Remote Business Analyst

Summary

Join our team as a Business Analyst to work remotely and collaborate closely with the Appian development team, translating business needs into system requirements and user stories.

Requirements

• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector role must be a U.S. citizen
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Information Systems, or a related field
• Minimum 5 years consulting and/or directly relevant industry experience
• Experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on working with development teams on refactoring and modernization efforts

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and capture business needs
• Analyze and translate business needs into detailed system requirements and functional specifications, working closely with the Appian development team to ensure they understand and can meet these requirements
• Liaise with business stakeholders, development teams, and other relevant parties to ensure clear communication and understanding of requirements
• Assist in identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement in the transition to Appian solutions
• Collaborate with refactoring and modernization teams to ensure Appian applications are up to date and efficient
• Ensure information assurance and quality assurance in all Appian applications
• Work with Business Owners, Business Architect, and System Architects to ensure optimization of enterprise solutions as part of the company's system architecture
• Capture / understand business objectives, measures and targets to provide traceability
• Ensure target solution aligns to and enables business objectives
• Understand business issues and challenges of the company's member organization and industry
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs
• Elicit high/epic level and detailed requirements and translate into Jira user stories; methods of collection can include but are not limited to user interviews / surveys, analyzing documentation / business process workflows, existing system documentation
• Drive and challenge business areas on assumptions; question and understand how they will successfully execute their plans related to the functionality requested
• Analyze current business environment to detect deficiencies - identify improvement opportunities
• Understand and apply high-level requirements and business processes
• Translate into epic user stories/functional workflows – define the ‘what’ and ‘why/value’
• Conduct backlog refinement and sizing with agile scrum team(s)
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to analyze information needs and functional requirements
• Write and deliver functional/detailed requirements and related workflows, use cases, Jira user stories, interface mock-ups/prototypes, screen designs and field definitions/rules
• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs
• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations
• Document and deliver training as needed
• Participate in agile scrum team ceremonies; facilitate backlog refinement, facilitate sprint planning, attend daily standups, participate in sprint retrospective, receive sprint demos of working software
• Liaison/conduit between the business (internal and external), technical organization, PMO, and operational areas. Obtain stakeholder buy-in and support for responsible initiatives
• Facilitate agile scrum team, product, and/or member meetings when needed
• Liaison to QA testers; review test plans/cases/scenarios and swarm on sprint testing activities when necessary
• Design and manage user acceptance testing
• Communicate and apply agile scrum methodologies; recommend and implement improvements in an iterative fashion
• Serves as a primary resource to less experienced team members on complex or escalated issues
• Review and provide input on peer [senior] business analysts’ work product to improve story quality