Sr Business Analyst Jobs

Do you care about organizations and how they work? Do you have an eye for detail, always searching for ways to improve internal processes? Do you want to see businesses achieve their full potential? If the answer to these questions is yes, we would love for you to join us! At OrangePeople we consult for some of the most prestigious brands in the world. But more importantly, our consultants have a voice in the vision and future of the company. At OrangePeople, our focus is people. It’s right there in our name.

Basic Qualifications:

• Experience (5+ years) as a Business Analyst across a number of projects.
• Experience in business analysis techniques, such as information-gathering methods, requirements documentation, process modeling and process mapping.
• Excellent communication skills, highly experienced in storytelling and deck creation.
• Strong understanding of all stages in a project lifecycle and delivery approaches, e.g. waterfall, agile, etc.
• Four-year degree in field such as Information Technology, Business, or similar field or related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Required Education: 4 years degrees in Technology, business or related field
• Experience with very large highly complex global projects.

Roles & Responsibilities:

1. Provides some technical guidance and oversight.

• Supports the development of business analysis best practices for the organization.
• Leads in moderately complex analysis, providing guidance and oversight.
• Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the effectiveness of the team.

2. Supports pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility and business case definition.

• Develops moderately complex business cases, in particular ensuring benefits align to strategic and tactical business objectives.
• Creates all communication documentation and decks for the project
• Works with the business to determine the real issue that needs to be solved or the opportunity to do things differently.
• Supports the business in business, technical and financial feasibility assessments.

3. Gathers business requirements.

• Manages the scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by the project team and met by the delivered solution.
• Ensures business requirements are concise, complete, specific, and unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business.
• Combines all business requirements into a clear, managed, prioritized backlog (agile) or business requirements document (waterfall) for projects of moderate complexity.
• Provides refined requirements into project iterations in time to allow design/delivery to commence.
• Works with the business to capture and document requirements (both functional and non-functional) using a range of techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, site visits, use cases, scenario modeling, task and workflow analysis.
• Refines these business requirements to a sufficient level of detail to allow Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions.

4. Performs process modeling current and to-be.

• Discovers and documents the as-is process by applying various process modeling techniques.
• Identifies high-level solution options for the business and presents these to stakeholders for review.
• Designs and models the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement.
• Works with the Business Architect, ensuring business processes are aligned with the business and IT architecture.
• Reviews, and signs off on solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated and delivered.

5. Ensures requirements traceability through testing.

• Reviews and signs off on test scripts to ensure requirements are fully tested and met by the delivered solution.
• Coordinates UAT with the business.
• Works with the QA team to provide business input into test strategy, test plans, test conditions and UAT plans.

6. Provide business change management support.

• Shapes the business customer experience through business engagement and stakeholder management activities, including change and support activities.
• Ensures the benefits, impact and release of all changes are tracked and managed and communicated to relevant stakeholders.

7. Provides project management support.

• Delivers the required documentation during each stage of the project.
• Supports the Project Manager in post-implementation reviews and incorporates lessons learned into future work.
• Supports the review of contracts drawn up with any third party suppliers to ensure that they accurately reflect and meet the needs of the business.
• Assists the team in resolving any questions related to requirements or process.
• Assists the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OrangePeople-Wiki/Knowledge Base
• Provide status reports to OrangePeople Account Management as requested
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc

About us:

OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & technologies, innovative training & education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and strong process/methodology

orientation.