Business Analyst

Job Description

Genesis Consulting has an immediate opportunity for an experienced, forward-thinking Business Analyst with a passion for growth and business transformation for a public sector client in Minnesota. Join our team and work on challenging, complex solutions that are driving innovation and technology advancement in the local community. Work with teams that are rapidly delivering value to their customers leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban, and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world’s leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Business Analyst will be the vital link between information technology capacities and business objectives. The successful candidate will support and ensure the successful completion of analytical, building, testing, and deployment tasks of the software products' features. Duties include but may not be limited to:

1. Collaborate with stakeholders to elicit requirements via interviews, document analyses, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, and various analysis techniques.
2. Craft detailed requirement specifications in standard templates, articulated clearly and concisely, ensuring the use of natural language and the representation of requirements through different views when necessary.
3. Break down high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements with an appropriate level of detail for implementation.
4. Identify current and future business processes, defining quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.
5. Lead the analysis and verification of requirements, assuring completeness, consistency, clarity, comprehension, traceability, feasibility, unambiguity, and conformance to standards.
6. Handle requirements prioritization and mediate the negotiation of requirements among multiple stakeholders.
7. Document business requirements and required data, delivering work products throughout the project life cycle.
8. Coordinate business validation processes to ensure that business processes function as intended.
9. Assist product managers or project sponsors in documenting the product's vision and project scope.
10. Contribute to peer reviews and inspections of requirement documents and derived work products to verify accurate interpretation of requirements.
11. Manage the traceability of requirements and monitor their status throughout the duration of the project.
12. Provide ongoing knowledge transfers to ensure continuity and understanding among stakeholders and team members.

Requirements:

1. Five (5) years of proven experience as a Business Analyst.
2. One (1) year of experience employing remote collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Teams, Skype, SharePoint, etc.
3. Demonstrated capability to manage multiple projects concurrently in a dynamic environment.
4. Comprehensive experience with all stages of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
5. Familiarity with various project methodologies, both Waterfall and Agile, and the ability to apply them as needed.
6. Strong analytical skills with the ability to create accurate and detailed functional requirements documents, including but not limited to user stories, diagrams, process flows, RACI charts, etc.
7. Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
8. Excellent interpersonal, collaborative, oral, and written communication skills.
9. Ability to write technical, business, and plain language documents and/or emails, with great attention to detail in all written communications.

Minimum Education:

1. Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related area. – Required

Required Certifications:

1. None Required

Other:

1. Local to Minnesota candidates preferred; Remote candidates will be considered.
2. US Citizens Preferred but Green Card candidates considered.