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Lead Business Analyst

Business AnalystData & AI

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Overview

Meet with business users to collect and study their needs for new systems or changes to existing ones. Review those needs and suggest ways to improve systems and processes.

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Business AnalystData & AI

Meet with business users to collect and study their needs for new systems or changes to existing ones.
Review those needs and suggest ways to improve systems and processes.
Write System Requirements Specifications (SRS) that include wireframes, user stories or functional requirements, process flows, technical diagrams, and prototypes.
Work with the development team to check whether the proposed solutions can be built.
Confirm the written requirements with business users and negotiate where needed.
Explain user requirements to the development and QA teams whenever they have questions.
Help check that requirements are met during QA testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).
Prepare Requests for Proposals (RFPs) for software vendors, and help assess their technical and financial proposals.
Write other technical documents, such as System Design Specifications, API Specifications, and wireframe documents.
Create presentations and entries for award competitions that showcase the organization's IT solutions.

Requirements

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A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or IT from a recognized university, or an equivalent professional qualification.
Advantage: earlier experience in IT business analysis.
Advantage: an MBA.
Strong analytical and decision-making skills.
Excellent written and spoken communication.
Good negotiation and people skills.
Able to handle several projects at the same time.