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Associate Business Technology Analyst serves as the bridge between business objectives and technological capabilities. This role requires constant adaptation and innovation to turn customer needs into actionable outputs. As an entry-level position, it is designed to help you gain the knowledge, abilities, and skill sets needed to perform the following duties under appropriate supervision and mentoring from other team members. This role will operate in both project and product models, with an initial emphasis on products. Responsibilities include researching, analyzing, and evaluating data from various sources to make recommendations for program and process improvements; staying in sync with product owners on priorities and day-to-day decision-making; translating requirements into improvements and ensuring the team understands what to build through a backlog and user stories; acting as a liaison between business areas and IT by planning, conducting, and directing the analysis of business problems to be solved with automated systems; beginning to act as an internal lead to reengineer processes using technology for greater efficiencies and effectiveness; providing technical assistance to identify, evaluate, design, and specify systems and procedures that are cost-effective, efficient, and meet business requirements and corporate strategic goals; providing business consultation, defining business requirements, and analyzing impacts to business and systems; performing analysis of facts and identifying potential solutions that meet business requirements; preparing scope documents, system specifications, and design recommendations for information system changes based on understanding of the business area and processes; helping prepare scope documents, objectives, and key results for product/application changes; documenting and refining stories/requirements based on a thorough understanding of the business area and processes; participating in functional and regression testing; and facilitating and understanding data capture and tracking requirements defined by the business to improve information and business processes. 

The knowledge, skills, abilities and experiences that are required for entry into this job include the following:

-0-2 years of experience in a related field or internship experience. 
-Must have analytical abilities, including organizational and problem-solving techniques; proficiency in presenting information through written and verbal communications; facilitation skills for gathering requirements and designing business processes related to system change requests.
-Ability to coordinate issue resolutions through direct interaction with clients and application developers. 
-Ability to perform independently within a team-based and agile environment and possess project management skills for developing project plans.
-Ability to progressively develop analytical proficiency regarding the functional and technical development of application software solutions, adding value to products or projects through continued growth in subject matter expertise of assigned business process areas and their associated application systems.
-Ability to multi-task to support production issues, test production fixes, and fulfill legal and regulatory requirements is essential. Exposure to products, user journeys, and agile processes is a plus but not required. 

Education Level:
Degree or an equivalent combination of education and demonstrated related experience may be accepted in lieu of preferred level of education:
Bachelor

Preferred Discipline(s): Business Administration, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics 
Other disciplines may be substituted for the preferred discipline(s) listed above.

No Testing Required