Immediate Need for Sr IT Business Analyst @ Waltham, MA

Immediate Need for Sr IT Business Analyst @ Waltham, MA

• Contract

Job title: Senior IT Business Analyst

Location: Waltham, MA

Duration: Long Term

Experience: 5-7 Years

The primary role of the Senior Business Analyst is to act as the liaison between the business and IS organization to provide business-critical or complex solutions that meet user needs and improve business performance. This involves providing the analysis of business requirements, problem-solving, and troubleshooting as part of a project delivery team. The Senior Business Analyst is accountable for ensuring that clear, concise requirements (business and technical) have been captured. Responsibilities include driving or participating in testing, driving issue resolution, deviations, and supporting the production implementation process. Additionally, the role involves developing procedural documentation.

Skills:

1. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar field; or equivalent work experience.
2. 5-7 years of relevant experience as a Senior Business Analyst.
3. 5+ years of demonstrated experience in business and functional requirements elicitation, translation, and documentation.
4. 5+ years’ experience in facilitating design and use case discussions.
5. 5+ years’ experience in a SDLC environment.
6. Expert level analysis skills including the ability to identify patterns, potential issues, and translate those into functional and test requirements.
7. Expert level understanding of business functional areas and management issues as well as the IT organization's systems and capabilities.
8. Ability to influence and build relationships and demonstrate team leadership in all interactions.
9. Knowledge of and ability to effectively use appropriate modeling methodologies and toolsets, requirements management methodologies and toolsets, requirements visualization methods and toolsets, and artifact versioning tools.
10. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Communicates effectively with business clients to identify needs and evaluate alternative business solutions.
11. Proven track record with planning, estimating, and organizing effort for the WBS.
12. Extensive experience in MS Office and Visio.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. 3+ years’ experience in working in the Utility (Gas/Electric) domain within a project setting.
2. Working toward relevant industry certification (e.g., CEng, CITP, TOGAF, IIBA, ISEB diploma) desirable but not essential as part of career progression.