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Crescens, Inc.

Agile Business Analyst Job at Crescens, Inc. in Richmond

Crescens, Inc., Richmond, VA, United States


Job Title: Agile Business Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA(Hybrid)
Duration: 12+ month
Type: Contract

Responsibilities:
  • Work with the Project team members and business stakeholders to understand business processes and pain points
  • Develop expertise in source system datasets and data lifecycle
  • Profile source data which may contain a spatial component; review source data and compare content and structure to dataset requirements; identify conflicts and determine recommendations for resolution
  • Conduct entity resolution to identify matching and merging and semantic conflicts
  • Elicit, record, and manage metadata
  • Diagram current processes and proposed modifications using process flows, context diagrams and data flow diagrams
  • Client and document requirements and user stories with a focus on improving both business and technical processing
  • Decompose requirements into Epics and Features and create clear and concise user stories that are easy to understand and implement by technical staff
  • Utilize progressive elaboration; map stories to data models and architectures to be used by internal staff to facilitate master data management
  • Identify and group related user stories into themes, document dependencies and associated business processes
  • Assist Product Owner in maintaining the product backlog
  • Create conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
  • Collaborate with staff, vendors, consultants, and contractors as they are engaged on tasks to formulate, detail and test potential and implemented solutions
  • Perform Quality Analyst functions such as defining test objectives, test plans and test cases, and executing test cases
  • Coordinate and Facilitate User Acceptance Testing with Business and ensure Project Managers/Scrum Masters are informed of the progress
Qualifications Required:
  • The candidate must have a minimum of 10 years of experience delivering business data analysis artifacts
  • 5+ years of experience as an Agile Business Analyst;
  • Strong understanding of Scrum concepts and methodology
  • Experience organizing and maintaining Product and Sprint backlogs
  • Experience translating client and product strategy requirements into dataset requirements and user stories
  • Proficient with defining acceptance criteria and managing acceptance process
  • Exceptional experience writing complex sql queries for Sql Server and Oracle
  • Experience with Azure Databricks
  • Experience with ESRI ArcGIS Experience with enterprise data management
  • Expertise with Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook, Visio, PowerPoint, Project Server)
  • Experience with reporting systems - operational data stores, data warehouses, data lakes, data marts
  • The candidate must have exceptional written and oral communications skills and have the proven ability to work well with a diverse set of peers and customers
Preferred:
  • Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and/or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) Certification
  • Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)