Business Analyst III (Time Limited/Remote) - WashU IT

Washington University in St. Louis is seeking a Business Analyst III to support Information Security initiatives and collaborate with teams across the university to deliver technology and process improvements. The role involves analyzing business change needs, managing requirements, and ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Prepares business cases working with university partners
• Collaborates with Project Manager to define approach for requirements elicitation, documentation, management, and communication
• Ensures business opportunities, objectives, and success criteria are clearly articulated
• Performs current state analysis and/or root cause analysis as required
• Selects and applies modeling techniques for requirements analysis (scope, process, rules, data, interface models, etc.)
• Works with Project Manager to support requirements validation across scope, user acceptance, implementation, and deployment; assists in defining success metrics
• Performs feasibility analysis as required for projects
• Coordinates planning activities to meet objectives and timelines of overall program or project; works with Project Manager to forecast required time and resources
• Implements strategies for gathering, reviewing and analyzing data and system requirements
• Performs requirements elicitation using defined techniques and approaches
• Documents requirements, establishes scope and objectives and determines strategy for evaluating requirements implementation in systems to achieve business goals
• Organizes requirements by release and other needed categories and sets up traceability matrix; articulates requirements relationships and dependencies
• Translates and simplifies requirements for technical and business audiences; performs gap analysis in collaboration with technical teams
• Prioritizes requirements working with university partners and creates conceptual prototypes and mock-ups
• Uses business process modeling, traceability and quality management techniques per methodology
• Manages requirements communication and applies best practices for effective collaboration and problem-solving
• Collaborates with project management to obtain requirements approvals per project plan; facilitates go/no go decisions
• Validates requirements throughout process per plan
• Uses requirements to support design and review of test cases and process change requests
• Provides consulting to all stakeholders regarding requirements management working with Project Management
• Independently prioritizes the completion of tasks and resolution of issues to ensure compliance to project deliverables
• Supports large project assignments and other initiatives as assigned
• Monitors technical solutions to ensure alignment with requirements and evaluates solution effectiveness
• Leads and coordinates activities associated with requirements management vehicles
• Coordinates activities with other business analysts
• Participates in recommending and implementing continuous improvement plans for business analysis
• Develops requirements adoption metrics and other methods of evaluating the long-term performance of the solution
• Reviews and monitors the effectiveness of business analysis via test results
• Provides status reports
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or combination of education and/or experience may substitute for minimum education
• Analyzing Business Processes And Data (4 Years)
• Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) - International Institute of Business Analysis
• Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA) - Project Management Institute (PMI)
• Business Case Development
• Business Process Analysis Tools
• Consultative Approach
• Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA)
• Critical Thinking
• Data Development
• Data Processing
• Higher Education Technology
• Large Scale IT Projects
• Microsoft Office
• Oral Communications
• Process Flow Documentation
• Process Improvements
• Product Launches
• Requirements Development
• Software Testing
• Solutions Development
• Technical Knowledge
• Technical Problem-Solving
• Technical Writing
• Technology Research
• Testing Methodology
• Use Case Development
• Written Communication