Senior Business Analyst - Pursuit Software

Job Role: Senior Business Analyst
Location: Boca Raton, FL (Fully Onsite), minimum travel is required

Responsibilities:

Work with technology teams, business teams, vendors, and subject matter experts to perform daily activities and serve as a conduit between them through triage, research, requirements, testing, and support.
Serve as a business advisor to support the Product Owner and organize the Product Backlog based on the prioritization provided by the Product Owner.
Be accountable for managing and delivering support requests, enhancements, and projects for assigned Business Unit / Products. This includes the planning, troubleshooting, facilitation of problem solving, and conveying a variety of requests, incidents, and problems independently within multiple areas.
Building User Stories according to the requirements and making sure that they meet the acceptance criteria.
Partner with external and internal customers and vendors to analyze business needs and work with teams on solutions.
Elicit, understand, interpret, and represent functional and nonfunctional requirements to include business and stakeholder requirements, data and information requirements, data integration, metadata, data quality, service levels and performance.
Plan and facilitate requirement gathering workshops using a variety of techniques such as Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions, interviewing, brainstorming, job shadowing, user stories.
Creating and facilitating testing strategy, test plans and test scripts.
Analyze, categorize, document, and validate requirements to the appropriate level of granularity so that technical teams can translate to system design.
Work with quality assurance and business teams in defining the QA (Quality Assurance) strategy, test plans and use cases for QA activities.
Anticipate and understand the impact of changes in business objectives and its effect on project scope and the downstream impact.

Must have:

Bachelor's degree in IT or related
At least 5 years of work experience as a business analyst with working knowledge of multiple areas of Business Analysis (concepts, principles, and practices).
Flexibility to participate in a rotating on-call schedule providing support after hours (including nights), weekends and holidays.
Understanding of software development lifecycle and models/methodologies.
Prior experience in an Agile environment is required.
Analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, leveraging both logic and creativity to interpret complex concepts and information.
Ability to adjust approach to meet all types of customer communication styles, preferences, and management levels.
Proficiency in translating technical verbiage and complex processes into business-friendly terms.
Must have clear interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
Demonstrate ability to quickly build relationships within and between individuals and cross- functional teams and respond to customers in a compassionate manner.
Be a self-starter, highly flexible and adaptable.
Must be Highly organized with good time management and follow-up skills.
Strong Facilitation and meeting management skills.
Must have willingness to learn and proactively accept and manage change to accomplish positive outcomes.
Must be local or relocate to client location before start date on own cost.

Good to have:

Knowledge of SQL.
Experience on projects involving data analysis, data mapping, data integration and/or data warehousing.
Knowledge of data profiling, cleansing and data conversion processes, techniques and/or tools.
Understanding of data management principles, data modelling concepts and techniques.
CBAP (Certified Business Analysis Professional) and/or CDMP or CBIP certification(s).