Business Analyst

Job Title: Business Analyst

Location: Kansas City, MO

Job type and Duration: Contract to Hire

Our client, a global Architecture and Design Firm, is looking to hire a Business Analyst to join their Corporate IT team in Kansas City, MO.

The Business Analyst will be tasked with analyzing IT systems, identifying and documenting needs from both business and IT stakeholders, and leading the development teams' day-to-day activities through Agile processes. This is a business-facing and technology-facing role, requiring excellent communication and organization to create alignment amongst multiple business practices.

• Act as a liaison between the business stakeholders and technical delivery teams translating concepts into language that is easily understood by both parties.
• Develop a fundamental understanding of your team's technical systems and your business stakeholders' processes.
• Elicit user and technical requirements for new initiatives and ad hoc requests from multiple internal business practices.
• Document requirements and technical details with clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Determine the scope of requests and identify possible development iterations to unlock the greatest client value.
• Prioritize and sequence backlog with an understanding of dependencies related to the roadmap.
• Facilitate various agile team ceremonies such as standups, refinement, planning, and retrospectives.
• Measure and monitor the development team's process efficiency and velocity.
• Communicate project status with stakeholders and others throughout IT.
• Ensure projects stay on track towards deliverable commitments, occasionally completing trade-off analysis to influence product decisions.
• Coordinate technical implementation, testing, training, and communication efforts with multiple internal business and IT groups, as well as external vendors.
• Act as an ambassador for the product and as the primary contact for queries related to the product.
• Apply critical thinking to troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively.
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or applicable years of experience instead of degree
• Minimum 4 years of technical business analysis experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of agile development methodology and practices
• Understanding of technical terminology, preferably experience in Cloud and Infrastructure projects
• Strong facilitation skills for meetings and stakeholder workshops
• Project management experience preferred
• Experience with Azure DevOps or other agile software is a plus
  
  

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