Business Analyst

Hi , Hope you are doing great! Please find below job description & let me know if it matches with your job profile. Please share your updated resume copy along with your contact information at or Job Title:- Business Analyst Job Location:- Pittsburgh, PA (Hybrid) Job Type:- Long Term Contract Job Description:- Client is looking for an experienced, resourceful Business Analyst Agile to join our growing team. In this position, you will be responsible for defining and driving the launch of new applications and services within our company. You should have a solid grasp on Agile methodologies as well as eliciting business requirements and translating them to user stories working with the solutioning team to deliver a high-quality product to increase company revenue. In this role you will act as a critical link between the business functions and the engineering team, collaborating with functional leadership, Project Managers and external suppliers to ensure new and enhanced product features are delivered in a cost-effective manner without negatively impacting quality. Duties and Responsibilities:-

• Turns data insights into product features with practical outcomes to the ultimate customer.
• Works in an Agile environment and continuously reviews the business needs, refines priorities, outlines turning points and deliverables, and finds opportunities and risks.
• Translates product roadmap into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria.
• Builds and refines work items in the team backlog in order to keep it organized, relevant and progressively elaborated. Ensures there is enough backlog items in "ready" state to sustain team planning every two weeks.
• Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of customers.

• Lead structured meetings and use collaborative workshops to gather requirements and uncover expectations
• Elicit what is behind and underneath stated requirements rather than just collating and organizing requirements
• Fully understand the business vision, needs, drivers for change, current struggles, internal and external factors and suggest solutions and alternatives
• Participate in case development for business and ensure benefits are achievable and trackable.
• Design & Produce understandable documentation of the final business requirements and processes maintaining a high professional standard
• Clearly define project requirements using appropriate documentation (business requirements, scope matrix, use cases, etc.)
• Address application displays, fields, and files as appropriate, and/or the process, rules, data, and capabilities of the solution
• Detail deliverables and success criteria as well as metrics to measure impact of changes and return on investment
• Communication and Demand Management
• Prioritize system functionality based on requirements and apply a Minimal Viable Product approach
• Act as the liaison between functional management and IT, performing as the internal "customer" during the build of the system
• Review design documentation with business users and represent the users with the Development Team

• Organisational Knowledge and Relationships business Benefit & Facilitate the prioritisation of projects and enhancements with functional leadership

• Ensure that all changes deliver incremental business value for the effort required Strategy
• Maintain an understanding of our business and technical roadmaps and strategies
• View all requirements with a global perspective
• Continually look for options to address business pain points or add value to either our business operations or customer experience Awareness
• Maintain an understanding of: Our organisational structure and business processes
• Technologies used by our business to support their business functions and in relation to the processes
• Current technologies and solutions in this business space Relationships
• Portray one IT team to the business, working as a liaison between the business and other IT groups, being the go-between
• Represent the business impacts when a technology is having issues
• Resolve issues among IT partners off-line from our business partners