Business Analyst Client: REI Location: Seattle, WA Duration: 12+ months Rate: Ma

Business Analyst Client: REI Location: Seattle, WA Duration: 12+ months Rate: Markets

Full-time

Job Description
ocals and prior experience in marketing groups preferred.

We are looking for a Senior IT Business Systems Analyst that enjoys the reward of delivering business value quickly while working on a team to execute technical solutions in an incremental nature. As a Senior BA you will work with a team of architects, software engineers, testers and business partners to design, develop and implement a large enterprise IT project. A successful candidate is passionate about ensuring business needs and requirements are understood, valued, prioritized and communicated to project team members and other stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
Requirements Management:

Identify and document a desired future state for our enterprise Customer Service Application.

Map “as is” and “to be” business processes and conceptual data; understand gaps and develop transition/mitigation plans.

Facilitate, document, validate and prioritize business requirements and establish baselines with testability and traceability of business value delivered.

Articulate specifications between business and technical teams and answer questions.

Manage changes to requirements baseline and maintain requirements for reuse.

Assess business value and impacts of various solution options.

Provide deployment and post-production support as needed.

Systems Knowledge, Design, & Architecture:

Understand business functionality, interfaces, data flow and functional architecture of the supported system.

Ensure solution designs meets business/user requirements.

Able to troubleshoot functional system problems, especially when supporting end-user testing and training.

Can explain solution features and their value and can route support requests to the appropriate team members for assistance.

Required Skills & Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business management or related field, or equivalent training

5+ years direct work experience on medium to large scale projects or programs

Demonstrated ability in facilitation, identification, validation, documentation and management of business requirements (use cases, data modeling, process modeling, context diagrams, systems diagrams, etc.)

Proficiency in creating business models (strategy, process, conceptual data, etc.)

Ability to conceptualize and recommend solutions to business problems

Executes effectively by using resources efficiently, meeting deadlines, and keeping others informed of work plans and progress toward goals

Bonus Points Skills & Experience

Previous experience in marketing retail environment, CRM and Loyalty technology, or a variety of marketing technology preferred.

Previous experience with Agile SDLC methodologies preferred.

Local candidate preferred or ability to relocate.

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