Senior Business Analyst

Technology Credit Union • San Jose, CA

17d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Business Analyst is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of business objectives and the development of solutions to meet Technology Credit Union’s (Tech CU) business requirements. The Senior Business Analyst acts as the primary interface between business unit end-users and systems development, applications, and programming areas. The incumbent works directly with internal stakeholders and third party vendors to elicit business and functional requirements. The incumbent coordinates activities with other departments such as, mortgage sales, marketing, compliance, retail and the contact center to ensure all requirements are taken into account. Additionally, the Senior Business Analyst works within Tech CU’s collaborative and innovative culture to create innovative solutions to a variety of challenges.

Requirements

• B.S. Degree in Business, Project Management, MIS, Computer Science, or related area (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years’ experience as a business analyst.
• 5+ years’ experience writing user stories, functional specifications and Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams.
• 5+ years’ experience with various tools & techniques for eliciting requirements such as interface analysis, interviews and focus groups.
• 2+ years’ experience facilitating and managing user acceptance testing (UAT).
• 2+ years’ experience with process improvement methodologies such as Six Sigma, DMAIC (define, measure, analyze, improve, control) and value stream mapping to facilitate project team analyzes of business processes and recommended solutions.
• 2+ years’ experience with UI/UX design artifacts such as wireframes, storyboards, concepts, prototypes, and screen flows.
• 2+ years’ experience with team collaboration tools such as JIRA and SharePoint.
• Demonstrated organizational and planning capabilities, and ability to handle multiple projects, tasks and priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrated record of establishing priorities and meeting deadlines.
• Effective written and oral communication skills, presentation skills, and facilitation skills including the ability to deal with all levels of internal employees, external vendors and business partners.
• Advanced ability to bridge the gap in understanding requirements between the business and the technical team.
• Fundamental ability to ask investigative questions to identify and explore the issue for which the business is attempting to solve.
• Effective ability to translate business unit communications into logical requirement statements (If/When, Then).
• Good ability to anticipate “needs” rather than “wants”.
• Ability to probe the business units about “why” they perform tasks instead of just accepting actions as having business value.
• High knowledge of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile methodologies.
• Good familiarity with change management methodologies such as ADKAR (Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Action, Reinforcement).
• Innate ability to create innovative solutions to a variety of challenges.
• Highly adaptive and open to changes as the organization grows and its needs evolve.
• Strong ability to work independently and/or with respective Project/Program Manager.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience working for financial institutions preferred.
• Prior experience with financial institution software solutions, business processes and requirements, preferred.
• Lean Six Sigma Yellow, Green or Black Belt certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Participates in projects based on assignment from the Business Process Management team.
• Conducts requirements elicitation through techniques such as brainstorming, focus groups, interviews and requirement workshops.
• Interprets end-user needs and requirements to translate concepts into practice.
• Conducts stakeholder engagement assessments and manages stakeholder expectations in order to ensure all expectations are established and successfully met throughout the project.
• Creates documentation throughout all steps of the project life-cycle such as a formal business requirements document (BRD), process swim lanes and functional specifications.
• Quantifies current results and trends and conducts statistical analysis to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Helps the business identify quantifiable process measures and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
• Understands the product roadmap and cross functional dependencies to help guide business units in the gathering of their requirements.
• Acts as the primary liaison between the business and technical team.
• Facilitates meetings with applications developers to ensure business requirements are accurately translated into technical specifications and a solution design.
• Continuously develops knowledge and skills on systems that the team interacts with in order to better assist the technical team in the early identification of system gaps and potential development issues.
• Works directly with end users to develop, execute and manage a user acceptance test plan, including the management and tracking of defect reporting.
• Coaches and mentors teams on various process management methodologies and best practices to create common and consistent standards.
• Understands continuous improvement processes and ability to write processes/procedures when necessary.

Benefits

• Health Coverage : Medical, dental, and vision plans
• Income Protection : Life and disability insurance
• Retirement : 401(k) plan with company match
• Paid Holidays : 12 days annually
• Paid Time Off (PTO) : Accrues at 7.08 hours per bi-weekly paycheck (approximately 23 days per year) Increases with length of service
• Voluntary Time Off (VTO) : 8 hours annually for full-time employees to support charitable organizations
• Additional Benefits : Flexible Spending Accounts Employee-paid voluntary benefits Leaves of absence in compliance with state and federal regulations

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior