Business Analyst

Summary

Join our team as a Business Analyst and play a key role in analyzing and documenting current and future business functions and requirements using Agile methodologies. Collaborate with management and personnel to define business needs and objectives. Analyze the integration of business functions with technology and support project design and implementation. You will identify and document business processes, build and manage the product backlog, and create user stories. Active participation in team meetings and design sessions is expected. This is a remote position located in Baton Rouge, LA with a duration of up to 5 years.

Requirements

• Three (3) years of experience in Business Analysis including eliciting, analyzing, and documenting business functions, processes, and requirements
• Two (2) years of experience in Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, etc.), writing user stories, and maintaining a healthy product backlog
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience creating requirements documentation for complex projects

Responsibilities

• Using Agile methods to analyze and document current and future state business functions and requirements
• Consult with management and personnel to identify, define and document business functions, needs and objectives, operational procedures, problems, input and output requirements
• Analyze the integration of business functions with technology
• Perform and/or facilitate business and technical analysis in support of project design and implementation
• Identify and document relevant business processes contained in legacy application data systems
• Build out and support the management and prioritization of the product backlog
• Create user stories based on requirements and capture technical requirements as needed
• Participates in all necessary team meetings and design sessions in accordance with Scrum ceremonies

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with communication management of multiple stakeholder groups
• Experience balancing and prioritizing stakeholder needs and requirements
• Experience eliciting stakeholder feedback from user interface prototypes
• Experience with proposing viable alternative solutions for future state features
• Experience prioritizing user stories
• Experience identifying and documenting business processes contained in legacy application data systems
• Business Analysis certifications such as PMI-PBA or CBAP
• Experience in creating operating procedures, user guides, and/or training material