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Business Analyst
Equifax
St. Louis, MO, United States
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The Business Analyst will work with clients (business unit or any related stake holder) to create solutions that meet their requirements and parallels overall business strategy.
This position is an exciting opportunity for candidates who are highly motivated to succeed, fast learners, passionate about solving problems, and team players. Successful candidates will possess effective communication, ability to perform structured qualitative and quantitative analysis, attention to detail, and ability to resolve complex business problems. This includes the ability to consult with customers on functional related aspects of design, project delivery and support. This position requires technical understanding and abilities to support complex systems.
The Business Analyst will actively coordinate and maintain the interaction between the Product Development (PD) team and the client. This person is responsible for ensuring solutions created by PD meet client's current needs, and for evolving solutions over time as the client's needs change. The Business Analyst may provide technical project management and collaborate with Web Services, project managers, architects, developers, database administrators, operations, and Quality Assurance in the design and implementation of systems. He/she will also ensure Equifax standards are maintained for system design, scalability, performance, and technical features, as well as provide mentoring for the Associate Business Analysts.
Duties and Responsibilities
• Ability to work in an Agile environment
• Communicate project status to client, Product Development management, and other project stake holders proactively and on a regular basis
• Be proactive about identifying and resolving issues, and take a leadership role in problem resolution
• Facilitate and lead specification meetings to clarify client system requirements and to develop a functional design that satisfies all client requirements
• Act as the business unit's advocate in Product Development
• Meet defined business unit and other stakeholder deadlines for all tasks on assigned projects
• Develop and maintain positive and profitable relationships with clientsIdentify out of scope requests and work with clients to determine an appropriate resolution
• Identify risks of development efforts and proactively minimize the impact
• Be responsible for client and other stake holder satisfaction in the functional and technical performance of systems, and actively work to track and resolve any issues
• Provide clients with ongoing support for applications
• Collaborate with Web Services, developers, database administrators, operations and quality assurance in the design of all assigned systems, maintaining EWS design and development standards
• Lead project team meetings and other project related events (requirements reviews, specification reviews, etc)
• Maintain the highest level of integrity, courtesy, respect, and professionalism while interacting with clients, project team members, EWS employees, and business contacts
• Utilize Time Reporting, System Development tools and other professional tools as assigned by management and within prescribed timeframes
• Coordinate and perform unit and integration testing
• Keep team knowledge base updated with current information, including all product documentation (user guides, system architecture diagrams, error documents, project documents, etc.)
• Work with team members to develop accurate and realistic project milestones and timelines while at the same time working to fulfill any client specific timeframe needs and/or expectations
• Support and maintenance of existing applications as needed
• Keep knowledge of project management, SDLC methodology, and EWS technologies current
• Stay abreast of current best practices in systems analysis and design
• Encourage team work
• Other duties as assigned
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Management of Information Systems or Computer Science
• 2 years of experience as a Business Analyst
• Experience working in an Agile environment
Primary Location:USA-St. Louis-Lackland
Function:Function - IT Development and Client Services
Schedule:Full time