Senior Business Analyst (Contract, Remote)

As a Senior Business Analyst, you'll be responsible for gathering, understanding, analyzing, and creating different types of business requirements, designing and implementing IT solutions, complex business process optimization, communicating with stakeholders, and keeping up with the latest trends and technologies. This position plays a vital role in bridging the gap between the different business units and the technical personnel within a project team and helping the company achieve its goals.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth analysis for complex business-optimization projects across different independent departments 
• Translate business ideas into clearly structured requirements: formalization, documentation, and visualization of requirements
• Interact with businesses and developers from the design stage to implementation, quality control to project closure
• Communicate with stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, including gathering and prioritizing requirements, communicating progress, and managing expectations
• Analyzing data and providing results using Excel / Google Sheets / Power BI / SQL (nice to have)
• Developing and maintaining the documentation
• Being involved in multiple projects at the same time
• Identify and assess risks associated with proposed solutions
• Stay up to date on the latest trends and technologies in the IT industry
• Participate in the supplier selection process, evaluating the usefulness and cost of products and making appropriate recommendations

Skills:

• Ability to effectively guide BA activities across all delivery phases (e.g., elicitation, requirements management, etc.)
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, in both written and oral forms
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner
• Effective problem-solver, with great analytical skills and attention to detail
• Ability to accurately assess project/business analysis risks

Requirements:

• Strong research and analytical skills are a must
• In-depth experience in process analysis and optimization 
• Experience in requirement gathering, business process modeling, and gap analysis.
• 4+ years of experience in a similar role
• B2+ level of English
• Certification in business analysis, such as the Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) certification will be a plus
• Experience in working with Agile methodologies on large-scale projects and managing multiple projects simultaneously
• Expertise in creating and describing different types of requirements (e.g., business, user, system, transition requirements, etc.)
• Experience with RnD projects, understanding of the complexities and processes of developing these solutions
• Advanced knowledge of requirements management tools
• Experience with RnD projects, understanding of the complexities and processes of developing these solutions
• Experience with integrating different IT systems and applications
• Knowledge and ability to use UML and BPMN modeling
• A BS or MS degree in business, IT, or a related field will be a plus
• Experience with cloud platforms, big data technologies, and AI will be a plus

We offer:

• Opportunity to work on great innovative and transforming projects;
• Professional development;
• Competitive compensation in USD;
• Professional, friendly, fast-growing team;
• Reduced Fridays during summer.

Work schedule - Monday to Friday from 1:00 PM till 9:00 PM EET.