Sr. Business Systems Analyst

Job Code 08-076

Position Summary:

The Senior Business Systems Analyst is the individual who has the primary responsibility to elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the real needs of the project stakeholders, including customers and end users while taking the needs of all users of the system into account. The Business Systems Analyst should have a broad knowledge of the organization, and should understand how the company works from a variety of perspectives. The senior business systems analyst serves as the conduit between the customer community and the development teams through which requirements flow.

The Business Systems Analyst is involved throughout the entire system or development life cycle. Upon establishment of the requirements baseline from Product Management, the focus is shifted towards the management of the requirements specification and verifying the fulfillment of all requirements.

Business Systems Analysts are responsible for coordinating the work of many engineers, each of whom is an expert in one part of a system. By providing a systems (holistic) view of the development effort, Business Systems Analysts help meld all the technical contributors into a unified team effort, forming a structured development process that proceeds from concept to production to operation and, in some cases, to termination and disposal. This will include a view of the entire system from Information Systems, Hardware, Firmware, and Software.

Essential Responsibilities Include:

· Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, storyboards, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, event lists, business analysis, competitive product analysis, task and workflow analysis, and/or viewpoints.

· Write requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.

· Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those who must base their work on the requirements.

· Define quality attributes, external interfaces, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements.

· Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams), prototypes, or scenarios, where appropriate.

· Participate in requirements prioritization.

· Participate in peer reviews and inspections of requirements documents. Participate in peer reviews of work products derived from requirements specifications to ensure that the requirements were interpreted correctly.

· Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the project.

· Manage changes to baselined requirements through effective application of change control processes and tools.

· Establish and implement effective requirements practices, including use and continuous improvement of a requirements process. Assist with the development of the organization’s requirements engineering policies, procedures, and tools.

· Implement ways to reuse requirements across projects.

Desired Skills/Qualifications

· Interviewing skills, to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to surface essential requirements information

· Listening skills, to understand what people say and to detect what they might be hesitant to say

· Analytical skills, to critically evaluate the information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a more general understanding, distinguish presented user requests from the underlying true needs, and distinguish solution ideas from requirements

· Facilitation skills, to lead requirements elicitation workshops

· Observational skills, to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation

· Writing skills, to communicate information effectively to customers, marketing, managers, and technical staff

· Organizational skills, to work with the vast array of information gathered during elicitation and analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information

· Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities and to resolve conflicts among project stakeholders (such as customers, product management, and engineering)

· Modeling skills, to represent requirements information in graphical forms that augment textual representations in natural language, including using modeling languages already established in the development organization

· An understanding of contemporary requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice

· Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products are positioned and developed

· Knowledge of Agile Development Methodologies and User Story Creation

· Software UI Design Experience and Plus

Experience/Education Required/Desired

· Requires Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Computer Science / Business / Mathematics or a related field.

· 7 or more years of relevant experience in business analysis, product management, or engineering

To apply for this position email your resume (in Word format preferred) to jobs@drivecam.com.  Please include job title and job code in the subject line.  DriveCam is an Equal Opportunity Employer.