Lead Business Analyst (Remote)

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is seeking a Lead Business Analyst to ensure that business needs for changes to processes, policies, and information systems are effectively identified and documented. The role involves leading the gathering and synthesizing of business requirements for high complexity software and serving as a strategic conduit between business areas and technical teams.

Responsibilities:

• Interprets business needs and issues by gathering, eliciting, creating, analyzing, documenting and validating the Business areas user and/or technical (functional/non-functional) requirements
• Key contributor in the creation of project plans to define, organize and schedule requirements management and development activities
• Provides oversight and strategic direction to lower level analysts which includes coaching, mentoring, and delegating of tasks and deliverables
• Facilitates requirements analysis and verification sessions
• Accountable in the tracking and management of open issues and assists in planning for resolution
• Responsible for successful development sessions and design reviews in order to ensure design meets user requirements
• Responsible for overall success of user acceptance testing, including documentation, verification and release
• Implements practices and procedures for end user test plans
• Identifies and documents gaps in requirement adherence or system deficiencies/defects and coordinates appropriate action through issue resolution
• Leads in creating formal communication to be delivered to relevant stakeholders
• Providing guidance and training to application end users
• Identifies, documents and troubleshoots problems with their in-depth knowledge of the relationships in systems, software and processes
• Collaborate with appropriate stakeholders to monitor, report and resolve issues
• Participates in the development of solutions and workarounds that solve high complexity technical, system and/or business issues
• Reviews, analyzes and creates detailed documentation of business systems, processes, software and user needs
• Responsible for writing all documentation to established standards, in a clear and well organized manner
• Develops and/or collaborates in key project and requirement deliverables for projects of high complexity
• Monitors and reports project status to identify and mitigate risks and to ensure quality and timely deliverables
• Coordinates assigned projects from concept through implementation
• Prioritize and manage new work requests
• Answers policy-related questions for business process, systems and software which require research and consultation with others internally and externally

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Business Management, Finance or related field OR in lieu of a Bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience
• 8 years progressive experience in business analysis, systems analysis, testing or other analytical experience
• Strong time-management and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Ability to organize stakeholder meetings
• Use of Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to train and mentor others
• Master's Degree MBA
• Demonstrated ability to have led the deliver of high quality, effective deliverables on-time and be a significant contributor to the development of cost-effective solutions
• Expert understanding of business analysis core competencies
• Prior business analysis coaching and mentoring experience
• Facets Technical Flows