Business Analyst

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Job description

Sample Tasks:
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints
• Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely. Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements specifying an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who must base their work on the requirements
• Identify the current- and future-state business processes; define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements
• Lead requirements analysis and verification, ensuring that requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and verifiable, and that they conform to standards
• Participate in requirements prioritization and facilitate the negotiation of requirements amongst multiple stakeholders
• Analyze and document business requirements and required data to deliver work products throughout the project life cycle
• Translate business requirements to System/Functional specifications, and pass them on to Application Developers
• Coordinate Business Validation to verify that a set of end-to-end business processes function as intended
• Work with the product manager or project sponsor to document the product's vision and the project's scope
• Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents and work products derived from those documents to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project
• Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools
• Identify ways to assist product management in product planning through requirements development and analysis
• Propose new product features and updates
• Provide knowledge transfer to staff
• Perform other related duties as assigned

Minimum Qualifications:
• Five (5) years of Business Analysis experience
o A Master's degree substitutes for two years of experience, or a Bachelor's degree substitutes for one year of experience. (A degree can only be used as a partial substitute for the overall five years of Business Analysis experience that is required in this Minimum Qualification. A degree cannot be substituted for the experience/engagements required in the other Minimum Qualifications, below.)
• Two (2) engagements lasting at least six (6) months each in a Business Analyst role
• Two (2) years of combined experience in a Senior or Lead Business Analyst role

Desired Skills:
• Experience leading small sub-groups of a project team
• Experience facilitating or leading requirements gathering sessions
• Experience directly interacting with Project Sponsors, Stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts or Development Team Members
• Experience as the Lead of a project work stream or Business Analyst team on longer term project(s)
• Project experience with systems that leverage data from multiple sources across an organization
• Experience working with and gathering requirements based upon HL7 data standards for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information
• Experience gathering requirements and configuration needs of a COTS system implementation
• Experience with all aspects of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Experience with different project methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)
• Bachelor's degree in Information Services
• Business Analyst Certification (IIBA certification or equivalent)

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