IT- Business Analyst - Senior
Oakland, CA, United States
Pay rate range: $55-65/hr.
Job Details:
Position: IT- Business Analyst - Senior
Location: 300 Lakeside Dr Oakland CA USA 94612
Duration:12 months
Description:
***OPEN TO NON -LOCALS BUT HM PREFERS LOCAL *** Non-locals must be willing and committed to work PST hours.
***Remote, onsite as needed and will probably be limited to 1-2 times/month****
TOP THINGS:
- Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
- utilities similar to PG&E
- 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
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.
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.