Business Analyst (student information system)
Posted 1 day ago by NovaLink Solutions
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: This role seeks a qualified Technical Business Analyst to lead the documentation and analysis of business requirements for a student information system. The candidate will collaborate with stakeholders and development teams to ensure effective communication of requirements and deliver high-quality documentation. A strong understanding of software development processes and technical writing is essential for success in this position. The role is fully remote, allowing for flexibility in work arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, and solutions for stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
- Understand the documentation development process, the software development process, and product lifecycles
- Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats
- Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
- Partner with team members and stakeholders across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation
- Communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience
- Apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices, and procedures of technical writing
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams; study system capabilities; write specifications
- Translate stakeholder requests into formal requirements
- Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guides, and system guides
Key Skills:
- Bachelor's degree
- 7 years of experience in a similar role
- Effective verbal and written communication skills with stakeholders and development teams
- Collaboration with Project Manager, Architect, and developers
- Ability to translate and simplify requirements into written documents
- Experience creating diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows
- Experience managing test cases for Quality Assurance
- Familiarity with software and database development concepts
- Experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software
- Strong experience in requirements management and creating various documentation
- Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
- Strong experience in user acceptance testing
- Ability to analyze business functions
- Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft applications, including Visio
- Extensive experience with data visualization
- Excellent communication skills
- Experience with Scrum and Agile methodologies
Salary (Rate): £56,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Detailed Description From Employer:
Job Description:
This position will require a qualified Technical Business Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks:
- Ability to create and document detailed business requirements, perform analysis, outlining problems, opportunities and solutions for the stakeholders
- Author and update internal and external documentation, and formally initiate and deliver requirements and documentation
- A strong understanding of the documentation development process, the software development process, and product lifecycles
- Determine operational objectives by studying and documenting business functions; gathering information; evaluating output and formats
- Improve systems by studying and documenting current state and business rules
- Ability to partner with other team members and stakeholder across multiple business units to develop necessary analysis and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with executive teams
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience and business information to a technical audience
- Ability to successfully apply complex knowledge of fundamental concepts practices, and procedures of technical writing.
- Construct workflow charts and diagrams; studying system capabilities; writing specifications
- Translating stakeholder requests into formal requirements
- Deliver high-quality business requirement documentation for business manuals, new development, training manuals, user guide, and system guide
Required Degree:
- Bachelor s degree
Required skills/experience: ( 7 years)
- Must be able to effectively communicate (verbal and written) requirements with stakeholders as well as development team
- Must be able to collaborate with Project Manager, Architect, and developers to ensure business requirements are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations
- Must be able to translate and simplify requirements from stakeholders into written requirement documents for development team. Documents include: Formal Business Requirements Document, Functional Design Document, Technical Design Document, Technical Use Cases, User stories, Business Cases, Requirements Traceability Matrix, Test cases.
- Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of business processes
- Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through system
- Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.
- Must be familiar with software and database development concepts
- Technical Business Analyst work on a software development team
- Must have experience developing technical documentation for enterprise software users, system administrators, and other technical audiences
- Strong experience in requirements management and creating all documents listed above
- Strong experience in mapping business processes into technical documentation
- Strong experience in user acceptance testing
- Ability to analyze business functions
- Practical experience generating process documentation and reports
- Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio
- Extensive experience with data visualization
- Excellent communication with the ability to translate data into actionable insights
- Scrum
- Agile
Preference given to candidates with the below skills/experience.
- MS Visio or similar product
- Database Entity Design
- Figma
- Education data systems
- SQL
- Common Education Data Standards
- Scrum / Agile
- SDLC