Senior Business Analyst

Summary: The Senior Business Analyst role requires a minimum of 15 years of experience in business process improvement and project management. The position involves coordinating user requirements, analyzing program policies, and leading process change requests to enhance business efficiency. The candidate will also manage stakeholder relationships and ensure successful project delivery while collaborating with technical teams and vendors. This role is primarily remote or hybrid based in Austin, Texas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify opportunities for improving business processes to be more efficient or effective and assist in the business case vetting and preparation of proposals for information management efforts.
• Coordinate the analysis of program policies and procedures to determine their effect on automated systems and system functional areas.
• Focus on business value to develop ideas, including awareness of industry trends, risk assessments, business continuity, and business capability requirements.
• Coordinate and/or analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems; and coordinate and/or analyze computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations.
• Coordinate the service request life cycle through customer-related service request responses, business requirements coordination, technical specifications and related artifacts review, and monitors system integration and user acceptance testing prior to implementation.
• Coordinate with outside vendors and contractors to complete projects and service requests; and defines, may assign, and evaluate their work.
• Identify potential project risks and difficulties, and designs strategies to mitigate or avoid them.
• Review complex project deliverables such as design documentation, test plans, and risk assessment plans, and provides comments and suggestions to document owners.
• Leads and coordinates process change requests and manage a project’s scope, acceptance, installation, and deployment.
• Correlate business value and priorities to planning activities and goal-setting.

Key Skills:

• Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with major course work in management information systems or business administration.
• 8 years - Experience planning, eliciting, analyzing, and managing business requirements and monitoring throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• 8 years - Experience leading simple and complex business process reengineering and transformation efforts that deliver efficiency improvements in quality and customer experience.
• 8 years - Experience performing a business relationship manager (liaison) role between functional and technical teams.
• 8 years - Experience leading project teams and/or operational and strategic organizational efforts that involved managing changes and stakeholder relationships, tracking and communicating performance, ensuring resource availability and allocation, coordinating third parties/vendors and delegating tasks.
• 8 years - Experience with projects addressing some of the following fields: data management, data quality, data warehousing, data modeling, data migration and integration, secure file transfers, enterprise system analysis, enterprise architecture, information security principles.
• 8 years - Experience working in a scrum master role or in an agile scrum environment.
• 8 years - Strong SQL skills, ability to write and execute advanced SQL in both Oracle and SQL Server.
• 8 years - Experience in a wide range of business environments including business consulting.
• 8 years - Experience with a variety of system implementations and enhancements supporting business areas related to: building operations, finance, benefits processing, procurement, contracts, legal, audit, human resources, vendor relations, project management, communications.
• 8 years - Technical expertise and experience in business systems analysis, system configuration, information security, and internal control frameworks.
• 8 years - Technical expertise and experience with reporting databases, database design development, data modeling, mapping.
• 8 years - Technical expertise and experience conducting enterprise business analysis such as problem/opportunity analysis, business case and business architecture development, feasibility studies and comprehensive risk assessments supporting value-based decision-making.
• 8 years - Experience working on prior implementations/conversions from a legacy PeopleSoft application.
• 8 years - Experience documenting and implementing procedures and PeopleSoft applications.
• 8 years - Functional experiences in one or more PeopleSoft module HRMS, Base Benefits, Benefits Administration, Payroll, or Pension.
• 4 years - Experience with MS Azure DevOps for requirements management, and project implementation.
• 4 years - Experience with project management software.
• Masters of Business of Administration (MBA), CCBA, CBAP, CSM, CSPO, PMI-PBA, PMP, ITIL, ICGB, or related.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: Austin

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: Other