*NEED H1B, CITIZENS* Job Title : Sr. Business Analyst
*Location : Austin, TX *if not 80% Travel during Requirements Phases Duration : 6 months Seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a *Public Retirement* modernization project; the person must work onsite 4 days a week at the client location during requirements gathering phases and may work remotely during other project phases. This Senior Business Analyst is responsible for performing the following: · Facilitates JAD sessions to obtain system requirements from client staff for various functional areas · Documents requirements, defines scope and objectives, and formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. · Provide technical and business production support to client staff and apply expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. · Utilize extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. · Perform a variety of role related tasks. · Document requirements, and translate into proper system requirements specifications using high-maturity methods, processes and tools. · Develop use cases, test scripts and executed test scripts to validate major functional components · Effectively communicate, both verbal and written to multiple levels and various groups. · Involved in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle to implement a large retirement administration system · Assist in developing training documents for functional processes for client staff · Assist in training client staff on functional processes associated with retirement application Education and Experience Required: · Typically a Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline or equivalent experience and a minimum of 6 years of related experience or a Master's degree and a minimum of 4 years of experience. · Minimum 2 years in a business analyst or similar role for the implementation of a public retirement system · Recommended: IIBA CBAP™ (or equivalent) certification obtained. · Ideally, recognized industry-certification. Knowledge and Skills: 4 or more year’s business analysis experience that includes: · Strong retirement domain knowledge · Experience facilitating requirements elicitation session and requirements reviews with end users · Experience writing use cases. · Experience presenting to user and management groups. · Experience writing requirements for reports. · Demonstrated expertise in a variety of the field’s concepts, practices, and procedures. · Good knowledge of ALM Must have excellent written and communication skills; Experience gathering requirements on a State/Local Government project preferred; Subject matter expert in the retirement industry; [image: regards-thumb8083555] Tom Martin Sr. IT Recruiter 459 Herndon Parkway Suite 11, Herndon, VA – 20170 tmar...@idexcel.com I www.idexcel.com Phone: 571-441-0419 l Fax: (703) 880-7584 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hot List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to directclienteq+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to directclienteq@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/directclienteq. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.