It Business Analyst Jobs

• Perform analysis of potential solutions against business requirements and financial impact to identify the best solution for the business.
• Collaborate with project team members (developers, architects, product owners) to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
• Perform data analysis to gain a solid understanding of the business data in order to collaborate effectively with the business users, business analysts, and data owners.
• Actively engages with the client community (internal and external) throughout all stages of project lifecycle, including business requirement elicitation through implementation.
• Develop and validate source to target mappings and transformation logic required to support business needs. Understand the importance of capturing data lineage.
• Partner with internal business units to define information requirements and translate them into appropriate data solutions
• Independently elicit requirements by the use of interviews, workflow analysis, requirements workshops, and surveys to provide business process descriptions, business requirements, use cases, and user stories.

Collaborate - build relationships!

• Consult and develop relationships with all client personnel that foster closer ties between the business and Information Technology department.
• Continually seeks opportunities to increase client satisfaction and deepen client relationships.

Test and Troubleshoot – focus on quality!

• Supports quality assurance through test plan and/or script creation, QA team collaboration, and project team validation.
• Act as a facilitator for UAT (User Acceptance Testing) with the client, third party vendors or other testers that use the product, leveraging acceptance criteria defined with the business partner.

Project Execution – get it done!

• As needed, facilitates project management role on small projects, ensuring the right capabilities are encompassed in the project team and scope.
• Assists project managers in defining project milestones, based on business need, requirements, and defined solution.

• Team of associates passionate about achieving great results for clients and give back to the communities where we live and work
• Ability to work on critical projects with a variety of teams and leaders, proving your ability to influence and make business impact through providing technology solutions
• Collaborative culture that values diverse backgrounds and perspectives while emphasizing teamwork and a strong sense of partnership
• Information technology is a core part of Baird’s business strategy and plays a critical role in the growth and transformation of the firm

• A minimum of three (3) years of prior IT experience, including at least two (2) years related BA experience.
• Strong experience with writing business requirements, use cases and user stories
• Experience working on projects related to the creation, support and enhancement of web applications.
• Previous experience with data analysis including writing SQL queries and interpreting results to help answer business questions, troubleshoot and support client data needs
• Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office is required.
• Experience, comfort level and success working in agile environment
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, ability to influence without authority.
• Motivated by small quick wins and process improvement
• Detail oriented and possess exceptional organizational, time management, and problem solving skills.
• A college degree, ideally a B.S. in Computer Science, MIS, Business Administration, or Finance is preferred, or equivalent experience.

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