Senior Business Analyst

TEKsystems is seeking 8 Senior Business Analyst’s for a large LA based Media & Entertainment company. These BA’s will be responsible for providing functional, technical, and analytical expertise for building and supporting various technology products. We are looking for an experienced analyst with solid technical skills and a good understanding of studio business and content lifecycle. There will be a lot of application integration evaluation work, and onboarding applications into specific portals.

Workplace Type: 100% Remote
Contract Length: 5 months – possibility to extend into/throughout 2023 based on the amount of integration work

Top Skills' Details

• Understand some portion of the Studio business
• 1-2 Title & Rights Management BA
• 1-2 Distribution BA – work orders sent to vendor, customer profile, content processing, delivery, packaging, metadata to serve the work order
• 1 Participation Residuals BA
• 1 Salesforce BA – must know Salesforce, they have a lot of functions on the Salesforce platform (title acquisition, sales, and some of the distribution). Knows how to test Salesforce product knows/knows a little bit of a Salesforce. The industry knowledge is around sales, Intellectual Property acquisition or distribution.)
• 1-2 Studio Finance (SAP - not too technical but understands how to navigate)

Job Description

The client needs someone to understand the impact of the integrations and test the work with the users so the users can run their side of the test for the changes the technical team is making. With this integration work, the systems will not only be going through the Amazon process (security, onboarding, etc.), but they are making changes along the way.

The BA must be technical enough to dig into the issues they see and figure out whether it is a system issue or maybe a data issue. They need to at least be able to speak to the issues they find to the developers so they can help them figure it out.

The candidate will support the new product development as well as the day-to-day maintenance of various studio technology products. The candidate must possess strong communication skills and analytical skills to effectively work with the business users to determine requirements and translate them into technical solutions. The candidate must excel in a team environment and must have the ability to independently complete individual tasks in a dynamic environment to achieve departmental and company goals.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience as business analyst and/or system analyst
• Familiar with SDLC (software development life cycle) and Agile methodology
• Proficient with MS Office products, specifically advanced Visio, PowerPoint, and Excel skills
• Understanding of Entertainment industry and content lifecycle
• Experience with Studio process and/or technology solutions such as title/catalog management, contract and deal management, avails, media asset management, work order management, content processing and delivery, B2B or B2C portals and OTT
• Familiar with Agile tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Experience in creating, maintaining, and supporting all application development artifacts including user stories, process flows, screen mockups, data diagrams, business rule definitions, design documents and reporting scripts
• Strong analytical and system design skills, and problem-solving skills, with a track record of seeing tasks through to successful completion.
• Highly responsive with strong interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills
• Comfort working in a technical environment and able to clearly communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently, prioritize and juggle multiple deadlines and projects while keeping peers, partners, and supervisor abreast of activities
• Self-motivated, accountable, highly organized and can prioritize in a fast-paced environment
• Bachelor's Degree or above in computer science or engineering preferred

Responsibilities:

• Work as a strategic partner of the business
  • Be the liaison between business and technology
  • Keep alignment with business groups on strategic vision and business priorities
  • Understand technology capabilities required to support business needs
  • Develop and maintain technology roadmap to support business
• Define business process and requirements
  • Lead business meetings/interviews to understand business process, issues, and requirements. Create user stories, process modeling and data flow diagrams.
  • Drive innovations and efficiency by implementing new business process through technology solutions
  • Work closely with architect and developers to translate business requirements into technology design and solution
  • Participate in sprint planning and other project activities required by Agile software development methodology
• Design, testing and training
  • Define business rules, wireframes, and system functions
  • Work closely with the business community and testing team to define and execute system testing. Lead user acceptance testing of applications to ensure the quality of the delivered requirements and overall health of the system
  • Create user manuals and/or training documents. Conduct user trainings and drive smooth and efficient implementation of changes
• Production Support
  • Support business users on system configuration, admin, and other business activities
  • Identify system issues. Trouble shoot and analyze potential solutions including workaround
  • Work with business users to document, manage and prioritize bug fixings and enhancements
  • Work with architect and developers to test and release new system functions

With a tradition of producing some of Hollywood's most beloved films at the core of its business, they have evolved into an integrated and diversified modern media company. Its numerous operations now encompass film production, television programming, interactive entertainment, music, animation, licensing, and more, with each division contributing to the continued growth and success of the company.