Sr Business Analyst (closed)

Cleveland, OH
Recruiter Comment: Sr Business Analyst needed for contract to hire oppty in Cleveland, OH with national company that offers great benefit package.
Job Description

Essential Functions 

Strategy and Planning

  • Analyze, document, and improve workflows, processes, and standards.
  • Facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
  • Create effective sitemaps and wireframes to facilitate the website design process. 

Acquisition and Deployment

  • Provide technical guidance concerning business implications of projects.
  • Gather business and functional requirements from clients and business users.
  • Lead post-project analysis to reflect upon successes, failures, and lessons learned.
  • Plan, develop, implement, and support new and existing applications in conjunction with users and developers.


Operational Management

  • Create and maintain system documentation.
  • Utilize existing systems to track and manage requests and issues.
  • Provide business reports to management and clients.
  • Analyze application defects to determine if they fall within scope of project requirements.
  • Work with the Quality Assurance to build and validate test cases against all requirements.
  • Train and teach other developers. 

Incidental Functions 

  • Provide support for critical web application problems and issues.
  • Prepare and lead presentations as requested.
  • Research or prototype new tools and/or technologies.
  • Provide training and documentation for supported applications.
  • Provide software expertise as a project resource.
  • Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
  • Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.

Position Requirements 

Formal Education & Certification

  • Bachelor degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

 Knowledge & Experience

  • 5-7 years related IT experience.
  • 5+ years working with internal clients and/or external agencies.
  • Knowledge of content management systems.
  • Well versed in Microsoft Office applications.
  • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, and J2EE.
  • Familiarity with web (W3C) and web accessibility (Section 508 and WAI) standards.
  • Understanding of SEO.
  • Understanding of various essential business functions of an organization.