Business Systems Analyst

Company: Horizontal
Location: Bellevue
Posted on: January 10, 2021

Job Description:

JOB SUMMARY:

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• Analyzes business and technical requirements to identify data needs and sources.
  
• Prepares source to target data mapping.
  
• Defines business rules to support ETL workflows.
  
• Consults with development team to formalize approach for loading and consuming data.
  
• Collaborates with Agile delivery team to elicit, analyze and groom business and technical requirements for large system integration projects in an Agile Scrum environment.
  
• Creates and breaks down User Stories; aligns to business capabilities; defines acceptance criteria; and supplements with necessary data models for supporting systems and data integration.
  
• Contributes and/or reviews logical and conceptual data models to help determine and recommend optimal solutions with consideration for stakeholder and systems impacts.
  
• Collaborates with Tech Leads, Data Architect, QA and IT management to represent data requirements and influence the design of new systems and integration solutions.
  
• Communicates and coordinates cross-project impacts with BA's/BSA's assigned to other projects, with aim to ensure integrity and consistency of requirements
  
• Along with manager and BSA team, advances best practices in business systems analysis by introducing templates, tools, processes and knowledge sources to other team members.
  
• Reviews work activities and written requirements of BA's, as needed, providing coaching and guidance to help ensure quality and timeliness of deliverables
  
• Facilitates and/or participates in Sprint planning sessions to create high-level Feature requirements and incorporate into Product Backlog based on dependencies and priority.
  
• Analyzes functional requirements including business processes; business rules; and exception processing, as needed.
  
• Reviews and validates requirements with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business objectives and also with system architecture / design solutions.
  
• Supports those doing testing, quality assurance and user acceptance efforts to ensure delivered solution meets acceptance criteria.
  
• Supports change management and implementation efforts by working with teams responsible for user training, procedural documents, and user support.
  
  JOB REQUIREMENTS:
  
  
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  • 7+ years Business/Systems Analyst; at least 5 years Level III
    
  • Strong Agile Scrum experience
    
  • Expertise writing and slicing user stories, managing product backlogs, and adhering to Agile ceremonies
    
  • Strong knowledge of data analysis, data structure, data modeling, and source to mapping
    
  • Experience with ETL and SQL
    
  • Excellent people and organizational skills
    
  • Demonstrate high levels of emotional intelligence
    
  • Ability to navigate between business stakeholders and technical developers
    
  • Mainframe - multi-tiered architecture
    
  • Experience with large system integration projects, especially dealing with customer and financial transaction data.
    
  • Some business process modeling experience (BPM/BPMN)
    
  • Define "As-Is/To-Be" workflows
    
  • Life insurance or similar industry experience (e.g. insurance, financial institution) strongly preferred to help better understand legacy systems within the industry
    
  • Technical programming or coding background a huge plus
    
    SKILL REQUIREMENTS:
    
    
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    • Agile- SCRUM: 4-6 years
      
    • Business Systems Analysis: 4-6 years
      
    • Requirements Verification and Validation: 4-6 years
      
    • User Stories: 4-6 years
      
    • Data Integration: 2-4 years
      
    • Data Mapping: 2-4 years
      
    • Enterprise Application Integration: 2-4 years
      
    • ETL & Data Analysis: 2-4 years
      
    • Technical Analysis: 2-4 years
      
      EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
      
      
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      • Bachelor's degree required
        
      • BA or PMP certification nice to have
        

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