What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Business Analyst (IT) position at Saama Technologies Inc?
IT Sr. Business Analyst
The Sr IT Business Analyst is a trusted liaison to our business partners in the CMG (Commercial, Medical and Government affairs) organization to help drive multiple technology and analytics needs.
Requirements
- Drive the project requirements and liaison with Business and IT solution/Dev team from initiation to completion end to end as a BSA
- Facilitate workshops - story-boarding, translate story-boarding artifacts into an electronic format and provide input in design sessions.
- Perform any data analysis to support use case feasibility.
- Analyze and document requirements as user stories (scope) and business rules (use cases) and UX needs.
- Plan user acceptance test (UAT), support creation of UAT scripts and facilitate UAT.
- Analyze and document current and future business processes.
- Train the operations team as needed and support them in resolving production issues.
- Perform knowledge transfer to Training & Communication teams. Support user deployment activities as needed.
- Must build strong relationships with our stakeholders.
- Show up with an enterprise mindset and ensure work is not being done in silos.
- Be a systems thinker and look at the big picture while determining the best solution.
Skills
- 12 years of experience analyzing business requirements supporting medium to large scale projects as the primary BSA.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, or equivalent preferred.
- Strong experience in Agile methodology and working in Scrum teams is a must have. (Scrum certification is a plus).
- Strong experience with documenting Epics, User Stories and spikes using a scrum tool such as JIRA is a must.
- Some SQL experience is a must have.
- Working knowledge of using collaboration tools such as Miro, Jamboard etc.
- Demonstrated success handling initiatives of high complexity and a problem solving mindset.
- Ability to multitask, work in a fast paced environment and required to have an agile mindset.
- Experience in UI/UX design especially pertaining to Data Dashboard design is preferred.
- IBAA-CBAP or similar certification is a huge plus.
- Advanced experience with data visualization and business intelligence software (ETL, Data Integration, Master Data, Qlikview, SAS,...) a huge plus
- Pharma knowledge a plus
NOTE TO VENDORS SCREENING CANDIDATES:
Please ensure candidate demonstrates -
- A clear approach and plan to elicit requirements
- A clear approach to managing requirements and scope.
- Can clearly describe data requirements for a previous project with examples on data analysis done and any market research findings.
- An analytical/structured mindset.
- Self starter and not someone who needs to be handed the use cases. A true BSA will demonstrate proactiveness and ask the right questions to get the users thinking during requirements elicitation.
