Offer summary

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree with 7+ years of experience in business analysis or related field., Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, both oral and written., Experience with Agile methodology, SDLC, and tools like Jira, Excel, and Lucidchart., Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage workload under tight deadlines..

Key responsabilities:

Work closely with clients and technical teams to analyze and document business requirements.

Develop and promote policies and standard operating procedures to improve organizational processes.

Create user stories, wireframes, and process maps to ensure clarity in project requirements.

Provide support in the design, development, and implementation of technical integration efforts and interoperability products.

Job description

Cognitive is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to work closely with development teams and stakeholders to ensure that the product meets the needs of our client. The Senior BA will be responsible for identifying client’s technical needs, planning enterprise architecture, and strategizing ideas to improve decision-making while working in an Agile environment. This person must have the ability to drive conversations and gain clarity and commitment from all stakeholders in challenging environments and large organizations, as well as have excellent organizational and communication skills.

Duties Include:

Works closely with the client and technical team to provide guidance and analysis experience, while incorporating the client’s baseline requirements and processes into scalable design specifications that satisfies business requirements and needs
Provides solutions to a variety of technical problems of moderate scope and complexity where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors
Develops, implements, and promotes policies and standard operating procedures
Improves the flow of information through the organization by using modeling, testing and data models
Provides input to project plans to achieve performance-based objectives, enhancing implementation, technical integration and interoperability products and services
Adheres to the Agile software development methodology:
- Work with the development team to document the processes involved in the software development life cycle
- Works with the development team to ensure that the product backlog is well-groomed and contains user stories ready for development.
- Works with the client and the Cognitive development team to build user stories ensuring the team has full understanding of requirements and business process
- Develops and designs user stories, wire frames, and process maps using tools such as Lucidchart and Visio
Works with all levels to provide input to reports and other deliverables, to execute multiple assignments, & meet agreed deadlines, and adjust to changing client demands
Provides integral support in mission requirements determination, conceptualization, design, development, testing, verification and validation, documentation, and implementation of technical integration efforts and interoperability products & services

Required Skills:

Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills (oral and written)
Self-starter with a positive attitude and very good interpersonal skills
Experience with Jira Scrum boards or Kanban (2-4 years)
Experience with and thorough understanding of Agile methodology and SDLC
Experience with Excel, SharePoint, Lucidchart (or Visio)
Experience with data collection and the design and creation of wireframes (2-4 years)
Experience with and ability to define and document software requirements
Ability to work/collaborate with a team
Strong work ethic, ability to self-manage workload & deliverables under tight deadlines

Required Education, Experience, and Clearance:

Bachelor’s Degree and 7+ years or more experience; additional years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree
Ability to obtain a Position of Public Trust – Medium Background Investigation (MBI)
US Citizenship required

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