Senior Business Analyst

The Intersect Group is partnered with our client that has an opening for a Senior Business Analyst – Business Intelligence for their Irving office.

6 month contract with the right to hire (should be extended every 6 months until headcount is available for direct hire)

No C2C or third-party submissions

Location: Irving 75062 (near Hwy 114 and N O’Conner Road)

Schedule: Hybrid, 3 days onsite Tuesday through Thursday

Interview Process: 1st virtual; 2nd onsite

Summary:

Develops user stories and product backlogs for a domain of products. Owns the lifecycle for a portfolio of interrelated products and is an expert in one domain (e.g., GPO, Clinical, Workforce). Leads analysis of requirements and impact on applications and/or business processes and across other domains.

This position will primarily be aligned with business leaders to understand and document requirements for Business Intelligence projects - visualization and reporting needs, data integrations and data quality issues, and working with data engineering team to acquire data

Strong preference for someone with a healthcare/pharmacy background, since the majority of data/reporting is related to the 340B discount drug pricing program and pharmaceutical spend data

Needs:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, MIS, or relevant degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in Agile business analysis in Technology project teams required.
• Knowledge of Business Process analysis and diagramming.
• Agile Scrum business analysis experience with user stories and backlogs required.
• Excellent business requirements elicitation, analysis, and documentation skills.
• Knowledge of Data Analytics/Data Warehousing/Big Data concepts; experience gathering requirements/writing user stories for business intelligence projects
• Knowledge/experience with MicroStrategy (now rebranded Strategy) for dashboard development would be a differentiator
• Ability to understand complex business areas and applications.
• Knowledge of software test methodologies
• Working knowledge of Azure DevOps for requirement documentation preferred.
• Proficiency in SQL preferred (basic select statements and joins); expertise not required
• Knowledge of pharmacy/ healthcare/healthcare supply chain and/or 340B products a plus.
• Exceptional communication and professionalism + documentation skills are critical for this role.
• This is an Agile BA role focused on documentation, not a Data Analyst role that’s querying data and creating reports/dashboards for the business and insights themselves and just doing some requirements gathering themselves to better understand requests.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the documentation of user requirements and translation of user stories for a domain of products
• Plans, conducts, and oversees stakeholder interviews to gather requirements and/or understand current business processes.
• Develops and maintains product backlog(s) and guides others on dependent stories.
• Leads Agile ceremonies, drives the discussion for sprint planning and user story refinement, and participates in Scrum
• Clarifies requirements questions and dependencies across systems during sprint planning and testing.
• Leads or provides support to others during the user refinement ceremony.
• Acts with the Product Owner from inception to completion of a project.
• Oversee others in fielding questions from stakeholders/end users during user acceptance testing and triage performance.
• Considers cost effectiveness while conducting gap analyses to identify solutions that meet business requirements.
• Help guide business owners and technical architects to set a strategic product direction and scope out project efforts.
• Provide direction to others as they collaborate with the development team to ensure designs meet customer requirements.
• Writes SQL queries to review application data to identify and triage discrepancies.
• Identifies inefficiencies and suggests product efficiencies as they relate to projects.
• Acts as a leader and mentor for cross-functional initiatives, providing direction to analysts assigned to a project.
• Meets training requirements, follows established procedures, and proposes new procedures.
• Oversee the estimation process for work products.
• Works across team boundaries for reusability, standardization, etc.
• Trains team on standards and procedures.