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TekWissen Group is a workforce management provider throughout the USA and many other countries in the world. The below job opportunity is one of our clients which deals the Electric Reliability Council of Texas manages the flow of electric power to 26 million Texas customers - representing about 90 percent of the state's electric load. As the independent system operator for the region, schedules power on an electric grid that connects more than 46,500 miles of transmission lines and 550 generation units. This Client also performs financial settlement for the competitive wholesale bulk-power market and administers retail switching for 7 million premises in competitive choice areas. This Client is a membership-based 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation, governed by a board of directors and subject to oversight by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature. Client members include consumers, cooperatives, generators, power marketers, retail electric providers, investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers), and municipal-owned electric utilities.
Job Title: Business Analyst
Work Location: Taylor, TX 76574
Duration: 6 Months
Work Type: Contract
Job Type: On Site
Role Summary:
Understands and applies principles, theories, and concepts related to business analysis, as it applies to the client process and culture.
Interacts with project managers, executives, managers, Market Participants, software developers, test coordinators, training specialists, user experience specialists, and subject matter experts to elicit and clarify business, market and project requirements
Uses interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, business process descriptions, use cases, and scenarios to obtain requirements
Analyzes and measures the effectiveness of existing business processes and develops sustainable, repeatable and quantifiable business process improvements
Uses business analysis to define and chart tasks and workflows in conjunction with project managers
Assesses technologies to create developmental specifications as well as detailed use and test cases
Facilitates the implementation of functional and non-functional requirements through the lifecycle of a project, as well as seeks approval of project documentation (e.g. PRD, RTM)
Plans and organizes time, priorities and resources to coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously and produce deliverables on time and on budget
Uses requirements to help drive the design and review of test cases
Reports issues and obstacles which may impact project delivery or completion
Serves as the subject matter expert for the business analyst discipline within the organization
Works on the most complex projects where analysis of situations requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors; has the ability to resolve complex issues in creative and effective ways
Uses considerable latitude in methods, techniques and evaluations used to obtain results which will maximize return on investment for the organization
Helps make independent business decisions, except in instances of unusually complex business scenarios
Demonstrates proven, broad based business acumen including business/financial analysis and team leadership
Maintains knowledge of emerging trends and industry best practices
EXPERIENCE
Requires a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in internal business and/or technical analysis
Prefer minimum of 2 years of experience in project managed role, with active project participation
Requires demonstrated proficiency with technical writing
Experience with utility or energy projects (preferred)
Data Management experience
Experience with various forms of documentation formats, and documentation tools (Word, Excel, JIRA, Visio, etc.)
Experience with process engineering (a plus)
Microsoft Word and Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint
Experience using JIRA for requirements, use case, and story tracking (preferred)
IT and Infrastructure technology requirements experience, to include databases, networking, servers, software development, and data center refreshes (preferred)
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree: Business Administration, Accounting, MIS, Computer Science or related field (Required)
or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required
CERTIFICATION
CBAP Certified Business Analysis Professional (preferred)
CCBA Certification of Competency in Business Analysis (preferred)
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity/affirmative action Employer (m/f/d/v) supporting workforce diversity.
Full Time
Power Generation / Power Distribution / Energy / Nuclear Energy