Information Technology Business Analyst

Our Client is Looking for a Business Analyst with video game industry experience - 100% remote - working EST hours Position: Business Analyst with video game industry experience Duration: 12 months contract Location: 100% remote Job Description: • Work with business partners to elicit high-level requirements, capture business needs, understand the customer journey, and define user requirements • Engage with business partners and influence project decisions, assess the risks of various solutions, and prioritize competing business demands • Provide consultative support on business-led technology initiatives, promoting architectural consistency and usability • Identify opportunities for business-led delivery, coaching employees to make use of technology and information • Facilitate requests for new technologies and architecture reviews • Proactively monitor industry, functional, and technology trends What we’re looking for • At least eight years of experience as a BA (with a Bachelor's degree in any field) converting business and functional requirements into use cases, epics, and user stories with acceptance criteria • Ability to convey complex and technical business issues to diverse audiences, projecting a highly credible, polished image in presentations and communications • Skill in applying different strategies to convince others to change their opinions or plans, and ensuring that proposals or arguments are supported by strong logic and a compelling business case Broad IT domain experience in three or more of the following areas: • Enterprise Architecture, Software Development and Architecture, Infrastructure, Project Management, Vendor Management, and Maintenance and Support • Demonstrated ability to quantify resource requirements and measure/communicate proposed project benefits • Excellent meeting facilitation and organizational skills • Proven ability to create excellent technical documentation and diagrams • Strong risk assessment, problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills • A passionate, solutions-focused, diligent, and innovative professional who can influence everything we do Nice to have skills but not required: • Experience with Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Workspace, and Miro • Experience assessing technologies (developing evaluation criteria, determining how well different alternatives meet those criteria, and documenting findings) • Demonstrated knowledge of agile software development methodologies • Experience with application portfolio management, IT asset management, or configuration management • Familiarity with typical company structures and operations outside of IT