Senior Business Analyst

Vizient•Irving, TX

16h•$160•Hybrid

About The Position

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves . We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future. DUTIES: Work in an agile environment within a DEVOPS team; Model scalable BI solutions that help deliver quick insights; Run ad-hoc analyses to help drive projects and key business initiatives forward; Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements which includes automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing data model for greater scalability and performance; Diagnose and troubleshoot issues in real-time to provide guidance on necessary updates in code and UI; Perform data validations and QA of own work and the work of team members as required; Document business logic, program code and track changes to enable cross training and usability; Own projects and processes end to end as required, to help manage product support independently; Utilize SSIS, Excel, and other in-house tools/functions to Extract Transform, Load and analyze data with built in exception handling; Work with Analytics leadership, product management and development teams to elicit, analyze, and document user requirements, translating them into user stories; Collaborate with the Product Managers and other stakeholders to ensure health of the product backlog; Own the lifecycle of one or more products built by the team; Participate in Agile ceremonies, facilitating the discussion during planning and user story refinement; Provide reasonable estimates for work products; Collaborate with development team and ensure the design meets user requirements; Provide timely answers to team questions during design, development, and QA testing; Create SQL statements and analyze the resultant data; triage discrepancies found during the QA process; Field questions from stakeholders/end users during user acceptance testing, identify potential options to aid in the resolution process; Work with business owners and technical architects to set a strategic product direction and scope out project efforts; Follow established procedures and recommend new procedures for team standards; Utilize and evaluate metrics to identify and implement improvements to standards and procedures; Establish working relationships with stakeholders and build rapport to become a trusted advisor; Leverage available tools & templates to develop detailed work plans and status reports; Appropriately make difficult trade-offs on time and resources when faced with conflicting demands and high priority deadlines; and Communicate project expectations, updates and potential risks to team members and all stakeholders, while providing appropriate resolution/recommendations.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Math, Computer Science, Business, Management, or directly related field of study and 3 years related experience.
3 years experience in leading requirement analysis, evaluating application and business process impacts, and assessing cross-application dependencies
3 years experience in writing SQL queries, analyzing data outputs, troubleshooting validation discrepancies, and addressing stakeholder inquiries during UAT
2 years experience working in Agile environments including gathering, analyzing, documenting, and translating requirements into user stories and tasks
2 years experience in Power BI datasets, including data aggregation, filtering, and sorting
2 years experience in designing conceptual, logical, and physical data models to organize, structure, and interpret complex datasets in alignment with business requirements
2 years experience in translating complex business concepts into clear and concise language
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Math, Computer Science, Business, Management, or directly related field of study and 5 years related experience.
5 years experience in leading requirement analysis, evaluating application and business process impacts, and assessing cross-application dependencies
5 years experience in writing SQL queries, analyzing data outputs, troubleshooting validation discrepancies, and addressing stakeholder inquiries during UAT

Responsibilities

Work in an agile environment within a DEVOPS team
Model scalable BI solutions that help deliver quick insights
Run ad-hoc analyses to help drive projects and key business initiatives forward
Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements which includes automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, re-designing data model for greater scalability and performance
Diagnose and troubleshoot issues in real-time to provide guidance on necessary updates in code and UI
Perform data validations and QA of own work and the work of team members as required
Document business logic, program code and track changes to enable cross training and usability
Own projects and processes end to end as required, to help manage product support independently
Utilize SSIS, Excel, and other in-house tools/functions to Extract Transform, Load and analyze data with built in exception handling
Work with Analytics leadership, product management and development teams to elicit, analyze, and document user requirements, translating them into user stories
Collaborate with the Product Managers and other stakeholders to ensure health of the product backlog
Own the lifecycle of one or more products built by the team
Participate in Agile ceremonies, facilitating the discussion during planning and user story refinement
Provide reasonable estimates for work products
Collaborate with development team and ensure the design meets user requirements
Provide timely answers to team questions during design, development, and QA testing
Create SQL statements and analyze the resultant data
Triage discrepancies found during the QA process
Field questions from stakeholders/end users during user acceptance testing, identify potential options to aid in the resolution process
Work with business owners and technical architects to set a strategic product direction and scope out project efforts
Follow established procedures and recommend new procedures for team standards
Utilize and evaluate metrics to identify and implement improvements to standards and procedures
Establish working relationships with stakeholders and build rapport to become a trusted advisor
Leverage available tools & templates to develop detailed work plans and status reports
Appropriately make difficult trade-offs on time and resources when faced with conflicting demands and high priority deadlines
Communicate project expectations, updates and potential risks to team members and all stakeholders, while providing appropriate resolution/recommendations