Lead IT Business Analyst needed for large Engineering company based in Summerset West. Looking for someone who can be the business liaison and analyst between IT and the business units.
Responsibilities:
• Understand the vision and objectives of both the company and the strategy of the IT department in helping to meet these goals
• Very strong interpersonal skills needed for forging relationships with all departments, their business leads and team members
• Maintaining relationships with IT service providers, while maintaining an objective stance on their delivery and ensuring quality in terms of their planning and alignment to the final delivered product
• To ensure solutions are in line with business strategy
• To ensure the successful transfer of IP from providers to the business in terms of complete and thorough documentation in a usable state
• Provide a “business requirements gathering framework” within which you would operate
• Ensure clear communications between users, technical team and other stakeholders
• Focus on best practice approaches for projects ensuring that the vendor is inline with delivery plans and continuous improvement processes are in place
• Control the software delivery lifecycle framework and policy from an IT perspective, working closely with the Product development department
• Use processes & procedures that are industry best practice, to drive efficiency in the business
• Able to map processes and make use of modelling tools
• Ensuring that any business initiative that involves technology, includes the IT department early in the phase, or before it starts
• Business and user satisfaction framework to be developed and used in the high-level management of projects
• Manage budgets on basic projects
Qualifications and Experience:
• Preferably a Bachelors degree with business focus or sciences
• 4+ years’ experience as a Business Analyst or solutions architect.
• Extremely strong interpersonal skills and relationship building
• Must have a solid understanding of and exposure to software development projects
• Understands agile development methodologies
• Has been involved in enterprise scale projects
• Skills in workflow process mapping
• Works well in a team
• Strong presentation skills