Job Responsibilities
Lead all activities within Requirements Gathering, Analysis, and
Specification. Work with the Business Representatives and
Information Resources Project Manager to establish user
acceptance and success criteria. (spend approximately 16 hours
a week on this task)
Partner with the Director, the Information Resource manager and
the customer to understand their business strategy and IT goals.
(spend approximately 4 hours a week on this task)
Be able to team with both internal resources facilitating both
meetings and the completion of the deliverables, through both
personal documentation and partnering with external vendors and
internal teams. (spend approximately 4 hours a week on this
task)
Create documents based on requirements gathering, define the
Stakeholder Inventory and Glossary, document stakeholder
requests, and continue to refine documents and gain consensus.
Evaluate and prioritize features with stakeholders. (Spend
approximately 16 hours a week on this task)
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Job Requirements
Hiring requirements are as follows:
Experience of working on all aspects of the System Development
Lifecycle.
Able to demonstration rigorous execution of formal requirements
gathering and analysis.
A basic understanding of UML modeling techniques is required for
Context Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams and Activity Diagrams.
In depth knowledge required of Rational RequisitePro and
ClearQuest .
Technical Skills/Other:
Excellent oral and written communications skills, and the
ability to facilitate, probe, build consensus and drive the team
to achieve the strategic vision/goal.
Act as a liaison between business and IR teams.
Education/Experience:
8 years of related work experience.
BS/BA in Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
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Uppers
Flexible work schedule
Ability to telecommute on some days
Working with technical people & business people gives one a good idea of how the
business/company functions.
Job allows you to be creative.
Job is not monotonous.
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Downers
Sometimes very tough deadlines to meet that require extended
work hours.
Sometimes one is exposed to "office politics" (an us vs. them
attitude).
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Lifestyle
A great deal of my collegues worked their way up to a Business
Analyst position from a helpdesk role. Supporting the business
gives one a great deal of insight into business requirements as
well as allowing one to learn the system very well.
Job outlook is good - as more companies begin to use systems to
steamline their businesses, capture valuable consumer
information via systems and publish web sites for various
ecommerce purposes more developers will be required to code
these systems and more business analysts will be needed to
thoroughly document business requirements as well as assist in
QA, testing and training.
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Compensation
Salaried (excempt) 75,000 - 95,000 per year.
Not bonus eligible.
Standard benefits package: healthcare, dentalplan, 401K,
employee stock purchase plan, employee discounts on goods &
services.
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Advice to Jobseekers
A great deal of my collegues worked their way up to a Business
Analyst position from a helpdesk role. Supporting the business
gives one a great deal of insight into business requirements as
well as allowing one to learn the system very well.
Job outlook is good - as more companies begin to use systems to
steamline their businesses, capture valuable consumer
information via systems and publish web sites for various
ecommerce purposes more developers will be required to code
these systems and more business analysts will be needed to
thoroughly document business requirements as well as assist in
QA, testing and training.
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