Senior Business Analyst/Data Analytics

Location: Boston, MA Description: Senior Business Analyst / Data Analytics :

• Good knowledge of business operations.
• Good leadership skills.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to create business requirements specifications.
• Ability to work between functional and technical teams.
• Ability to work independently with little or no supervision.

• Partner with business and technical groups and actively engage in strategic initiatives requiring complex analytic models and solutions.
• Independently lead requirement gathering sessions to help design and implement a business intelligence system that would ultimately ingest large data per business and data cleansing rules and will enable business to extract business intelligence as defined in the business model.
• Execute business analysis tasks and strategies to achieve overall project business analysis goals, in line with current IT BA methodology and responsibilities.
• Facilitate successful delivery of project requirements to meet project specifications.
• Work with business users to research, understand, and document and business processes and requirements using common tools such as JIRA, VISIO, SharePoint, MS Office Suite.
• Must have thorough knowledge of product life cycle management concepts.
• Coordinate and interact with designers and developers on data quality and data management.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on data maintenance and planning processes to ensure data integrity and security.
• Experience handling large volumes of data and knowledge of various data analytics tools.
• Knowledge of Power BI or any other data visualization tool is a must.
• Support implementation of new data analytics tools.
• Using agile methodology, create and maintain business requirements documentation.
• Create clear, organized user stories. Document detailed system specifications.
• Collaborate with UI/UX designer to develop UI specifications.
• Perform software QA through Development, Test and Production release phases.
• Create test cases during development process.
• Work with development team to analyse bugs and errors found.
• Document test results for development team and application stake holders.
• Perform other duties related to software delivery as needed, including training end users.

• BS/MS or a minimum 4-year degree in a related field.
• 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience working in software development as business analyst.
• Must be highly organized with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and great attention to detail.
• Proven skills in breaking down and optimizing complex business processes.
• Proven experience leading and documenting requirements-gathering sessions and developing user stories.
• Strong working knowledge of software development, Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban) methodologies.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare User Stories, Process Flows, BRDs, FRDs, Use Cases and
• Data Mapping documents.
• Must be able to communicate with non-technical (business) and technical (development team) audiences.
• Certified Business Analyst Professional or Certified Scrum Master is preferred but not required.
• Experience with Jira is preferred.
• Experience with Smartsheet is a plus.
• Some background in environmental issues, energy, or government experience preferred but not required.

• Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be a quick and enthusiastic learner.
• Effective negotiator with the ability to successfully balance business needs with IT time and resource constraints and arrive at mutually acceptable outcomes.
• Comfort working in a fluid environment where visions and requirements may change.
• Must be able to prepare acceptance test plans, test cases and QA processes and work directly with end-users to ensure that application functionality meets requirements.
• Must be able to direct technical staff with a collaborative, hands-on approach.
• Applies a proven customer-first approach when working with others.