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Business Analyst
Allstate
Irving, TX, United States
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Job Description
Allstate’s Enterprise Shared Services Robotics Process Automation Delivery Center is seeking an Agile Specialist Business Analyst. This role guides development efforts for Agile projects while representing business interests throughout. Primary responsibilities include writing user stories, managing requirements reprioritization, and co-designing solutions with business partners, in addition to core business analyst responsibilities.
Core Business Analyst Responsibilities
• Manage requirements elicitation, analysis and documentation processes to capture business and end user needs.
• Develop business process flows.
• Reengineer business processes for robot efficiency.
• Prioritize needs within and across projects based on business impact.
• Support business case creation.
• Communicate solution tradeoffs to business partners to frame and influence project decisions.
• Engage delivery teams to communicate solution vision and priorities.
• Promote architectural standards and consistency.
• Assess the risks of solution options and develop plans to mitigate them.
• Support organizational change management.
• Provide consultative support and advice on RPA projects.
Specialized Agile Responsibilities
• Document requirements as user stories.
• Partner with business stakeholders and product owners to manage requirements reprioritization processes throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Use co-design and prototyping approaches to design and iterate on high-value solutions.
• Participate in ongoing meetings to support project delivery, including team stand-ups, solution show-and-tells, and sprint planning.
• Participate in other delivery activities (e.g., testing, coding) as required in collaboration with other delivery team members to support solution delivery objectives.
• Serve as a champion for Agile methods across the delivery team and organization.
Job Description
• Ability to adapt and respond to change
• Understanding of business context and objectives
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in plain language
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Attention to detail
• Ability to quantify resource requirements and measure and communicate proposed project benefits
• Risk assessment, negotiation, and problem resolution skills
• Influencing skills and demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes
• Verbal and written communication skills
Job Qualifications
• 3+ years’ Business Analysis experience
• 1+ years’ experience working on a project using Agile methods.
• Experience with Blue Prism RPA software a plus
• Experience with other RPA software preferred
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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