Business System Analyst

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Job description

A Little About This Gig

Agility Partners is seeking qualified applicants to fill a Business Analyst position for a global library cooperative that provides shared technology services, research, and community programs for its members and the community. This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for the elicitation, analysis, documentation, and validation of system behavior.

• Manages ongoing relationship with business partner (Product) to drive satisfaction with IT.
• Coordinates project delivery by facilitating design reviews and walk-throughs to communicate systems designs and validate proposed solutions.
• Obtains key inputs from enterprise architecture team and identifies solution interdependencies.
• Engages with UI/UX team to incorporate usability and user interface needs when designing applications and feature enhancements.
• Serve as a key IT liaison to Product and other IT departments that have specific business functions.
• Collaborate with multiple Product, Shared Services and Backend Data teams to identify, document and communicate business needs and provide technology solutions.
• Responsible for taking high level requirements and Acceptance Criteria provided by the Product team, refining Epics and Stories to Dev Ready.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into detailed data, abstract-up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs.
• Perform current state analysis of existing business systems, applications, data and functions.
• Answer questions and clarify requirements for projects and enhancements during the estimation, refinement, development and QA process.
• Responsible for developing and maintaining requirements traceability and facilitating refinement sessions.
• Works independently and proactively to meet Refinement deadlines, i.e., ensuring the backlog is always adequately filled with fully refined stories.

The Ideal Candidate

• 3+ years' experience as a Business Analyst or other related field.
• 3+ years of overall IT experience with significant experience in software development.
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall SDLC and Agile / Lean methodologies.
• Experience with Microsoft Products; Excel, Word and Visio.
• Experience with project tools such as JIRA and Confluence (or other Agile tools).
• Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects, activities and tasks under time constraints.
• Be an independent problem solver with the ability to creatively translate business data/requirements into technical solutions.
• Have outstanding written and verbal communication skills. Have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent facilitation and organizational skills.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical discipline.

Reasons To Love It!

This is a great opportunity to work for a nonprofit that provides a dynamic, fulfilling work environment that is productive, collaborative, innovative-and fun. We work hard to build the technology that connects thousands of today's libraries. We believe you'll do the best work of your life when you're living the best life possible, which is why we work hard to make a job a meaningful part of a balanced life- not a substitute for one.

• Great pay and outstanding company culture
• Paid Holidays
• 50% medical coverage for you and your entire family
• Short/long term disability
• Life insurance options
• 401K
• An organization that focuses on company culture and a healthy work life balance