Business Analyst (hybrid-remote)

Job Duties and Responsibilities: The main responsibilities are:

• Responsible for documenting business requirements that are clear, unambiguous, testable, and satisfy the business need in accordance with standard templates and adherence to policies, standards, and guidelines.
• Responsible for facilitating requirement gathering meetings to identify impacted business processes and document the project business requirements.
• Attendees include relevant project team members and stakeholders as identified in the Communication Plan.
• Responsible for adhering to the project schedule by developing and maintaining the project backlog during Agile projects and working with the product owner to set priorities throughout the duration of project.
• Responsible for understanding project scope and actively monitoring requirements process to maintain adherence to the objectives set for the project.
• Responsible for understanding high-level information governance objectives and ensuring appropriate Stakeholder inclusion and/or awareness regarding data requirements.
• Responsible for appropriate resolution of critical IT issues as it pertains to the BA role.
• Responsible for providing information and analysis for Build vs. Buy project decisions.
• Responsible for understanding project specific benefits and related impact of changes to project scope or business requirements.
• Ensures SEM deliverables for the project that are a responsibility of the BA are completed, reviewed, and approved in alignment with area processes.
• Works directly with project team including user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designers, tech leads, solution architects, database administrators, developers, QA testers, and technical writers to ensure understanding of the requirements, functionality, size, and scalability of the IT solution.
  

Experience, Skills, Knowledge: Top Skills

• Experience writing EPICS, Features, and User Stories.
• Proficient in using an Agile Tool to document EPICS, Features, and User Stories (DevOps, Team Foundation Server, Jira, etc.)
• Proficient in using Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Word, etc.)
• Proficient working in an Agile environment.
• Proficient in documenting As-is and To-Be Process Flows.
• Proficient performing analysis and gathering and documenting detailed requirements with customers.

Location: Local Lansing MI area candidates only. Will need to be onsite starting day one for hybrid work schedule.