Business Analyst #949261
Job Description:

• Analyzes information to identify trends and opportunities as well as identify information flow and data issues.
• Supports scrum team by defining workflows, epics/features/user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Reports progress to various levels of leadership within organization and provides data insights to help leaders make actionable decisions.
• Identifies new capabilities and functionalities needed across the business processes and helps to build a data driven culture within the company.
• Plans, designs, and recommends business processes to improve and support business activities.
• Assists with developing the methods and procedures required to identify whether current business goals and objectives meet organizational needs.
• Facilitates meetings with stakeholders to gather and document data requirements, patterns in data, workflows, gaps, and potential solutions.
• Analyzes and documents client's business requirements and processes and communicates these requirements.
• Collaborates with work teams, departments, system leadership, staff, and other IT groups to define needs and business requirements and provides input into the development and modification of systems.
• Creates test scenarios and plans to be used in testing the business applications and analyzes results.
• Participates in reviews and inspections to verify 'intent of change' is carried out.
• Participates in business analyst tasks on information technology projects, problem tickets and provides support to other team members.
• Performs initial analysis of identified issues.
• Occasionally trains end users or helps guide the development of end user training materials as needed
• Ensures proper documentation and on-time delivery of all functional artifacts and deliverables.
• Acts as liaison to IT, operations and/or vendors supported in the division.
• Serves as operational business unit SME for technical and/or data driven solutions.
• Follows Agile/Scrum practices.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

 
Skills:

• Have significant experience with data analytics and experience using analytical skills to
• seek out, research and evaluate a variety of options to provide high quality, efficient
• business processes and solutions that promote efficiency and aligns with the customer
• Must demonstrate the ability to mediate and bridge the relationship between
• technical and business stakeholders without compromising the needs of the solutio
• users and the strategic goals of the organization. Competent to work at the highest level of most phases of systems analysis while considering the business implications of the application of technology to the current and future business environment.

 
Required Skills:

• Articulate
• Problem Solving
• Operations
• Business Requirements
• Additional Skills:
• Liaison
• Documentation
• Application Support
• Systems Analysis
• Data Analytics
• Agile
• Self-Directed
• Database Architecture

 
Education/Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required or five (5) years of applicable experience in lieu of
• degree; Advanced degree preferred.
• Five (5) years of applicable work experience required; three (3) years applicable
• experience in a Healthcare setting preferred. Preferred experience includes strong
• knowledge of state-of-the-art approaches in design, build, test, problem solving, and
• ability to articulate examples of workflows and processes associated with that
• Two (2) years of experience with data warehouse environments, such as data
• design, database architecture, metadata or repository creation preferred.
• Ability to work in a remote environment.
• Experience with Agile /Scrum preferred.
• Experience documenting business requirements.
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills.
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Good organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Experience in application programming or application support.

 
Additional Info:
 
At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra.  We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
 

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

 
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022!
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