Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).
Job Description:
- Conducts business process analyses needs assessments and preliminary cost/benefit analyses in an effort to align information technology (IT) solutions with business initiatives. Prepares functional system and program specifications.
- Performs activities that are more complex has latitude to apply skills to solve most problems without review and has latitude to devise the approach and method to performing assignments.
- Regularly performs longterm or nonroutine assignments with minimal supervisory intervention seeking assistance when significant deviations are proposed or when unprecedented problems arise
Job Responsibilities:
- 10% Formulates and defines systems scope and objectives through research and factfinding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements
- 15% Devises or modifies complex information systems including analysis of business and user needs documenting requirements and revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary
- 5% Determines and recommends programs required for optimal problem solution within cost/performance objectives
- 10% Participates in requirements planning and feasibility determination
- 5% Performs analyses and prepares reports to ensure that programs meet or exceed schedule commitments
- 20% Works on tasks including project or functional requirements functional design functional configuration testing and documentation
- 5% Trains serves as a resource and provides guidance to other IT business analysts on nonroutine problems processes and policies
- 5% Assists senior staff in developing strategic approaches to problemsolving and anticipating issues
- 5% May work with external vendors or service providers
- May lead crossfunctional project teams and may manage portions of the project life cycle. May function in project capacities including requirements gathering functional design functional configuration testing and documentation
Required Qualifications:
- Excellent communication skills that effectively present findings to stakeholders improve productivity and coordinate updates with multiple stakeholders
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail including the ability to write clear and wellstructured business requirements and documentation
- Experience performing data discovery analysis modeling and transformation
- Experience with data warehouse analysis and specification development (e.g. Oracle DB Snowflake and discovery/governance platforms MS Purview or equivalent)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Can create reports dashboards and visualizations to help others understand business performance
- Understanding of document/file and knowledge management
- Understanding of University operations related to research teaching and learning outreach and administration. Examples of functional work group: data warehouse teams other business analysts services teams who are doing data integrations.
- Experience working with data and software engineers.
- Ability to handle multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously
- Ability to plan organize and prioritize multiple projects independently to meet deadlines and complete tasks in an accurate manner
Education:
- Bachelors Degree Preferred Minimum
Required Skills : Business AnalysisOracle Applications
Additional Skills : Oracle DBABusiness Analyst