Information Technology Business Analyst

Job Title: - IT Business Analyst

Location: - Oakland CA 94612 (Hybrid)

Duration: - 6+ months with possible extension

Roles: to support the new business interconnection program

TOP THINGS:

• Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
• utilities similar to ***
• SAP Work and Asset Management focusing on Electric Distribution, Transmission, Substation
• Good to have: Joint Pole experience; portal displaying assets for utilities (JUMP)
• +5 to 10 years of BA experience with gathering requirements, previous utility experience and project implementation

Responsibilities:

The Senior Business Analyst acts as the business expert filling a liaison role between the IT development group and business units for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems. Additionally, this position provides data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.

Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more medium to large complex IT Business Technology projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved. Specific responsibilities include:

Works with stakeholders and project team to elicit, analyze, validate and prioritize the business needs/requirements

Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods

Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics

Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards

Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features/functions have been enabled and optimized

Participates in the selection of any software solutions that the organization may opt to use

Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications

Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team

Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team

Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted

Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders

Manages, enforce and redefine (as necessary) the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle

Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood

Participates in the testing effort throughout the project lifecycle, including test script creation

Minimum Qualifications:

BA/BS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience

Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages used for *** applications and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.

7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.

Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology

Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development

Proven experience with business IT applications

Ability to lead and influence decision-making working with senior management at ***

Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it

Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills

Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills

Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail

Highly self-motivated and directed

Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure

Strong customer service orientation

Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment

Experience with MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint

Working knowledge of SQL

Desired:

Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration

Experience working with Electric Generation Interconnection program

Experience working with Electric Distribution/Transmission/Substation work and asset management processes

Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on significant technology solutions/business process improvements from concept to implementation.