
Business Analyst Lead - Remote / Telecommute
- Baltimore, MD
- $51.00-56.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 30% Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting and validating the Business area's user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements.
- Key contributor in the creation of project plans to define, organize and schedule requirements management and development activities.
- Provides oversight and strategic direction to lower level analysts which includes coaching, mentoring, and delegating of tasks and deliverables.
- Facilitates requirements analysis and verification sessions.
- Accountable in the tracking and management of open issues and assists in planning for resolution.
- Responsible for successful development sessions and design reviews in order to ensure design meets user requirements.
- 20% Responsible for overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification and release.
- Implements practices and procedures for end user test plans.
- Identifies and documents gaps in requirement adherence or system deficiencies/defects and coordinates appropriate action through issue resolution.
- Leads in creating formal communication to be delivered to relevant stakeholders.
- Providing guidance and training to application end users.
- 20% Identifies, documents and troubleshoots problems with their in-depth knowledge of the relationships in systems, software and processes. Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to monitor, report and resolve issues.
- Participates in the development of solutions and workarounds that solve high complexity technical, system and/or business issues.
- 15% Reviews, analyzes and creates detailed documentation of business systems, processes, software and user needs.
- Responsible for writing all documentation to established standards, in a clear and well organized manner.
- Develops and/or collaborates in key project and requirement deliverables for projects of high complexity.
- 10% Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables.
- Coordinates assigned projects from concept through implementation.
- Prioritize and manage new work requests.
- 5% Answers policy-related questions for business process, systems and software which require research and consultation with others internally and externally.
- To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
- The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor's Degree
- Business Administration, Business Candidateagement, Finance or related field
- 8 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience.
- In lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.
- Master's Degree MBA.
- Demonstrated ability to have led the deliver of high quality, effective deliverables on-time and be a significant contributor to the development of cost-effective solutions.
- Expert understanding of business analysis core competencies.
- Prior business analysis coaching and mentoring experience.
- Strong time-management and organizational skills, Expert.
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, Expert.
- Ability to organize stakeholder meetings., Expert.
- Use of Microsoft Office applications., Expert.
- Ability to train and mentor others., Expert.