Job Description

Job Title: Business Analyst - SMS (Safety Mgmt System)

Job Location: Columbus, OH 43219 (hybrid)

Onsite Requirements:

• Compliance and risk management frameworks
• Incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action
• Data security and privacy considerations for safety records
  
  

Job Description:

Priority Skills for SMS (Safety Management System) BA:

• Familiarity with compliance and risk management frameworks
• Experience defining requirements for incident tracking, risk assessment, and corrective action modules
• Knowledge of data security and privacy considerations for safety records.

BA General Key Responsibilities:

• Writing requirements for the RFP process for the upcoming ERP project
• Defining and documenting business requirements
• Process mapping and analysis
• Writing User Stories that will feed into development team refinement sessions
• Documenting acceptance criteria
• Being the liaison for the business in IT discovery and prioritization meetings
• Running refinement sessions
• Participate in discovery and completion of the estimation model
• Coordinate QA and UAT
• Facilitate the CAB change management process.

Purpose of Position:

• The Business Analyst (BA) is a technology resource acting as a liaison between technology teams and the business on medium-to-large IT projects.
• The BA is responsible for the elicitation of stakeholder business requirements, their assessment, documentation, and translation to technology teams.
• The Business Analyst serves the business by working closely with technology teams to ensure that business needs are met through technical solutions.
• As part of a highly collaborative team, the role will interact with many technical and business resources across the enterprise.
• The ideal candidate is a committed, creative, self-motivated technologist who is interested in practicing his or her skills and learning new ones.

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to define business problems, objectives, and scope of new projects
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to elicit, analyze, and validate business requirements for new products and cross-platform features & enhancements
• Document business requirements in an organized, traceable manner
• Translate vision, business needs & requirements to business stakeholders and development teams
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology team members to define product concepts and technical solution designs
• Evaluate technology solutions, including off-the-shelf components, to ensure that they meet business requirements
• Translate technical solutions and constraints to business
• Develop business case including solutions approach options, benefits, impact assessment, risks, assumptions & product cost/benefit
• Assist in the development of roadmaps, release plans & project planning activities
• Assist in the analysis and definition of user stories to support grooming activities
• Evaluate technology deliveries meet business objectives
• Support the development of user acceptance and quality assurance tests
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to manage scope, requirements, and organizational change management required to adopt processes and technology delivered by the project Business Analyst

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• CBAP Certification preferred

Minimum Experience:

• 3+ years of professional experience as an IT business analyst or comparable role, on medium/large-scale software development projects

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Solid experience in business analysis planning and monitoring, elicitation, requirements analysis, design definition, and solution evaluation
• Strong facilitation, critical/analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Strong requirements modeling & process mapping skills
• Experience with both traditional Waterfall and Agile/Lean methodologies
• Excellent MS-Excel, SQL, and Visio skills. TFS experience preferred
• Strong communication skills and the ability to communicate appropriately at all levels of the organization; this includes written and verbal communications as well as visualizations
• Ability to build strong partnerships and influence decision makers as well as process and technology adoption
• Proactively understand functional business areas and how they interact/overlap with each other
• Experience modeling business processes using a variety of tools and techniques
• Extensive experience planning and deploying both business and IT initiatives
• Strong Business Acumen
• Experience in defining and maturing business capability roadmaps.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and/or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate.
• The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

• ** 3rd party and subcontract staffing agencies are not eligible for partnership on this position. 3rd party subcontractors need not apply.
• This position requires candidates to be eligible to work in the United States, directly for an employer, without sponsorship now or anytime in the future. **

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