Senior It Business Analyst (100% Virtual)

The Senior IT Business Analyst role at US Foods partners with our business to define areas of functional need and translate those needs into requirements for project execution. The primary areas of responsibility include:

• Translate business needs into actionable technology requirements.
• Understand and document business requirements into agile stories.
• Develop and describe the business benefit.
• Provide functional and acceptance testing support.
• Analyze the current state and provide a gap analysis.
• Create and cascade reference and training material.
• Deliver sprints and product releases against business objectives, priorities, and strategy while ensuring a quality, supportable product.

Flexible Work Policy: The work for the Sr. IT Business Analyst position is completed 100% remotely anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories. This position may have the potential to travel up to 20% dependent on business needs.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Engage with business users to ensure benefits are well understood and properly documented.
• Create business process documentation and drive streamlining and simplifying cross-functional documentation to make it easy to find and use.
• Collaborate and contribute to the Digital Roadmap.
• Assist BRM in performing the role of liaison between the Business Project Lead and technical team for project issue resolution.
• Use the appropriate development methodology to turn improvement opportunities into application requirements or user features. Groom multiple application backlogs.
• Facilitate acceptance testing and production release readiness.
• Facilitate business stakeholders in a group setting to identify root causes for technology inefficiency and large-scale improvement opportunities.
• Translate strategic intent to specific capabilities within Digital Teams. Provide input into the area roadmaps.
• Facilitate working sessions to deliver new feature processes and workflows.
• Provide input into and feedback on testing scripts. Facilitate and actively participate in acceptance (UAT) and production readiness testing. Analyze test results to support the resolution.
• Develop complex user and training documentation and provide train-the-trainer or direct user training as appropriate.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Training:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience

Related Experience:

Minimum 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst.

Specific requirements for this department:

The Seller Tools product teams include product specific to our National Sales customer, including Healthcare and Hospitality. This position will be focused on those products.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• Strong group facilitation skills.
• Ability to model business processes. Familiarity with standard flowcharting tools such as Visio or Lucidchart preferred.
• Ability to manage application/product backlogs. Familiarity with JIRA preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with agile project/product management concepts and tools.