Senior Technical Business Analyst

Are you a Senior Technical Business Analyst looking to join one of the top companies in the Energy and gas industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience as a Business Analyst or similar role in an Information Technology department?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work remotely for our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• The Technical Business Analyst's role is to elicit, analyze, audit, specify, and validate the business needs of stakeholders, be it customers or end users.
• This includes interviewing stakeholders and analyzing data to gather and compile user requirements to understand the people, process, technology, and data solutions they need.
• The Technical Business Analyst will also be proactive in drawing business process diagrams and working with the Data Architect and Enterprise Architect to look for new data or technologies (where needed) to optimize business processes.
• The Technical Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring IT's understanding of business requirements and act as a technical communication hub for how IT and data systems impact business decisions.
• Collaborate with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics.
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.
• Analyze and diagram business processes and functional requirements and participate in the development of business cases in the support of process changes or projects.
• Identify and establish the scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, critical business issues, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Work with stakeholders and the project team to prioritize collected requirements.
• Act as a consultative team member with peers, business partners, and vendors in planning, organizing, preparing, and executing on initiatives
• Research, review, and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develop strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.
• Develop and utilize standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely.
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear, comprehensible manner for developers and the project team.
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and the project team.
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders.
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary.
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements verbally or through written documentation to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood.
• Provide guidance and instruction to junior staff members.
• Assist in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts where needed.
• Participate in the QA of purchased or implemented solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.
• Participate in the selection of any requirements documentation software solutions that the organization may opt to use.
• As a business liaison, I lead or support Project Management principles in executing the effort across all phases (full SDLC) for different data and technology projects.
• Business ambassador and translator of business data processes.
• Create and groom the backlog, document stories and solutions broken down in releases and sprints using an Agile Project Methodology.
• Champion data governance and provide data that is accurate, thorough, and detailed.
• Support the area Manager in Project Team Resource Planning, including developing an understanding of staff capacity, budget reviews, and tracking.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $47.51/ hr

Hours: 40 hrs / Week

Length: Temporary (14 months)

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Required Skills:

• High School Diploma or GED.
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar role in an Information Technology department
• Minimum 5 years of experience with SQL to identify/analyze this data for downstream consumption.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with requirements gathering and analysis techniques
• Minimum 5 years of experience with Agile methodologies, tools, and SDLC.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with AWS and Azure.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with ERP Evaluation and Assistance knowledge.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in software development/engineering.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle.

Preferred Skills:

• Utility domain experience.
• Good understanding of Business Process Mapping Notation
• Exceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as required
• Good understanding of Tableau, SAP BOBJ, and ETL development
• Good understanding of SAP Business Objects, Tableau, Oracle, and SAP ERP.
• Any one Cloud Certification in AWS, Azure, or similar technologies.
• Any one certification in Project Management methodologies.
• Good analytical skills, thorough, detail-oriented
• Strategic thinker who can contribute to building strategic roadmaps for technology investments
• Ability to quickly acquire knowledge related to business operations and product specifications
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, facilitation & communications skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a highly collaborative team
• Work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with tight deadlines.
• The Technical Business Analyst will apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the business make good data and technology decisions.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.