Senior Business Analyst/IT Systems Requirements Analyst

Strategic Solutions Group LLC, Senior Business Analyst/IT Systems Requirements Analyst (Needham, MA- REMOTE):

First and foremost, you are a great problem solver who can communicate effectively about information technology requirements and concerns. You can handle challenging customer meetings by bringing together key stakeholders to define requirements. You bring an open mind to conversations and actively listen before trying to solve business problems. In addition, you enjoy learning new things, have a proactive entrepreneurial spirit and are extremely reliable. We’re looking for someone who gets excited about solving business problems with technology. The duties include:

•        Utilizing knowledge of SDLC methodologies, including Agile, writing and backlog grooming of user stories using JIRA and Confluence; and ability to interpret business and functional

·       requirements

•        Planning, conducting, and directing the business problem analysis to be solved with information technology and software systems

•        Decomposing high-level business and user requirements into well-written systems requirements

•        Leading Joint Application Design Sessions which are used to gather software requirements from stakeholders

•        Assisting on delivering POCs by contributing to current business state analysis and designing future state

•        Working with the Project Manager to manage project scope, schedules, and expectations and assisting with creation of project plan and well-defined process workflow using MS Visio

•        Developing & maintaining business and technical solution documentation defining functionalities of the application written in JAVA

•        writing SQL queries on Oracle SQL developer for data warehouse modelling and data mapping

•        Coordinating with Development and Software QA resources and assisting with Software Quality Assurance when needed

•        Ensuring customer satisfaction and maintain strong customer relationships

•        Creating and supporting data model validations

•        Architecting, designing and developing reporting dashboards using Tableau/standard BI tools

Minimum Requirements:

Masters degree in Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Computer Science or a closely related field, plus 3 years of professional business analysis experience; or in the alternative, Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Information Systems Management, Computer Science or a closely related field, plus 5 years of professional business analysis experience.

Experience, which may have been gained concurrently, must be in business analysis and requirements definition for IT systems and include:

•        3 years of experience in Java.

•        3 years of experience in SQL and writing SQL queries in MS SQL server and Oracle.

•        2 years of experience writing BRDs and FRDs.

•        2 years of experience working with MS Project and MS Visio.

•        2 years of experience in data warehouse modeling and data mapping.

Candidates for consideration will be expected to have knowledge, skills and ability:

•        Sound knowledge of the accepted practices of the Business Analysis profession.

•        Sound knowledge of Agile project methodologies and Scrum.

•        Ability to facilitate requirements gathering meetings.

•        Sound knowledge of relational database design structure concepts and IT systems architecture patterns (e.g., tiers of an IT system, Services Oriented Architecture patterns, etc.).

•        Familiarity with User Experience concepts such as design for usability.

Salary range is $146,806 to $148,500 per year.

The position is remote and requires the ability to commute locally to perform work at client sites in the greater Boston metropolitan area up to 75%. Qualified candidates for consideration must also be willing to travel out of state up to 5%, as required.