Business Analyst

Looking for a Senior Technical Business Analyst!! Candidate must have extensive handson experience with SQL mainly but also with strong communication and business facing skills!!
Candidate must have minimum 9 years of experience or more!!

Job Title: Senior Technical Business Analyst
Location: Owings Mills MD Candidate must work onsite 2 days a week at Owings Mills location (Every week Tuesday and Wednesday (4515 Painters Mill Road Owings Mills MD 21117)

***Local candidates will be given the first preference***

Manager notes

• Candidates must have strong business facing AND technical acumen and taking initiatives. Looking for an independent worker only!! We will not train the candidate
• Definitely need strong SQL skills someone who can work with the databases.
• If someone has exposure to tableau or MicroStrategy or other dashboards that would be helpful it is a nice to have but will definitely be given the first preference
• Need strong communication initiative taking not someone who is going to sit back and wait for tasks
• Would be nice if theyve worked in the finance industry because of the type of work your team does would be a nice to have

Project: more just team supplements lot of enhancement work manager has 3 agile teams so work could be in any of those agile teams. No specific projects just enhancements could be on servicenow database side or dashboardsexpecting someone to pivot quickly and with a strong enough technical grasp to understand various projects

• They use servicenow but not expected to build anything but should be able to use the tool. UI/workflow design is nice but not required

Job Description
In this role you will act as the main interface between technology and a specific business/functional area to help identify business solutions define business requirements build application and process specifications coordinate with engineers and ensure that work is prioritized by business value and in alignment with the overarching business and technical strategies. You may be involved in the writing of technical materials/documentation.

The BA will also be responsible for Quality Assurance and validation. The environment is Agile so BA will be responsible for driving to get the work ready for delivery sprints.

Required Skills
Demonstration of logical reasoning and analytical skills; ability to analyze data in a database
Strong communication skills including the ability to explain technical solutions to nontechnical people
Ability to translate complex requirements into tactical solutions and write detailed requirements
Strong understanding of data database design and SQL skills
Ability to understand and articulate system technical and data dependencies
Ability to write test cases and perform QA testing

Desired Skills
Experience with dashboard tools (QlikSense Microstrategy Tableau)
Experience with agile software development
Knowledge/experience with writing requirements for cloud technologies and/or data/services integrations

Other Nice to Have Skills
Experience with a workflow tool such as ServiceNow
Experience with UI and workflow design

Role summary and job responsibilities:
Accountability for driving the work
Working independently and as part of a team
Defining complex or enterprisewise business needs for new and/or enhanced products services or optimized business processes
Working closely and develops relationships with a variety of internal and external business partners to ensure that all business requirements are understood documented and met
Ensuring a leanagile mindset is applied to work projects
Working on initiatives of moderate to high complexity size and impact
Ability to break down complex or vague problems and steps through them in a rational way
Able to evolve a decision as new information is gained
Finding opportunities for process improvements
Assisting in implementation of new processes as technologies risks and methodologies evolve
Translating business needs into details and requirements that engineers can understand and deliver