Senior Business Analyst
12 Months
Oakland, CA 94612 (Hybrid - 1-2 times onsite per month)
 
Note: Client laptop will be provided, if instantly available, otherwise personal laptop to start to local or located within client's service territory. If outside the client territory and/or out of state, should have worker's personal.
***OPEN TO NON -LOCALS BUT HM PREFERS LOCAL *** Non-locals must be willing and committed to work PST hours.
***Hybrid, onsite as needed and will probably be limited to 1-2 times/month****
 
Top Things:

• Asset Work Management, Electric Generation Interconnection (EGI)
• Utilities Domain
• SAP Work and Asset Management focusing on Electric Distribution, Transmission, Substation
• Good to have: Joint Pole experience; portal displaying assets for utilities (JUMP)
• +5 to 10 years of BA experience with gathering requirements, previous utility experience and project implementation

Responsibilities:

• The Senior Business Analyst acts as the business expert filling a liaison role between the IT development group and business units for development, enhancement, and implementation of new and/or existing systems. Additionally, this position provides data and reporting solutions to satisfy informational and performance metrics needs for one or more business functions.
• Responsible for the concurrent management of one or more medium to large complex IT Business Technology projects. These projects are one-time, multitask jobs that have clearly defined start and end dates, a specific scope of work, a budget, required resources, and a specified performance objective to be achieved. Specific responsibilities include:

• Works with stakeholders and project team to elicit, analyze, validate and prioritize the business needs/requirements
• Conducts interviews to gather customer requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Identifies and establishes scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Analyzes and verifies requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Participates in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features/functions have been enabled and optimized
• Participates in the selection of any software solutions that the organization may opt to use
• Develops and utilizes standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications
• Translates conceptual customer requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Creates process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team
• Develops and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Assists with the interpretation of customer requirements into feasible options, and communicating these back to the business stakeholders
• Manages, enforce and redefine (as necessary) the status of requirements throughout the project lifecycle
• Communicates changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements — verbally or through written documentation — to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Participates in the testing effort throughout the project lifecycle, including test script creation

Minimum Qualifications:

• BA/BS in Computer Science/ Information Systems, Business, Engineering, etc. or equivalent work experience
• Demonstrated course work and/or training in programming languages used for client’s applications and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
• 7 to 10 years of experience in similar or related job functions.
• Experience in Waterfall, Agile and Scrum methodology
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Proven experience with business IT applications
• Ability to lead and influence decision-making working with senior management at client
• Able to exercise independent judgment and take action on it
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and creative problem-solving skills
• Excellent listening, interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills
• Logical and efficient, with keen attention to detail
• Highly self-motivated and directed
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks while under pressure
• Strong customer service orientation
• Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
• Experience with MS Visio, Excel and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SQL

Desired:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Business Administration
• Experience working with Electric Generation Interconnection program
• Experience working with Electric Distribution/Transmission/Substation work and asset management processes
• Demonstrated ability to lead and deliver on significant technology solutions/business process improvements from concept to implementation

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 55.00/hr.