Senior Business Analyst

Purpose of Position

This position is responsible for identifying, defining, planning, coordinating, and executing requirements of information systems of various sizes and complexities.

Leads and / or assists with project scoping and business process reengineering under the general direction from business and IT leadership on prioritized work.

Business Process Analysis : Identifies businesses strengths and weaknesses and suggests areas of improvement. Expected to proactively drive conversation to understand and recommend modifications to business processes addressing complex business issues as the business and systems evolve.

Methodology / Solution Approach : Expected to operate within agile methodologies and evangelize scrum methods and learnings across the BA profession.

Behaviors : Expected to conduct daily activities with the utmost professionalism : create a positive and collaborative work environment with every interaction.

Demonstrate a growth mindset, a willingness to accept coaching and feedback and apply learnings going forward.

Tasks and Responsibilities

Requirements analysis, documentation, and communication, for large and / or complex technology projects with local, remote, and / or offshore teams.

Leadership and development support for those projects, as needed.

• Scoping and estimation, and / or business process reengineering, for large and / or complex new business project requests from any operating company / business unit.
• Liaison between IT and assigned business units.
• Helping define and improve Business Analyst processes.
• Analyze and reverse engineer current code to write better requirements and design of future state.

Education

Bachelor's in Business Administration or Information Technology

Certifications and Licenses

Years of Experience

4-6 years of experience

Core Competencies

Adaptability

Collaboration

Curiosity

Service-Oriented

Strives for Positive Results

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Other (KSAOs)

• Requires extensive experience with standard software development project management processes (SDLC, waterfall, RUP, agile, etc.).
• Requires extensive experience with standard analysis and documentation techniques (use cases, business rules, process diagrams, etc.).
• Requires strong ability to balance competing needs and priorities, and to stay focused on the priorities of the overall NetJets business.
• Prior coding background in either .Net / VB or Java
• Requires excellent verbal and written communication skills, people skills, presentation skills, and facilitation skills.
• Requires ability to navigate complex organizational structures.
• Requires the ability to assess and prioritize the customers’ needs and root problems.
• Requires ability to facilitate meetings between analysts and individuals from within the business.
• Requires ability to closely manage others’ expectations, inside and outside of IT.
• Requires ability and willingness to mentor and coach more junior employees.
• In addition : Ability to gain both a broad and a deep understanding of business operations, processes, problems, and needs, to the level necessary to recommend process improvements in addition to technology solutions.
• Experience in use case analysis and modeling, and other industry best practices, especially on large / complex projects with large teams.

Experience working with distributed operations and companies, on multiple continents.

• Experience with project proposal scoping, estimation, and cost / benefit analysis. Lightweight project management experience and / or ability.
30+ days ago