IT- Business Analyst - Senior

Job Title: IT- Business Analyst - Senior

Job ID: 25-06862

Location: Oakland, CA

Duration: 12 months on W2 contract

Description:

***OPEN TO LOCAL AND NON LOCAL CANDIDATES*** The role is Hybrid, with onsite as needed.

***OPEN TO NON -LOCALS BUT HM PREFERS LOCAL *** Non-locals must be willing and committed to work PST hours.

**Client laptop will be provided to local or located within client's service territory. If outside the Client territory and/or out of state, vendor should provide the equipment or worker's personal.

TOP THINGS:

• Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
• utilities similar to Client
• SAP Work and Asset Management focusing on Electric Distribution, Transmission, Substation
• Good to have: Power gen exp (MSP note: assets for Power Generation, could be hydro, electric, etc.)
• Good to have: SAP Module: Field Service Management - Very good to have

Responsibilities:

Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more medium to large complex IT Business Technology projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved. Specific responsibilities include:

• Works with stakeholders and project team to elicit, analyze, validate and prioritize the business needs/requirements
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features/functions have been enabled and optimized
• Participates in the selection of any software solutions that the organization may opt to use
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders
• Manages, enforce and redefine (as necessary) the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Participates in the testing effort throughout the project lifecycle, including test script creation

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of related experience or equivalent
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Proven experience with business IT applications
• Ability to lead and influence decision-making working with senior management at Client
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Experience with MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SQL

Desired:

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration
• Experience working with Electric Generation Interconnection program
• Experience working with Electric Distribution/Transmission/Substation work and asset management processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on significant technology solutions/business process improvements from concept to implementation.

The hourly rate for this position is between $80.00-$85.00 per hour.

Compensation:

Factors which may affect starting pay within this range may include [geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate].