Adaptive Solutions Group is a premier provider of information technology personnel. We provide a variety of technical professionals available for contract, contract to hire, or direct placement positions to companies in and around the Kansas City and St. Louis areas.
We are currently looking for a Sr. Business Analyst to join our team.
Responsibilities
Develops, validates, documents, and maintains business and functional requirements through agile processes and conducts structured walkthroughs of requirements with business and project team members.
Work with engineering team to support requirements gathering creation of user stories
Manage work intake across all sources of work, including functional, non-functional, technical lifecycle management, compliance, etc…
Partner with Product Owner to ensure the backlog is groomed, and stories are queued up for multiple sprints
Directly support engineers with understanding scope and validating output
Analyzes 3rd party data, derived data, client data, etc in support of validation, build and delivery of data-driven products
Facilitates the identification of data attributes and their business definition to support product operational BI needs
Analyze data, source system data, etc in support of validating inputs and outputs of products, including completeness, accuracy, timeliness, consistency, granularity and uniqueness.
Supports development of consolidated technical architectures, database models, and technical documents.
Addresses technical concerns from partners and describes business information flows between people and business processes.
Evaluates business requests to determine feasibility; researches and identifies options, including benefits and challenges of each in collaboration with product ownership and technical lead.
Supports the development of Test Scenarios and plans, facilitating acceptance testing to ensure client/user needs are met.
Executes functional QA testing of stories, ensuring acceptance criteria defined being met.
Serves as a liaison between the technical product team, business area leaders, data scientists, actuaries and team leaders.
Writes and maintains internal and client facing product documentation and training for product delivery, support.
Evaluates and tracks new or enhanced solutions to determine potential issues and communicates how problems may affect business and recommends solutions.
Participates in change management activities, QA testing, troubleshooting, and investigation.
Performs task automation and implements process improvements; recommends enhancements that result in increased quality and service.
Maintains regular and predictable attendance
Performs other duties as assigned
Required Qualifications
Advanced oral and written communication skills demonstrate ability to share and impart knowledge to a variety of audiences.
Ability to quickly adapt to new methods, work under tight deadlines and stressful conditions.
Advanced data analysis skills
Advanced investigative, analytical and problem-solving skills
Advanced ability to set goals and handle multiple tasks, clients, and projects simultaneously; Ability to appropriately balance priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Ability to work effectively within a team environment and participate in department/team projects
Ability to balance detail with departmental goals/objectives
Advanced ability to translate business needs and problems into viable/accepted solutions
Advanced negotiating and persuasion skills
Ability to liaise with individuals across a wide variety of operational, functional, and technical disciplines
General business knowledge
Preferred Qualifications
8+ years IT-related experience, such as Business Analysis
2+ years Life Insurance industry knowledge
2+ years Big Data project experience
Scrum Master experience
Experience with MDM and / or Data Governance implementations
Intermediate / Advanced SQL skills
Experience with reporting and visualization
Adaptive Solutions Group offers a competitive compensation and benefits package that includes medical, dental, STD/LTD, life insurance coverage, 401k, paid vacation and holidays.
Adaptive Solutions Group is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, and veteran or disability status.