Sr. Technical Business Analyst

Sr. Technical Business Analyst (Hybrid)

Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Sr. Technical Business Analyst for their Portland, Oregon location. This position supports the Project Management Office within the Information Technology organization. The IT PMO manages various IT initiatives for Corporate, Power, and Transmission business lines. Provide technical business analysis support for small to medium-size business technology proposals and projects within the IT PMO portfolio. Assignments are determined based on proposal or project needs and workload shifts. This position works closely with a variety of internal clients, stakeholders, vendors, technical subject matter experts, and others with varying degrees of technical understanding.

This hybrid position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If this opportunity is well-aligned with your experience and goals, we would love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities for Sr. Technical Business Analyst:

• Provide business analysis support and assistance, eliciting documents and managing requirements, to support the implementation of IT systems for a variety of internal clients implementing small to medium -sized projects, as per the organization’s established System Life Cycle (SLC) process.
• Recommend the artifacts and level of detail for the business analysis effort, i.e. the analysis objective which supplies the technical team with information that assists in planning a system build.
• Collaborate with senior or lead org analysts or manager in planning the requirements gathering and elicitation strategy (e.g. techniques to be used, appropriate for the project type and the stakeholders involved).
• Take ambiguous, high-level, and incomplete information about a business problem and synthesize it into a clear, concise scope statement.
• Provide technical teams with business requirements needed to select a technical approach to meet the business need.
• Coordinate and facilitate planning and working sessions to elicit customer requirements. Guide and assist client teams through defining business requirements.
• Conduct user/stakeholder interviews, potentially including job shadowing and “day in the life” exercises.
• Review regulations and policies to understand relevant compliance requirements and make recommendations.
• Analyze the gathered information to present an organized, coherent understanding of the business problem and the proposed solution.
• Analyze business processes and create current-state “as is” and future-state “to be” models, including conducting gap analyses.
• Establish and maintain bidirectional traceability from goals and objectives to detailed functional requirements.
• Decompose high-level information into details and abstract up from low-level information to present a complete picture of the business need and description of how the proposed solution meets that need.
• Collaborate with technical team representative, senior or lead analyst, or manager (as needed) to translate customer needs into product requirements in sufficient detail for technical teams to implement.
• Document detailed descriptions and specifications of user needs, business rules, functionality, and steps required to implement business solutions.
• Conduct collaborative exercises, e.g. user story mapping, to align users and technical teams on the meaning of requirements and the needed product.
• Draft a range of requirements documentation/artifacts, e.g. user stories, context diagrams, swim lane diagrams, non-functional requirements, as needed to define the solution.
• Collaborate with IT technical representative(s) in the development of test plans and acceptance criteria, traced to business and functional requirements. This work may include coordinating and facilitating test scenarios, User testing, etc.
• Elicit objective criteria from business users for the evaluation and acceptance of requirements.
• Present information effectively in a variety of formats, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, and Visio flowcharts.

Requirements/Qualifications for Sr. Technical Business Analyst:

• A bachelor’s degree in information technology/systems, business administration, or a closely related technical discipline is preferred.
• 7 years of experience is required with an applicable bachelor’s degree.
• 11 years of experience is required without a degree or applicable degree.
• Experience should be consistent with the specific requirements of technical business analysis and information technology and progressively more technical in nature
• Proficiency with Microsoft products, including Word, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook or similar.
• Technical interviewing skills that include:
• Functional/process interviewing in the business environment.
• The ability to facilitate groups through process design and requirements gathering sessions.
• Ability to communicate effectively with business and technical teams.
• Ability to develop and maintain effective client and stakeholder relationships.
• Strong technical writing skills and the ability to present information in various forms (verbally, in writing, visually, graphically).

**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**

About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc:
Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

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