Business Analyst - SMS (Safety Mgmt System)

Job Title : Business Analyst - SMS (Safety Mgmt System)

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Job Location : Columbus, OH 43219 (hybrid)

Onsite Requirements :

Compliance and risk management frameworks

Incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action

Data security and privacy considerations for safety records

Job Description :

Priority Skills for SMS (Safety Management System) BA :

Familiarity with compliance and risk management frameworks

Experience defining requirements for incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action modules

Knowledge of data security and privacy considerations for safety records.

BA General Key Responsibilities :

Writing requirements for the RFP process for the upcoming ERP project

Defining and documenting business requirements

Process mapping and analysis

Writing User Stories that will feed into development team refinement sessions

Documenting acceptance criteria

Being the liaison for the business in IT discovery and prioritization meetings

Running refinement sessions

Participate in discovery and completion of the estimation model

Coordinate QA and UAT

Facilitate the CAB change management process.

Purpose of Position :

The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium-to-large IT projects.

The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation, and translation to technology teams.

The Business Analyst serves the business by working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions.

As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

Tasks and Responsibilities :

Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives, and scope of new projects

Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends

Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements

Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner

Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams

Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs

Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements

Translate technical solutions and constraints to business

Develop business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost / benefit

Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities

Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities

Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives

Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests

Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements, and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project Business Analyst

Minimum Education :

Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience

CBAP Certification preferred

Minimum Experience :

3 years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium / large-scale software development projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities :

Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition, and solution evaluation

Strong facilitation, critical / analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills

Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile / Lean methodologies

Excellent MS-Excel, SQL, and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred

Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations

Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption

Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact / overlap with each other

Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques

Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives

Strong Business Acumen

Experience in defining and maturing business capability roadmaps.

Physical Demands and Work Environment :

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and / or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate.

The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material.

The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

• 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.

This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future.