DPP is seeking a
Lead Business Analyst for our client in the financial and banking industry in Columbia, SC.
Work arrangement: - Hybrid: Onsite Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. WFH Friday and Monday.
- W2 position; 6+ months (potential of extending)
Position description: - As a member of the Loan Origination team, the Lead Business Analyst will develop and support new or existing products, processes and systems.
- Provide business analyst skills in the practical application of Client services.
- The Lead Business Analyst works directly with association customers to understand customer requirements.
- The Lead BA can discern the difference between association needs and wants, and understands the tradeoffs required at Client and for the customer.
- The Lead Business Analyst is capable of training customers on existing systems as well as setting the direction for customers on new systems preferred by Client.
- The Lead Business Analyst should have experience with project management and typical SDLC processes and make sound judgement decisions based on this experience.
- The Lead BA should also be capable of providing estimates for systems development from a business analysis perspective using prior experience.
Responsibilities and duties: - Apply advanced knowledge of business and management theory to perform requirements gathering from the business users of the system while adhering to SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) industry best practices.
- Provide guidance to the software development team and business users, ensuring the proposed applications comply with the business specifications.
- Work on design and development of client-desired software and web portals.
- Analyze information and requirements. Document them into business requirement, functional requirement and systems requirement documents and communicate them with team and business users.
- Implement the entire Agile methodology of application development with its various activities including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Retrospective and Sprint review.
- Extensive knowledge of querying databases and reporting utilizing SQL server management studio and SSRS reporting tools.
- Analyze and present business processes by developing Use case, Activity, Swim Lane, Context and Scope diagrams utilizing MS Visio, MS Power Point or related process managing tools.
- Build field to field data mapping specifications to document systems interface and migration initiatives utilizing MS Excel, MS Word, and SQL Server Management Studio.
- Prioritize outstanding defects and system problems based on business values, ensuring accuracy and deadlines are met.
- Identify and participate in resolution of business system issues with users.
- Write User Acceptance Test Plans based on business users' requirements and review Test Plan templates.
- Ability to communicate well, collaborate with customers, technical, product owners, and team members. Self-organized.
- As assigned, perform other duties normally associated with this occupation.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities preferred: - Master's degree in business administration, management or any related field, plus 4 years of experience in business analysis
- Extensive knowledge of SDLC Life Cycle and Industry best practices
- Knowledge of MS Excel, MS Word, MS Visio and MS Power Point, MS Visual Studio
- Business, Functional and Technical Documentation skills
- Able to communicate business requirements with team and business users
- Experience with SQL Server Management Studio and SSRS Reporting tools
- Ability to write test cases and test plan
- Experience in guiding customers through User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
- Experience as system expert for product and customer support
Interested? Learn more: Click the apply button or contact our recruiter
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to learn more about this position (
25-00242).
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DPP.
Authorized US Worker - US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time.
EOE/AA/V/D