Business Systems Analyst

Location:  Richmond, VA - local candidates only
Position Type: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite
Contract Length:  7 months

Position Overview:
The Business Systems Analyst is expected to have a combination of advanced business analysis and systems analyst expertise to support multiple business lines. Working in a dynamic, collaborative environment, you will analyze, design, and implement features, troubleshoot issues, and mentor junior team members while ensuring business needs are well-documented and communicated to technical teams.

Duties:

• Perform related tasks & activities, from small maintenance items and defects to large projects
• Ensure SDLC processes are being followed
• Product thorough User Stories with sufficient Acceptance Criteria Development and Specification necessary to support the product owner, SME, development and quality assurance stakeholders
• Acquire full understanding of business vision for project, enhancements, and defect remediation
• Make recommendations to business on best practices
• Provide business analysis support for project requests making sure to examine build vs. buy options that may be available and align with business strategic goals including cost / benefit analysis for new efforts.
• Use elicitation techniques (e.g., JAD sessions, interviews, surveys, shadowing) to understand and document true business needs and intent, including RFPs, SOWs, requirements, processes, and flows.
• Formulate and document well-formed user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
• Understand how change to a component/application impacts the whole system and make recommendations for the logical design of system enhancements
• Provide design support for technical teams in planning and execution of project design sessions prior to development iterations to identify and specify logical system design
• Work with Development Lead / System Engineer as liaison to communicate business requirements through elicitation of additional technical requirements
• Gather integration requirements for data to include identification and assessment of data sources and creation of source/target mappings
• Adapt current integration processes to accommodate changes in source systems and new business user requirements
• Partner with technical and quality assurance resources to ensure that requirements are implemented and tested per the acceptance criteria
• Assist Product Owners with UAT planning and execution integrated with QA test planning (as needed)

Required Skills:

• 5 years of experience writing clear, accurate and measurable requirements in the format of user stories with acceptance criteria
• 5 years of experience creating and maintaining documentation used to communicate business process information, system functionality and other materials needed for support
• 3 years of experience writing interface requirements and related documentation such as source to target mapping
• 5 years of experience facilitating, leading and participating in effective meetings to understand the problem/opportunity, gather requirements and facilitate UAT
• 2 years of experience writing basic SQL queries (select statements only) to find, analyze and summarize data findings
• 5 years of experience learning new systems, processes and procedures
• 5 years of experience balancing multiple complex assignments with minimal assistance
• 5 years of experience tracking down the source & details surrounding a problem/opportunity, accurately analyzing it and clearly identifying the activities needed to address it.
• 5 years of full SDLC experience on agile, waterfall and hybrid methodologies

Preferred Skills:

• 2 years of experience reading and interpreting vendor API information
• 2 years of experience working with and partnering with vendor support
• 2 years of experience using Atlassian JIRA to manage requirements