TECHNICAL BUSINESS ANALYST - Cobol, DB2 Experience is required

Syncreon, a recruitment and staffing services provider, is hiring a Technical Business Analyst for a role involving business process analysis, application implementations, training, and project coordination. The analyst will facilitate collaboration between business and technical stakeholders, document and review processes, and support technical and business solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate working meetings, elicit and solicit information, and absorb the information being communicated; facilitate a shared understanding of the problem, possible solutions, and scope of the project in its entirety; facilitate solutions to technical challenges among multiple teams when they involve negotiation between multiple business and technical stakeholders
• Apply critical thinking skills to determine the appropriateness of requests, with periodic reviews of business procedures to clarify or change a business process. Use the knowledge gained in the daily operational procedures as input to business process and procedure documentation
• Prioritize across multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Present technical and non-technical information to all stakeholder groups
• Multi-task in a fast-paced environment while remaining focused on service to the client

Requirements:

• Three years of experience in business process analysis, application implementations and training, project coordination/management and business-related experience
• Agile development practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery, backlog refinement, and retrospectives
• Business analyst processes such as those outlined and used in the International Institute of Business Analysis BABOK guide
• Project coordination/management methodology, standards, and best practices
• Procedures and methods for testing business functions within computer systems
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Tools (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
• Software Development Life Cycle and development concepts
• Basic understanding of the COBOL coding language and/or AI tools in the IBM i server environment
• SQL Server and/or DB2 database experience
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Facilitate working meetings, elicit and solicit information, and absorb the information being communicated; facilitate a shared understanding of the problem, possible solutions, and scope of the project in its entirety; facilitate solutions to technical challenges among multiple teams when they involve negotiation between multiple business and technical stakeholders
• Apply critical thinking skills to determine the appropriateness of requests, with periodic reviews of business procedures to clarify or change a business process. Use the knowledge gained in the daily operational procedures as input to business process and procedure documentation
• Prioritize across multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Present technical and non-technical information to all stakeholder groups
• Multi-task in a fast-paced environment while remaining focused on service to the client