orangepeople | Senior IT Business Analyst | orlando, fl

Are you a Business Analyst passionate about driving strategic decision-making and optimizing business processes? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Senior Business Analyst. We are looking for a Sr. Business Analyst who has experience in governing and provisioning Software Asset Management requests. At OrangePeople we consult for some of the most prestigious brands in the world. But more importantly, our consultants have a voice in the vision and future of the company. At OrangePeople, our focus is people. It’s right there in our name.

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for engaging with the business on behalf of the IT project team and providing technical guidance and oversight.
• Works to understand complex business needs and define technology and service requirements to maximize delivery of business value.
• Translates business needs into requirements that IT can use to design and develop solutions. The Senior BA ensures the required outcomes are built, tested, and delivered.
• The Senior Business Analyst is also responsible for coaching and guiding other Business Analysts in business requirements gathering, as well as developing best practices in business analysis.

Basic Qualifications:

• Provides some technical guidance and oversight.
• Leads in moderately complex analysis, providing guidance and oversight.
• Supports the development of business analysis best practices for the organization.
• Mentors team members on best practices and standards.
• Recommends improvements to processes and technology that improve the team's effectiveness.
• Supports pre-project business problem elicitation, feasibility, and business case definition.
• Works with the business to determine the real issue that needs to be solved or the opportunity to do things differently.
• Develops moderately complex business cases, ensuring benefits align with strategic and tactical business objectives.
• Supports the business in business, technical, and financial feasibility assessments.
• Monitors emerging trends and identifies those that will be useful to both the business and IT in the delivery of the projects.
• 3. Gathers business requirements.
• Works with the business to capture and document requirements (both functional and non-functional) using a range of techniques such as workshop facilitation, document analysis, site visits, use cases, scenario modeling, and task, and workflow analysis.
• Ensures business requirements are concise, complete, specific, and unambiguous and that they are aligned to the strategic and tactical goals of the project and the business.
• Combines all business requirements into a clear, managed, prioritized backlog (agile) or business requirements document (waterfall) for projects of moderate complexity.
• Refines these business requirements to a sufficient level of detail to allow Architects and Software Engineers to design and implement appropriate solutions.
• Provides refined requirements into project iterations in time to allow design/delivery to commence.
• Manages the scope and traceability of requirements throughout the project lifecycle, ensuring that they are understood by the project team and met by the delivered solution.
• Performs process modeling.
• Discovers and documents the as-is process by applying various process modeling techniques.
• Identifies high-level solution options for the business and presents these to stakeholders for review.
• Designs and models the to-be process, performing gap analysis and identifying areas for improvement.
• Works with the Business Architect, ensuring business processes are aligned with the business and IT architecture.
• Reviews, and signs off on solution designs, ensuring business requirements are verified, validated, and delivered.
• Ensures requirements traceability through testing.
• Works with the QA team to provide business input into test strategy, test plans, test conditions, and UAT plans.
• Coordinates UAT with the business.
• Reviews and signs off on test scripts to ensure requirements are fully tested and met by the delivered solution.
• Provide business change management support.
• Ensures the benefits, impact, and release of all changes are tracked managed, and communicated to relevant stakeholders.
• Ensures end users and IT support teams are fully trained to use, support, and maintain the application/solution.
• Shapes the business customer experience through business engagement and stakeholder management activities, including change and support activities.
• Provides project management support.
• Provides subject matter expertise on the business unit and associated processes and systems to all relevant team members.
• Assists the Project Manager in identifying and managing risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Assists the team in resolving any questions related to requirements or processes.
• Delivers the required documentation during each stage of the project.
• Supports the third-party/hardware/software selection process by providing input into the RFI and RFP and assisting in the assessment of responses against requirements.
• Supports the review of contracts drawn up with any third-party suppliers to ensure that they accurately reflect and meet the needs of the business.
• Supports the Project Manager in post-implementation reviews and incorporates lessons learned into future work.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four-year degree in a field such as Information Technology, Business, or similar field or related work experience.
• Experience (5+ years) as a Business Analyst across several projects.
• Experience in business analysis techniques, such as information-gathering methods, requirements documentation, process modeling, and process mapping.
• Strong understanding of all stages in a project lifecycle and delivery approaches, e.g. waterfall, agile, etc.

Required Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Benefits:

• 401(k).
• Dental Insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity, equality, inclusion, and respect for people.
• The salary will be determined based on several factors including, but not limited to, location, relevant education, qualifications, experience, technical skills, and business needs.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Participate in OrangePeople monthly team meetings, and participate in team-building efforts.
• Contribute to OrangePeople technical discussions, peer reviews, etc.
• Contribute content and collaborate via the OP-Wiki/Knowledge Base.
• Provide status reports to OP Account Management as requested.

About us:

OrangePeople is an Enterprise Architecture and Project Management solutions company. Our most valuable asset is our people: dynamic, creative thinkers, who are passionate about doing quality work. As a member of the OrangePeople team, you will have access to industry-leading consulting practices, strategies & and technologies, innovative training & and education. An ideal Orange Person is a technology leader with a proven track record of technical achievements and a strong process/methodology orientation.