business area(s) to be able to recommend solutions and build high-quality requirements.
• Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions.
• Shape business requirements by making recommendations and suggesting alternatives to proposed solutions.
• Use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.
• Promote a collaborative team environment and provide mentorship to junior-level analysts.
• Document current processes and models to understand inefficiencies or gaps.
• Help resolve competing priorities between stakeholder groups by facilitating stakeholder discussions, and escalate issues where appropriate.
• Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted; define and execute test cases.

Skills And Competencies

• Experience with agile development methodologies and agile planning tools such as Jira.
• Adaptability and a willingness to learn new skills.
• Experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
• Proven interpersonal skills and an ability to influence senior leaders and peers.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing.
• Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
• Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations and policies of a new business area.
• Strong problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Experience creating documentation such as business case documentation or business requirements summaries.