Business Analyst

**Title** : Business Analyst **Location** : Austin, TX – Onsite \-\-\-\- **(ONLY LOCALS)** **Long Term project** **Job Description** * Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs. Formulates systems to parallel overall business strategies. * Experienced with business process reengineering and identifying new applications of technology to business problems to make business more effective. * Familiar with industry\-standard business process mapping, and reengineering. Prepares solution options, risk identification, and financial analyses such as cost/benefit, ROI, buy/build, etc. * Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs. * 8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. * Min 5 years of experience, served as a liaison between the Business community and Customer IT Teams (i.e., Architecture, Project Delivery, Application Sustain, etc.). * Strong experience as a Data Analyst in analyzing raw data, and as a Business Analyst in requirements gathering, understanding technology, and any project management experience **Required** : * Extensive experience reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating business systems and user needs. * Thorough understanding of the business analysis areas of knowledge and its associated activities and tasks. * Experience participating in software development reviews and providing advice and assistance to other team members in analysis, design, and test. * Experience performing or participating in unit testing, support system testing and user acceptance testing. * Extensive skill in planning and organizing work to meet goals and complete multiple assignments without compromising accuracy. * Thorough knowledge of software development lifecycle methodologies. * Extensive skill in effective verbal and written communications with both IT and business professionals and clients. **Preferred** : * Experience with the implementation of case management systems. * Experience with Jira project management software.