Sr IT Business Analyst

The MENTOR NETWORK is seeking a Sr Business Analyst. The Analyst will be eliciting, researching and analyzing business requirements for all of business and corporate units. Provide recommendations and options to the business on application design and business process improvement based on analysis. The Sr Business Analyst, will prepare business cases, create technical specifications, prepare and execute test plans and support users conducting testing activities. Provides support to IT staff and users during the development and post deployment phase of projects.

• Acts as a liaison between the project sponsors within the business unit and the Operations Systems group to facilitate the identification of process improvements, system requirements and design, testing and implementation of large and/or complex technical projects, often requiring coordination of multiple functional areas.
• Conducts needs and impact analysis on business requests, searching for ways to link programs, processes, and systems throughout the organization to achieve optimal efficiency and reusability. Considers how current organizational programs and systems will be impacted by future development.
• Analyzes and provides recommendations on major projects and system enhancements to the decision makers.
• Facilitates requirements, interviews and workshops with project stakeholders.
• Analyzes and defines user requirements and translate them into system requirements to ensure understanding of the request by all project members.
• Documents data requirements and conducts data analysis for integration and conversion efforts.
• Creates business models to support requirements language.
• Collaborates with other IT disciplines to ensure continuity between requirements, design, and testing on or between project teams.
• Creates and executes test and implementation plans and coordinates testing of system enhancements and projects with the user area.
• Creates and provides technical training for deployed applications or assists with user training when needed.
• Participates in the creation of system procedures, guidelines and technical documentation of new systems.
• Maintains expert level of business functional knowledge and current automated technologies.
• Brings expertise of Business Analysis discipline to the team helping project management, business participants, developers and other technologists adopt best practices for the software development lifecycle.
• Provides coaching and mentoring to less experienced Business Analysts on the team.
• Performs other related duties and activities as required.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Requires BS/BA degree or equivalent experience. Requires seven or more years of progressive experience as a Business Analyst or Consultant.

The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join The MENTOR Network, you’ll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

EOE/AAE