Northwestern Memorial Hospital is committed to delivering world-class care and innovation in medicine. The Business Analyst role involves leading the development of business requirements and facilitating collaboration with business operations to ensure effective project outcomes.
Responsibilities:
- Must be able to demonstrate ability to fulfill responsibilities of the Business Analyst Associate
- Identify and document emerging business requirements
- Intelligently question business partner and knowledge worker preferences to identify unique value drivers
- Properly prioritizes business lines and enterprise demands
- Accurately translates business requirements into functionality
- Manages requirements to meet performance expectations
- Understands industry-specific trends that impact the organization
- Clearly articulates benefits in business language
- Manage ambiguity and create accurate project effort estimates
- Accurately quantifies project-specific risks through the development lifecycle
- Identifies solution interdependencies
- Stays abreast of and creates awareness of technology developments related to business requirements
- Identify commonalities and suggests a consistent approach across projects in the absence of standards
- Guide team decision making
- Provide stakeholders with accurate view of challenges
- Effectively navigate conflict between multiple stakeholders
- Shares best practices, process, and environmental knowledge
Requirements:
- 2 years of Information Technology, business analysis specific experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Word, Access, Exchange, Excel, Project and VISIO
- Knowledge of system architecture and application portfolio
- Knowledge of requirements management and/or prototyping tools (ALM, Jira, RallyDev, qTest, iRise)
- Ability to simplify & standardize complex concepts and/or processes
- Project management skills
- Requirements definition and management through different delivery methodologies
- SDLC, Iterative, Agile, OWF, and /or Scrum development
- Problem solving and/or analytical thinking
- Possess ability to manage workload, and manage multiple priorities, as applicable
- Excellent written and verbal communications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Information Technology or related IT field
- Business process management and modeling
- BA Certification
- Experience working for Healthcare Provider
- Epic Certification