Senior IT Business Analyst
TheCorporate, Oakland, CA, United States
Job Title:
IT- Business Analyst - Senior
Location:
Oakland, CA
Contract Position
Roles:
to support the new business interconnection program
Top Things
Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
SAP Work and Asset Management focusing on Electric Distribution, Transmission, Substation
Good to have: Joint Pole experience; portal displaying assets for utilities (JUMP)
+5 to 10 years of BA experience with gathering requirements, previous utility experience and project implementation
Responsibilities The Senior Business Analyst acts as the business expert filling a liaison role between the IT development group and business units for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems. Additionally, this position provides data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.
Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more medium to large complex IT Business Technology projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved.
Works with stakeholders and project team to elicit, analyze, validate and prioritize the business needs/requirements
Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project‑by‑project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features/functions have been enabled and optimized
Participates in the selection of any software solutions that the organization may opt to use
Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders
Manages, enforce and redefine (as necessary) the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle
Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
Participates in the testing effort throughout the project lifecycle, including test script creation
Minimum Qualifications
BA/BS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience
Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages for applications and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.
Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
Proven experience with business IT applications
Ability to lead and influence decision‑making working with senior management
Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem‑solving skills
Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
Highly self‑motivated and directed
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
Strong customer service orientation
Experience working in a team‑oriented, collaborative environment
Experience with MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
Working knowledge of SQL
Desired Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration
Experience working with Electric Generation Interconnection program
Experience working with Electric Distribution/Transmission/Substation work and asset management processes
Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on significant technology solutions/business process improvements from concept to implementation
Skills:
scrum, egi, agile, interconnection, customer, business requirements, project, liaison, it, management, customer requirements, waterfall, asset management, specifications, sql, jump
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IT- Business Analyst - Senior
Location:
Oakland, CA
Contract Position
Roles:
to support the new business interconnection program
Top Things
Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
SAP Work and Asset Management focusing on Electric Distribution, Transmission, Substation
Good to have: Joint Pole experience; portal displaying assets for utilities (JUMP)
+5 to 10 years of BA experience with gathering requirements, previous utility experience and project implementation
Responsibilities The Senior Business Analyst acts as the business expert filling a liaison role between the IT development group and business units for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems. Additionally, this position provides data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.
Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more medium to large complex IT Business Technology projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved.
Works with stakeholders and project team to elicit, analyze, validate and prioritize the business needs/requirements
Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project‑by‑project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features/functions have been enabled and optimized
Participates in the selection of any software solutions that the organization may opt to use
Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders
Manages, enforce and redefine (as necessary) the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle
Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
Participates in the testing effort throughout the project lifecycle, including test script creation
Minimum Qualifications
BA/BS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience
Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages for applications and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.
Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology
Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
Proven experience with business IT applications
Ability to lead and influence decision‑making working with senior management
Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem‑solving skills
Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
Highly self‑motivated and directed
Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
Strong customer service orientation
Experience working in a team‑oriented, collaborative environment
Experience with MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
Working knowledge of SQL
Desired Qualifications
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration
Experience working with Electric Generation Interconnection program
Experience working with Electric Distribution/Transmission/Substation work and asset management processes
Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on significant technology solutions/business process improvements from concept to implementation
Skills:
scrum, egi, agile, interconnection, customer, business requirements, project, liaison, it, management, customer requirements, waterfall, asset management, specifications, sql, jump
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