Job Details

Job Title: Business Analyst

Locations: Kansas City, MO 64114

Duration: (12 Months Contract to Permanent)

Max Pay rate : $42/hr. on w-2 (without Benefits)

Summary

• The Business Analyst will play a key role in the Infrastructure & Operations team within the Information Technology (IT) Department
• This individual will be tasked with analyzing IT systems, identifying and documenting needs from both business and IT stakeholders, and leading the development teams’ day-to-day activities through Agile processes.
• The Business Analyst is an expert communicator, detailed planner, and has strong problem-solving skills. This is a business-facing and technology-facing role, requiring excellent communication and organization to create alignment amongst multiple business practices.
• Act as a liaison between the business stakeholders and technical delivery teams translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of your team’s technical systems and your business stakeholders’ processes.
• Elicit user and technical requirements for new initiatives and ad hoc requests from multiple internal business practices.
• Document requirements and technical details with clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Determine scope of requests and identify possible development iterations to unlock greatest client value.
• Prioritize and sequence backlog with an understanding of dependencies related to roadmap.
• Facilitate various agile team ceremonies such as stand-ups, refinement, planning and retrospectives.
• Measure and monitor development team’s process efficiency and velocity.
• Communicate project status with stakeholders and others throughout IT.
• Ensure projects stay on track towards deliverable commitments, occasionally completing trade-off analysis to influence product decisions.
• Coordinate technical implementation, testing, training and communication efforts with multiple internal business and IT groups, as well as external vendors.
• Act as an ambassador for the product and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Apply critical thinking to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or applicable years of experience in lieu of degree
• Minimum 4 years technical business analysis experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodology and practices
• Understanding of technical terminology, preferably experience in Cloud and Infrastructure projects
• Strong facilitation skills for meetings and stakeholder workshops
• Project management experience preferred
• Experience with Azure DevOps or other agile software a plus