IT Business Analyst

Allyn International Services, Inc.•Fort Myers, FL

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

Allyn International is seeking an IT Business Analyst to join their IT Department in either their Fort Myers, FL or Greenville, SC office. The IT Business Analyst will assist the business in implementing technology solutions cost-effectively by determining project or program requirements and clearly communicating them to stakeholders, facilitators, and partners. This role is responsible for business analysis activities in accordance with the company's systems development methodology and supporting projects within a specific area. The position involves managing the design, research, testing, and implementation of projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or equivalent college degree required
Program and project management experience required
2 years’ experience in IT related discipline
Advanced Microsoft Skills
Excellent analytical and organizational skills
Excellent documentation skills and toolkit of templates from previous work experience
Self- initiative, ability to work within a team, organizational skills
Capable of meeting deadlines
Solution and detail oriented
Capable of continually expanding knowledge base, managing multiple priorities and working in an ever-changing, customer service-oriented environment
Very Creative - Problem solver
Proper travel documentation required

Responsibilities

Build the foundation for the project effort by capturing the business context - problem, current state, desired future state, objectives, business needs and impacted user groups.
Develop requirements (business, user, process and software requirements - functional and non-functional) and establish traceability to the business vision.
Manage the requirements through the project lifecycle by establishing and maintaining agreements between the customer and the project team.
Ensure the requirements are specified in a manner suitable for the intended audience and are understandable, unambiguous and capable of being implemented and tested.
Ability to navigate the project team, IT personnel and business sponsors through a level of ambiguity including business process change; building organization and structure to requirements to drive out and define detailed requirements in an efficient manner.
Work with the project manager and the business customer(s) to define requirements stakeholders, requirements conflict resolution procedures and the requirements team structure.
Understands multiple project management methodologies/software development approaches and defines the appropriate deliverables through project phases (i.e. planning, analysis, specification and validation).
Responsible for ensuring change control and change management procedures are followed within the project team as they relate to requirements.
Determine, understand and document the business case and project scope.
Ensure that quality business analysis standards are met through the effective implementation or use of approved processes, best practices, methodologies and deliverable.
Assess change requests related to requirements to assess overall impact.
Collecting, documenting, and confirming business requirements and functional specifications.
Works in close collaboration with business partners and developers to ensure consistent understanding of business processes and requirements.
Oversee test plans and associated test case scenarios delivered by Q&A analyst.
Assists with tasks and deliverables related to System Development Life Cycle phases for package and custom solutions.
Attends and participates in user and project meetings and teams to expand knowledge, as a participant or as a lead; facilitates project status meetings; tracks project status.
Investigate and document project issues and detailed requirements.
Frequently interacts with IT staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.
Has the role of a team leader, having the QA personnel reporting to the business analyst.
Perform Allyn core values, actively promote teamwork and represent Allyn according to company culture.