What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior IT Business Analyst position at Stratford Solutions Inc.?
Job Title: Senior IT Business Analyst
Labor Category: Specialist 3
Location: 100% Remote
Job Type: Contract
Work schedule: Normal business hours Monday-Friday 9:00 Am 6:00 Pm EST 40 hours/week
Duration: 1 years
Pay Rate: $70 per hour
Job Description / Justification:
We are looking for Sr. IT Business Analyst that will be responsible for eliciting, understanding, and documenting business requirements, and translating those requirements into functional and non-functional requirements and mock-ups of the overall MyCity system. The Sr. IT Business Analyst will also provide leadership and direction to MyCity – Common Services and Service Site business analysts to make sure that their work, and the work of their respective delivery teams, is in alignment with the requirements for the overall MyCity system. They will assist in verifying that the system matches those requirements and ensuring that the system meets end user expectations. The Sr. IT Business Analyst will act as liaison between the Business, Development, and Testing teams, verifying test conditions, and assisting with User Acceptance Testing and Demonstrations. The Business Analyst Lead Engineer will be responsible for ensuring proper preparation and documentation of artifacts for Program Increment Planning, Team Synchronization, and Inspect and Adapt events and tracking the Key Features that must be delivered by the system to meet the City’s objectives
SCOPE OF SERVICES: TASKS:
- Elicit, understand, and document business requirements
- Conduct Business and System research and analysis and prepare documentation
- Translate requirements and constraints into functional and non-functional requirements and mock-ups of the application
- Provide leadership and direction to business analysts across MyCity delivery teams to ensure that their work and requirements is in alignment with the overall MyCity system requirements
- Perform validation of business, functional and non-functional requirements with stakeholders
- Design and execute user acceptance test cases, test suites and test plans
- Assist with User Acceptance Testing and Demonstrations, verifying that the application meets customer acceptance criteria and end user expectations
- Contribute to new technology projects as assigned
- Prepare high-level design documentation, business requirements documentation and supplemental functional and non-functional requirements documentation
- Act as liaison between Business, Development, Conversion, and Testing teams
- Document, communicate, and facilitate correction of requirements changes discovered during the implementation and seek sign offs. Work with the teams to ensure appropriate follow through to resolution.
MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note: Candidates who do not have the mandatory skills will not be considered
- At least 8 years of experience developing and employing functional and non-functional requirements artifacts (Use Cases, Epics, Features, User Stories, Requirements Definition, Process Definitions, User Interface Wireframes, Data Dictionaries, Field Level Mappings for Data Integration to and from COTS and custom applications).
- Experience in business requirements elicitation and creating workflows for major systems.
- Experience providing leadership and direction to business analysts working on multiple teams to deliver large complex systems.
- Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies.
- Experience with Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology.
- Experience with cloud-based SaaS solutions
DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
- Creating workflows for major systems
- Demonstrated experience in analyzing, disseminating, and interpreting policies and procedures
- Ability to understand business requirements and document them into a functional specification
- Ability to work with architects, developers, engineers, and domain experts to document non-functional requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid attention to detail and multi-tasking abilities
- Strong conflict resolution and negotiation skills
- Determining and documenting requirements for APIs
- Familiarity with Azure API Management
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps
Salary : $70
