Senior Business Analyst

Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Senior Business Analyst for a position in Columbus, OH.

• Manage own schedule of work and work with stakeholders or subject matter experts, with little supervision • Demand Assessment - assist Business Relationship Managers to review and provide input into the business strategy and formulate business cases inputting analysis and views on high level business goals and outcomes • Business Planning - begin eliciting business requirements and modeling processes (as-is/to-be, using Business Processing and/or Value Stream Mapping), recording in standard documentation, and socializing the project with other IT teams i.e. Architecture, Applications, Infrastructure, and Services • Definition and Design - facilitate workshops to evolve scope, gather detailed requirements, develop use cases and begin visualizing the end result, using standard tools and techniques • Requirements Elicitation - leads, designs and facilitates business engagements to establish scope, business needs, project objectives, outcomes and expectations on business processes • Requirements Management - Oversees end to end traceability against quality business requirements using appropriate tools and templates • Solution Assessment & Validation - Engages with key stakeholders to influence the solution design to meet business goals, scope and strategy requirements. • Provides input into the identification and delivery of project benefits, traceability of requirements and impact of solutions. • Develops cross business and service user communications, acceptance test plans and supports testing and implementation • Delivery and Deployment - consulting role, providing clarification services regarding the project Vision, Scope and Requirements, plus assessing and managing Change Requests through the standard process. • Assist testing teams craft suitable test scripts. • Coach and provide daily guidance, leadership and direction to other Business Analysts or other members of the team • Use templates, tools and (internal) processes consistently, helping evolve all as required, coach other Business Analysts on use when needed. • Works with vendors to review and discuss products, and writes or participates in the writing of RFI's and RFP's. • Reviews proposed designs and solutions for usability and to assure requirements are satisfied. • Becomes domain and product expert by way of researching, testing, and familiarizing self with defined domains and new products and/or systems. • Prepares and implements detailed, organized, and user-friendly written procedures for product and/or system end users. • May develop and conduct end-user training programs utilizing a variety of training vehicles • Observes various business processes and identifies and recommends opportunities for improvement. • Supports procurement of new products or systems by conducting extensive product research and preparing detailed written reports to management • Other duties assigned by management.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience • Minimum 4+ years of experience with business modeling concepts and business application development. • Demonstrated strong business analyst skills and practicing Business Analyst on 2-3 medium/large projects • Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (CCBA) or Certified Business Analyst professional (CBAP) strongly preferred • Experience with all phases of Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC) with one or more of the methodologies: Waterfall, agile and/or hybrid methodologies • Demonstrated knowledge of project management practices, process interviewing and mapping, and project scope documentation techniques • Evidence of ability to lead, guide, and coach less experienced business analysts • Ability to use appropriate modeling techniques and build business cases • Strong teaming skills, collaboration, negotiation, communication, organizational, people management and conflict resolution skills • Experience working closely with service providers • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hybrid agile/iterative development methodologies • Knowledge/experience using testing tool like qTest, HP ALM and agile development tools like JIRA