Business Data Analyst

Position Summary: Title: Business Analyst Standard II Duration: 6 Months – Long term extensions Location: Washington, DC 20433 Hybrid Onsite: 4 days onsite per week from Day 1 HM Notes: Strong experience in Financial and Investment domains. Proficient in modern data warehouse concepts and implementation of curated data sets. Proficient in SQL. Solid analytical and problem-solving skills. Effective team player. Excellent communication skills. Essential Job Functions: • Interface with the business client to understand business needs and requirements, and to help develop and maintain the client relationship • Identify business and functional requirements by working with application end-users, and lead the collection, analysis, documentation, and coordination of those requirements • Build stakeholder consensus and ensure everyone is on the same page, in agreement, and can visualize the solution being proposed • Develop and maintain business cases, requirements, use cases, test plans, test strategies, test cases, and operational procedures and plans • Document business processes and workflows, develop and maintain business process models • Craft business cases to evaluate the feasibility of technology initiatives • Design and execute test cases for application development and implementation projects • Collaborate with IT professionals to determine if solutions currently exist (internally or externally) or whether new solutions are feasible to meet business requirements • Leverage rapid prototyping approaches to present as-is/to-be processes/workflows and rough designs of the proposed solution • Maintain a comprehensive chronological trail of requirements and agreements and actively contribute to the project change control process. Document and manage issues and actions • Provide overall support to ensure the successful design, testing, and implementation of applications that support the business unit, Also, provide support in developing training materials and conducting training • Document and manage issues and actions for IT applications and projects • Prepare and make presentations using MS PowerPoint, Visio, and other tools and clearly present ideas to stakeholders and management • Participate in the evaluation of new products or initiatives to determine the technology support required • Evaluate applications and IT environments, and analyze gaps between current and desired states • Propose recommendations based on industry best practices • Develop, deploy, and maintain business capability models, according to the Bank’s institutional methodology Must Have Skills: • The BA should be able to think outside the box, challenge existing processes, analyze requirements, and break them down into well-defined user stories with sufficient details and achievable acceptance criteria. • Should possess an analytical and curious mindset to ask the right questions and effectively qualify business requirements. • Someone who’s genuine, honest, and smart, enthusiastic, accountable, a strong communicator, and always willing to go the extra mile to get things done. • 4-8 years of experience as a true business analyst. • Extensive experience in gathering business requirements and developing functional specifications. • Working level experience with Agile and SAFe methodologies. “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”