Senior Application Analyst

Delta Dental•Oakland, CA

About The Position

The Senior Applications Analyst is responsible for applying past experience and industry standards in the planning, organizing, and conducting of a Business Needs Assessment, most commonly referred to as Business Requirements, for the development of systems capabilities that are cost effective, creative, and that meet user's needs. This role may engage in the solutioning of complex challenges and may recommend and implement system configurations to accomplish complex project goals. The Senior Applications Analyst plays a durable role throughout the Development Lifecycle that includes gathering and documenting business requirements, creating use case scenarios, modeling business process, and participating in the overall planning that will ensure the system delivered meets the needs of the business.

Requirements

4+ w/Bachelor’s degree
Experience in business analysis in a technical environment, supporting large teams of business, IT staff, and executive management
Experience with both process and data-driven structured analysis technique.
Excellent communication, influence, presentation, team and interpersonal skills.
Able to present goals, project scope, and requirements to any level in the organization.
Ability to conceptualize business problems and out of the box solutions
Champion of change, process and best practices to both the business and technical team members
Ability to train, lead and mentor others by lending subject matter expertise and knowledge
Strong multi-tasking abilities with project management skills
Strong data interpretation skills to form actionable suggestions to support business requirements
Ability to understand stakeholder needs and demonstrates creative thinking to provide innovative solutions and recommend system and process enhancements.
Strong decision-making skills and process management to ensure stakeholders understand all the conditions, environment, and measures in which the decision will be made.
Ability to perform evaluation of historical trends to provide predictive insights
Ability to offer solutions to resolve risks, conflicts, and assumptions.
Ability to summarize requirements and connect requirements to business goals while anticipating impact on target as well as related systems.
Strong research skills/ability to get an overview and dive into details independently.
Moderate experience with agile methodologies (with Kanban boards or Sprints)
Strong root cause analysis skills and ability to write and execute basic SQL queries and reports
Deep level of understanding of multiple systems

Responsibilities

Works independently in assisting the business in building upon the project definition, description and vision document, which may include scope, risk, and identification of stakeholders with infrequent oversight
Plans, coordinates, and creates written documentation that clearly describes the needs of the business, which may include Business Requirements, Business Use Cases, Process Models, Business Needs Analysis, or Conceptual Design Documents.
Gathers requirements, researches and analyzes existing, and proposed solutions in the development, modification, or enhancement of programs or systems.
Engages in dependency analysis, functional design, workflow analysis, use case analysis, data and process modeling, and has a clear understanding of the current and future business rules
Participates in the Testing discipline by partnering with the Test Lead to support including Test Planning, incident research and analysis, Test strategy, QA and user acceptance testing functions, as needed
Leverages a deep understanding of system behavior and data properties to assist Test Lead in determining efficient and effective approaches to testing broad and/or complex topics
Works independently to prepare and plan all aspects of the Requirements discipline, including controlling or participating in estimating, feasibility analysis, meeting facilitation, management and executive reporting, change request management, issue tracking, process improvements, and project planning
Provides support as needed throughout the project lifecycle, participating directly in issue resolution, break and hot fix support, and triage in the identification and resolution of all project incidents, documentation maintenance and traceability as related to the Requirements discipline
Stays current with customer needs and strategies; utilizes formal and informal written communication methods to communicate updates and findings; and facilitates meetings and presentations to all types of diverse audiences
Configures COTs application to fit business and operational needs