Tech Business Analyst Sr

American Electric Power•Columbus, OH

2d•$87,633 - $109,543•Onsite

About The Position

Working within Waterfall frameworks, a Business Analyst will work with a variety of disciplined focused team members all working toward a common goal of delivering value with quality and scale. Responsible for collaborating with other Job Families such within Technology and across our business partners to deliver consistent, reliable technology solutions that leverage AEP's technology standards, architectures and best practices. Independently performs intermediate to advanced business and project analysis for medium to large projects.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, business or related field of study; Or Associate's degree in computer science or related field of study with 2 years of relevant work experience; Or High school diploma/GED with 4 years of relevant work experience.
5 years of relevant work experience is required.

Responsibilities

Understand stakeholder needs and participate in the formation of business case and project scope.
Demonstrate breadth and depth of business analysis techniques and tools for use case modeling, data modeling, and process mapping.
Learn new domain by collaborating with business and technical teams.
Demonstrate facilitation and process improvement skills.
Create analysis work plans and estimates of analysis activities.
Conduct workshops for requirements elicitation, create documentation, establish business capabilities, and ensure asset organization and refinement.
Prove technical aptitude utilizing querying tools and understanding relational databases.
Apply technology solutions by translating business requirements into conceptual, logical, and physical data models, and system configuration.
Participate in process redesign and support including using tools, responding to user questions, problem diagnosis, recognition and solutions for process improvements, research, troubleshooting, tracking and resolution.
Monitor expenditures to meet organizational objectives and compliance.
Monitor and manage assets and resources from a financial perspective.
Responsible for business unit relationships and overseeing, managing and leveraging the entire life cycle of information technology investments in systems for a department - from defining and targeting the investment mix, to planning the portfolio structure and packaging, to communicating the portfolio plan and measuring results.
Play a key role in the strategic planning process for the IT organization, acting as an advisor to IT and business leaders.
Understand how enterprise priorities link to technology investments, and the risks and benefits of specific portfolio activities.
Work with the IT organization and other stakeholders to develop, prioritize, and execute the information technology and business portfolio plan.
Analyze portfolio performance and recommend changes in investment mix to achieve goals.
Identify opportunities for optimizing information technology portfolio performance to lower cost of ownership and provide a competitive advantage to the business.
May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.
Include project management for small efforts.