Rate: $65/hr Experience: 10+ years
*Business Analyst* *Position Type*: *Business Analyst* *Location*: Framingham, MA, United States *Description*: Contract Job Description/Posting Information Senior IT Business Analyst Responsibilities: A Senior Business Analyst works as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. The Senior Business Analyst understands business problems and opportunities in the context of the requirements and recommends solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals. In this role, you will be working on websites such as Staples.com helping to make Staples the #3 web property in the world. Understand and gather complex business needs and requirements from a diverse set of stakeholders and be able to effectively compile and document these needs effectively for systems design and development. Develop a broad working knowledge of Staples' business requirements and aligns the requirements to Staples' strategy and vision Collaborate with usability and creative teams to develop the Staples.com websites. Develop and maintain strong partnerships with targeted business areas Manage the competing needs of multiple stakeholders Provide input to project plan, risk assessment, and manage tasks to project schedule Manage requirements issues and issue resolution Assist business with identifying, designing and implementing new processes Requirements: 3- 5 years related IT business analysis or systems analysis experience with customer facing business applications. Strong communication skills including verbal, listening, written documentation, influencing, facilitation, presentation skills for technical or business audiences regardless of level Experience defining business, functional requirements, use cases, and user stories for e-Commerce and mobile web/mobile applications software projects. Working knowledge of Agile scrum processes such as backlog grooming and sprint planning and roles such as scrum master and product owner. Effective use of business modeling and requirements management techniques: Process, workflow modeling, use cases, product backlog management, user story definition Strong facilitation skills Experience working with multiple development approaches for internal and externally developed applications as well as packaged applications including incremental, waterfall, and Agile Scrum, or Kanban. Requires disciplined experience in defining business and functional requirements resulting in quality results with little direction Strong team player with attention to positive team dynamics Ability to create and execute effective requirements work plans Must exhibit strong self-initiative Must be adaptable (including being quick to learn) and be able to act with a strong sense of urgency Working knowledge of scrum management tools, e.g. Version One, Rally, Jira, is preferred Education: Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience Certification or at least training course work towards Business Analyst certification (CBAP) is preferred == *Position Two:* == *Sr Business Systems Analyst* *Position Type*: *Sr Business Systems Analyst* *Location*: Framingham, MA, United States *Description*: Job Summary The Senior Business Systems Analyst (BSA) serves as a liaison between the business units and information technology teams to drive enhancements through project lifecycle and manage data quality. The BSA has end-to-end project responsibilities, with heavy focus on project documentation, testing strategy, and test execution. This person will also identify, assess, and ensure proper resolution of marketing data quality issues. Ongoing communications with solution stakeholders will establish suitability of data for management reporting, marketing campaigns, and analytics. The BSA will also be part of the Data Council, working within a cross-functional team of business and information technology partners to plan and support processes for better data management across the organization. The successful candidate is a strong data/systems problem solver with a balance of database competency, communication skills, and business acumen. The role requires someone who can work independently with business and technology partners to drive results, leveraging superior SQL and Excel skills. % Time Key Job Responsibilities Impact on Business (i.e. business contribution; nature and scope of responsibility; risk and financial management; strategic vs. tactical vs. delivery orientation. Manages enhancement requests through system development lifecycle (SDLC). Writes functional requirements, provides input on solution designs, and is responsible for user acceptance testing. Work with information systems support team, manage punch list of data quality challenges. Responsible for submitting incident tickets as new issues are identified. Research issues to identify specific examples and define scope. Business impact analysis and ongoing assessment of outstanding issues. Ensure timely and accurate execution of ongoing production processes by the information systems support team, including data enrichment with Firmographics, phone & address updates, and privacy preferences. Act as the administrator of end user accounts for Teradata-based marketing database. Perform ad hoc analytics and serve as a marketing database SME, providing direct support to stakeholders. Innovation and Change (i.e. improvements to procedures, services, or products, as well as development of new ideas, methods, techniques, services and products) Establish and evolve quality standards in partnership with business and technology partners. Communication/Interactions: Internal & External Customers / Suppliers as well as Third Parties (i.e. include level or job title of customer relationship and the nature of the customer relationship management and service delivery as well as the type of interaction; adapt/exchange of information, influence, or negotiate) Participate in Data Council, acting as a marketing steward for ongoing data improvement initiatives. Develop, maintain, and execute reports of KPIs indicating quality level within marketing data mart. Report results to stakeholders, and escalate issues as necessary. People Leadership (i.e. staff management; accountability for hiring, coaching, training, conducting performance review, determining pay actions) Partner with information technology partners to determine root causes of issues, approaches to resolution, and validation/testing of fixes. Develop and deliver user group training on the Marketing Data Mart and related tools/solutions. Business Strategy (if contributes to business strategy; is position responsible for defining, modifying or executing and is focus on long term (typically 3-5 years) or short- to mid-term (12-18 months)) n/a KPIs Key Performance Indicators (i.e. how is success defined in this role?) Timeliness of identification and resolution of issues Reduction in frequency and severity of marketing data mart incident Education/Experience Equivalent (minimum requirements) BS in computer science or related field Professional Certifications / Licenses n/a Professional Knowledge/Experience Experience working with enterprise relational data models with an extensive understanding of database concepts. Ability to write advanced SQL for ad hoc analytic and reporting purposes. Experience working with very large (Terabyte scale) databases preferred. Ability to understand complex business issues and possess analytic skills to formulate solutions in conjunction with business and information technology partners. Must be able to translate and apply business needs to technical solutions. Experience working with marketing organizations preferred. Experience composing and executing user acceptance testing. Advanced skills within analytic applications (e.g. Excel) for synthesizing, aggregating, comparing, validating, and reporting on data. Experience with macro development preferred. Ability to dig deep into data issues to determine scope and impact. SDLC experience on database and/or software projects. Strong oral and written business communications skills. Demonstrated success in conveying complex concepts to business partners in a concise and readily understood manner. Experience in QA role is a plus. -- *Thanks & Regards* *Raman M* *REASONSOURCETECH.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Oracle Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oracle-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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