NRRM is hiring: Senior Business Analyst in Lakewood

American Auto Shield is seeking a Senior Business Analyst to join its growing IT team. This position defines technology solutions by working closely with stakeholders to understand the business strategy, processes, services, and roadmap. The Senior Business Analyst role will be responsible for documentation of functionality needed to address business challenges and lead the efforts to identify operational, financial, and technological risks. The Senior Business Analyst will be expected to participate in improving business processes and workflows through observation and evaluation.

Responsibilities for Senior Business Analyst:

• Provides leadership to team members and peers through collaboration and initiates cross-functional projects
• Participates in Agile ceremonies and maintaining Agile artifacts
• Communicates with developers, users, and stakeholders to gather thorough requirements, provide status updates, lead product design discussions, and any other pertinent notifications
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Works with stakeholders and project team to understand business value and priority of requested feature changes
• Participates in the QA of purchased and developed solutions to ensure features and functions have been implemented accurately
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.
• Communicates changes or modifications of business requirements to project teams so that risks and scope changes can be mitigated
• Creates and maintains updated documentation on solution functionality, data organization, and business reporting
• Other ad-hoc duties as assigned

Required Experience, Skills & Abilities for Senior Business Analyst:

• Eight to ten years related work experience
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, data modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Data Analysis and Visualization – SQL proficiency preferred
• Strong communication, interpersonal, organizational, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Creative and analytical thinker with strong problem-solving capabilities
• Technical proficiencies with the Microsoft Office Suite
• Bachelor’s degree required
• IIBA certifications preferred
• Agile Certified Product Owner preferred