DSD Laboratories
Business Systems Analyst Intermediate
DSD Laboratories, Crapo, Maryland, United States, 21626
Overall Role Statement:The Business Analyst will work remotely and closely with the Appian development team, playinga pivotal role in understanding and translating business needs into system requirements / userstories.
This role involves performing detailed business process analysis, ensuring that theAppian applications align with business objectives and requirements, and writing detailed userstories that can be developed against. The analyst will ensure that the solutions delivered alignwith the business objectives and provide value to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and capture businessneeds.• Analyze and translate business needs into detailed system requirements and functionalspecifications, working closely with the Appian development team to ensure theyunderstand and can meet these requirements.• Liaise with business stakeholders, development teams, and other relevant parties toensure clear communication and understanding of requirements.• Assist in identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement in the transition to Appiansolutions.• Collaborate with refactoring and modernization teams to ensure Appian applications areup to date and efficient.• Ensure information assurance and quality assurance in all Appian applications.• Work with Business Owners, Business Architect, and System Architects to ensureoptimization of enterprise solutions as part of the company's system architecture.• Capture / understand business objectives, measures and targets to provide traceability.• Ensure target solution aligns to and enables business objectives.• Understand business issues and challenges of the company's member organization andindustry.• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts,decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information toa general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs.• Elicit high/epic level and detailed requirements and translate into Jira user stories;methods of collection can include but are not limited to user interviews / surveys,analyzing documentation / business process workflows, existing system documentation.• Drive and challenge business areas on assumptions; question and understand how theywill successfully execute their plans related to the functionality requested.• Analyze current business environment to detect deficiencies - identify improvementopportunities.• Understand and apply high-level requirements and business processes.• Translate into epic user stories/functional workflows - define the 'what' and 'why/value'.• Conduct backlog refinement and sizing with agile scrum team(s).• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders toanalyze information needs and functional requirements.• Write and deliver functional/ detailed requirements and related workflows, use cases,Jira user stories, interface mock-ups/prototypes, screen designs and fielddefinitions/rules.• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical visionand analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations.• Document and deliver training as needed.• Participate in agile scrum team ceremonies; facilitate backlog refinement, facilitatesprint planning, attend daily standups, participate in sprint retrospective, receive sprintdemos of working software.• Liaison / conduit between the business (internal and external), technical organization,PMO, and operational areas. Obtain stakeholder buy-in and support for responsibleinitiatives.• Facilitate agile scrum team, product, and/or member meetings when needed.• Liaison to QA testers; review test plans/cases/scenarios and swarm on sprint testingactivities when necessary.• Design and manage user acceptance testing.• Communicate and apply agile scrum methodologies; recommend and implementimprovements in an iterative fashion.• Serves as a primary resource to less experienced team members on complex orescalated issues.• Review and provide input on peer [senior] business analysts' work product to improvestory quality.
Competencies:• Strong knowledge of business process analysis, application development, and systemadministration.• Familiarity with Appian or similar BPM platforms and understanding of Agilemethodologies.• Understanding of legacy systems such as SAMIS and CMCS- - NATURAL, COBOL,ADABAS, FOCUS.• Experience with refactoring and modernization efforts.• Ability to work in a cross-functional team.• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.• Excellent communication skills.• Ability to navigate BA Workflow, Agile Scrum, and Project Management tools (Jira, MSProject, Visio, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Business Process / Rules repositories).• Proven understanding and application of Waterfall, Agile Scrum, and Kanban softwaredevelopment methodologies.• Proficiency with user interface design.• Agile BA / Scrum Master certification is strongly preferred.Relationships:Reports to the Modernization Lead.Job Requirements:• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector roles must be a U.S. citizen• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.• Minimum 5 years consulting and/or directly relevant industry experience.• Experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on working withdevelopment teams on refactoring and modernization efforts.
Work Environment:This is a remote role with a preference for candidates based in Dayton, OH or the DC area.Occasional travel may be required for team meetings and training. The role requirescollaboration with teams across different departments and locations.
DSD Laboratories Inc. is an EEO employer - M/F/Vets/Disabled
This role involves performing detailed business process analysis, ensuring that theAppian applications align with business objectives and requirements, and writing detailed userstories that can be developed against. The analyst will ensure that the solutions delivered alignwith the business objectives and provide value to stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather requirements and capture businessneeds.• Analyze and translate business needs into detailed system requirements and functionalspecifications, working closely with the Appian development team to ensure theyunderstand and can meet these requirements.• Liaise with business stakeholders, development teams, and other relevant parties toensure clear communication and understanding of requirements.• Assist in identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement in the transition to Appiansolutions.• Collaborate with refactoring and modernization teams to ensure Appian applications areup to date and efficient.• Ensure information assurance and quality assurance in all Appian applications.• Work with Business Owners, Business Architect, and System Architects to ensureoptimization of enterprise solutions as part of the company's system architecture.• Capture / understand business objectives, measures and targets to provide traceability.• Ensure target solution aligns to and enables business objectives.• Understand business issues and challenges of the company's member organization andindustry.• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts,decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information toa general understanding, and distinguish user requests from underlying needs.• Elicit high/epic level and detailed requirements and translate into Jira user stories;methods of collection can include but are not limited to user interviews / surveys,analyzing documentation / business process workflows, existing system documentation.• Drive and challenge business areas on assumptions; question and understand how theywill successfully execute their plans related to the functionality requested.• Analyze current business environment to detect deficiencies - identify improvementopportunities.• Understand and apply high-level requirements and business processes.• Translate into epic user stories/functional workflows - define the 'what' and 'why/value'.• Conduct backlog refinement and sizing with agile scrum team(s).• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders toanalyze information needs and functional requirements.• Write and deliver functional/ detailed requirements and related workflows, use cases,Jira user stories, interface mock-ups/prototypes, screen designs and fielddefinitions/rules.• Collaborate with developers and subject matter experts to establish the technical visionand analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.• Deliver informative, well-organized presentations.• Document and deliver training as needed.• Participate in agile scrum team ceremonies; facilitate backlog refinement, facilitatesprint planning, attend daily standups, participate in sprint retrospective, receive sprintdemos of working software.• Liaison / conduit between the business (internal and external), technical organization,PMO, and operational areas. Obtain stakeholder buy-in and support for responsibleinitiatives.• Facilitate agile scrum team, product, and/or member meetings when needed.• Liaison to QA testers; review test plans/cases/scenarios and swarm on sprint testingactivities when necessary.• Design and manage user acceptance testing.• Communicate and apply agile scrum methodologies; recommend and implementimprovements in an iterative fashion.• Serves as a primary resource to less experienced team members on complex orescalated issues.• Review and provide input on peer [senior] business analysts' work product to improvestory quality.
Competencies:• Strong knowledge of business process analysis, application development, and systemadministration.• Familiarity with Appian or similar BPM platforms and understanding of Agilemethodologies.• Understanding of legacy systems such as SAMIS and CMCS- - NATURAL, COBOL,ADABAS, FOCUS.• Experience with refactoring and modernization efforts.• Ability to work in a cross-functional team.• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.• Excellent communication skills.• Ability to navigate BA Workflow, Agile Scrum, and Project Management tools (Jira, MSProject, Visio, Word, Excel, SharePoint, and Business Process / Rules repositories).• Proven understanding and application of Waterfall, Agile Scrum, and Kanban softwaredevelopment methodologies.• Proficiency with user interface design.• Agile BA / Scrum Master certification is strongly preferred.Relationships:Reports to the Modernization Lead.Job Requirements:• US Citizenship - candidates being considered for a Public Sector roles must be a U.S. citizen• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.• Minimum 5 years consulting and/or directly relevant industry experience.• Experience working as a Business Systems Analyst, with a focus on working withdevelopment teams on refactoring and modernization efforts.
Work Environment:This is a remote role with a preference for candidates based in Dayton, OH or the DC area.Occasional travel may be required for team meetings and training. The role requirescollaboration with teams across different departments and locations.
DSD Laboratories Inc. is an EEO employer - M/F/Vets/Disabled