Manager Life Science Business Analyst Jobs in Michigan

Company Description

A Few Words About Us - Integrated Resources, Inc is a premier staffing firm recognized as one of the tri-states most well-respected professional specialty firms. IRI has built its reputation on excellent service and integrity since its inception in 1996. Our mission centers on delivering only the best quality talent, the first time and every time. We provide quality resources in four specialty areas: Information Technology (IT), Clinical Research, Rehabilitation Therapy and Nursing.

Job Description

Position Description: 

The Business Analyst role within Dealer Financial Service (DFS) Information Analytics and Reporting Services (IARS) is the central point of contact between business customers and Information Technology's application development teams for enhancing applications. 

The Business Analyst designs and documents workflows, develops, tracks, and analyzes business requirements, and makes recommendations that positively impacts the solution. 

The Business Analyst is accountable for a full range of activities ensuring overall program effectiveness and excellence. 

Principal Accountabilities: 

Engages directly with business customers, project stakeholders, and application development teams to understand project objectives, requirements, and approaches 

Works with key project stakeholders to understand and validate high level requirements, refine scope, develop and document detailed requirements for application development teams 

Translates technical issues, breaking down technical and architectural complexities for project stakeholders, explaining developer activities, uses analysis models such as reviews and walkthroughs 

Assists in validation of technical deliverables for completeness, accuracy, and quality 

Analyzes technical requirements, verifies implementation and alignment to business requirements 

Collaborates with development team to analyze 'what if' scenarios and impacts to upstream systems 

Aids in writing test plans, testing approaches, and user acceptance test (UAT) cases, liaisons between project team and testing team during UAT 

Develops and executes training plans for business customers and technology teams 

Identifies project issues and risks 

Focuses on usability, performance, security, portability, and service levels 

Guides project activity from concept through implementation 

Connects with all team members to provide support when needed ensuring quality and success of initiatives 

Minimum Requirements: 

Strong oral and written communication skills ensuring effective communication and requirements documentation between business customers and technical teams 

Significant experience with interviewing, listening, facilitating, eliciting, and communicating with stakeholder groups in obtaining essential requirements information, including when there is hesitancy to discuss challenging topics 

Experience working with large data sets, able to write and execute SQL queries to extract, review, and present data to business units 

Interpersonal skills facilitating successful requirement workshops, brokering negotiation when necessary 

Creative thinking, pushing beyond boundaries of existing practices and mindsets 

Analytical mindset, differentiating 'needs' from 'wants', deriving necessary and implicit requirements 

Organized, successful managing a wide array of information, detail-oriented producing accurate deliverables 

Uses visual modeling for requirements and processes so common understanding is confirmed 

Experience with both packaged software and custom developed software 

Understanding of multiple software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative, Waterfall) and corresponding requirements and management practices that support them 

Self-motivated, independent team member 

Equivalency of bachelor's degree in a related field (information systems, computer science, business) 

5 to 7 years of experience in business analyst or other related business/information systems functions 

Experience and knowledge of data warehouse, information management, reporting analytics applications, and application/business domain knowledge desired 

Business Analyst Professional (CBAP) certification desired 

Knowledge of CaliberRM and Mercury Quality Center/Test Director preferred 

Lean Six Sigma experience is an asset

Additional Information

Ankita Teja

Technical Recruiter

Integrated Resources Inc.

IT REHAB CLINICAL NURSING

Inc. 5000 - 2007-2014 (8th Year)

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