NEW JOB OPENING
BUSINESS ANALYST
IN Salt Lake City, UT, USA!

***Only qualified Business Analyst candidates located near the Salt Lake City, UT area will be considered due to the role requiring an onsite presence ***



Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Business Administration, Computer Science, Finance, Information Systems, or other closely related field, plus four (4) years of related experience. OR an equivalent combination of related education and experience.



Required Skills:

• Agile and Scrum processes

• Core business process and operations; or demonstrated ability to learn the same

• Business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development

• Design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products

• Project management and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources

• Application development and software development life cycle concepts

• Demonstrated ability to create technical user stories and requirements documentation

• Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing

• Create systematic and consistent requirements in the form of User Stories in both technical and user-friendly language

• Apply exceptional analytical and statistical skills to systems issues and products as required

• Exercise independent judgment and take action

• Creatively problem solve using analytical and mathematical skills

• Develop effective interpersonal relationships

• Be logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail

• Be highly self-motivated and self-directed

• Organize workloads and prioritize tasks to adhere to deadlines

• Demonstrate strong customer service orientation with elected offices, county departments, and IT team

• Work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment



About the Job: Assists the full-time Business Analyst in eliciting, analyzing, specifying, and validating business needs of stakeholders. Interviews stakeholders, gathers and compiles user requirements. Applies proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help the organization make sound technology decisions. Proactively collaborates with Business Technology Partners to identify new technologies that optimize business processes. Plays a supporting role in ensuring the Information Technology Division understands business requirements. This is a temporary contract engagement to provide dedicated business analysis services for defined projects and initiatives.



Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with project sponsors to determine project scope and vision.

• Clearly identifies project stakeholders and establishes user classes, and characteristics.

• Gathers user requirements via interviews, workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.

• Identifies, establishes, and documents scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.

• Understands and coordinates Agile processes including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.

• Creates User Stories used by the development team to create software.

• Works with stakeholders and project team to prioritize collected requirements.

• Evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of existing requirements-gathering processes and develops strategies for enhancing or further leveraging these processes.

• Assists in conducting research on software and hardware products to meet agreed-upon requirements and support purchasing efforts.

• Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized.

• Participates in the selection of requirements documentation software solutions as needed.

• Analyzes and verifies technical requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.

• Develops and utilizes standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely.

• Translates conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team.

• Develops prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on user requirements as needed.

• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.

• Develops and conducts peer reviews of business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.

• Assists with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicates options back to stakeholders.

• Manages and tracks the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle; enforces and redefines as necessary.

• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders.

• Supports knowledge transfer and documentation efforts as directed by the Business Analyst.

• Follows all applicable Salt Lake County policies, guidelines, and information security standards.





***Local candidates only. Hybrid position with 2 days on site(Tuesdays and Wednesdays) and 3 days remote and Interviews dates will be March 17th, and March 20th. (20th, if needed) 1st interview will be scheduled virtually. If a second or call back interview is requested, the second will be in person. ***

• **Only those lawfully authorized to work in the designated country associated with the position will be considered.**

• **Please note that all Position start dates and duration are estimates and may be reduced or lengthened based upon a client’s business needs and requirements.**