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position: senior business analyst (production support)location: remote east coastjob type: direct hire job descriptionthe sr. business analyst elicits, analyzes, specifies, and validates the needs of business stakeholders. this includes understanding, documenting, and evaluating business processes through interviewing stakeholders. the sr. business analyst elicits, gathers compiles and documents user requirements and translates them into functional requirements for technology solutions with an eye to improving processes and systems, enhancing their sustainability, and delivering maximum return on investment. the sr. business analyst must have a thorough understanding of the business, functional, and technical aspects of the applications used within the portfolio they support. core responsibilitiesevaluate business processes anticipating requirements, uncovering areas for improvement, and eliciting requirements for change.lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies.conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods.prepare business cases which define potential benefits, options for achievingthese benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks.assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate this back to the business stakeholders.prepare effort estimation.perform requirements analysis. document and communicate the results of the analysis.translate business requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developersthe project team.analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards.develop and utilize standard templates to accurately and concisely write requirements specifications.create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to business owner(s), developers andor the project team.develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted.select, adopt and adapt appropriate business analysis methods, tools and techniques; selecting appropriately from predictive (plan-driven) approaches or adaptive (iterativeagile) approaches.collaborate with stakeholders at all levels, conducting of investigations for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.provide leadership, training, coaching, and guidance to junior staff.collaborate with its teams and business partners to evaluate and prioritize work.triage and analyze incidents and problems. provide clear analysis results including business impact.assist test analyst(s) with testing duties as necessary.on-call andor after-hours work required.essential competenciesprofessionalismpersonal accountability, collaboration and teamwork, communication, flexible and adapts to change, service to customers and clients skill qualificationsrequired:proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology developmentexceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skillsability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutionsexcellent documentation skillsfundamental analytical and conceptual thinking skillsexperience creating detailed reports and giving presentationsexcellent planning, organizational, and time management skillsability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly languageexceptional analytical and statistical skills with the ability to apply them to systems issues and products as requiredability to translate business requirements of packaged solutionsability to research and understand packaged solution upgrades both minor and major. translates the technical upgrade documentation into business terms the end-user can understand to make decision on. makes recommendation on these upgrades.experience in in agile, waterfall, and hybrid environmentsunderstanding of application development and software development life cycle conceptseffectively participates in teams and moves the team toward completion of goalssystemstechnical knowledge:basic technical understanding of the digital platform, cloud applications, web services, server-side components and apisdata analysis skills including ability to perform ad hoc sql queriescompetency in microsoft applications including word, excel, powerpoint visio and outlook education and experience qualifications required:bs or ba with emphasis in computer science, information systems or business administration7-10 or more years related work experience as a business analystpreferred:certification of competency in business analysis (ccba) andor certified business analysis professions (cbap) preferred

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<<summaryhighly motivated sales associate with extensive customer service and sales experience. outgoing sales professional with track record of driving increased sales, improving buying experience and elevating company profile with target market. skills machine learning/data mining & nlp - linear regression, neural networks/deep learning, naive bayes, svm, logistic regression,decision trees, k-mean, knn, n- grams, edit distance, gradient descentstatistical programming & packages - r, python, numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn, pandas, ggplot2, shiny, dplyr, caret, e1071,kerasbusiness intelligence & visualization - tableau, qlik view, qlik sense, excel, obieehadoop ecosystem components - spark, hive, sqoop, flume, kafka, impaladatabases - oracle, mysql, postgresqloracle erp & fusion middleware - oracle e-business suite 11i & r12, oracle soa, oracle service busother languages & tools - /sql, core java, scala, rstudio, jupyter, sqldeveloper, toad, atomcertifications - tableau, sql & pl/sql experience data science & data engineer intern, 01/2017-presentenvestnet– ,working on big data ingestion using sqoop for transferring data from multiple mysql database servers to transient storage in amazon emr hcatalog and using hive to transfer data to persistent storage in amazon s3 bucket -> developing sqoop and hive scripts for data ingestion -> using r and spark in amazon emr for filtering, exploring, analyzing, providing insights on data and developing reports.oracle technical consultant & data analyst, 02/2013- 07/2016first american corporation–city. -hoc requests , reporting and for analyzing large data sets -> designed er diagrams, conceptual models, logical and physical models, created database objects - tables, indexes, sequences and views -> developed oracle business intelligence reports, created and modified oracle database objects - tables, views and indexes which increased the performance of oracle business intelligence reports by 60% in production environment -> prepared sql.loader scripts for loading data from other systems into oracle erp system, worked with on-site business team in performing data fixes -> created pl/sql interfaces for doing business validation, transferring data between erp modules and loading data to base tables.data analyst intern, 11/2012- 01/2013cmc limited–city.indiagt; developed sql scripts, worked on oracle 11i database and oracle reports. education and trainingmaster of science:information systems,expected inaugust 2017-university of utah, david eccles school of business-salt lake city,utahgpa:status-information systems data science and analytics specialization -> recipient of $15,000 graduate fellowship from david eccles school of business academic capstone project - big data -> building statistical regression and classification models, cleaning, exploring data and developing interactive web interface using r shiny, which helps the company to classify clients loan type and predicting the amount of loan they will take in future kaggle - house prices predictions -> applied different machine learning simple and advanced models on housing predictors for predicting the sales prices of houses, used imputation methods for filling missing and null values in the data set independent study & research - apache spark using scala and python rajeev gandhi memorial college of engineering and technology indiabachelor of science:computer science and engineering,expected inmay 2012--,gpa:status-computer science and engineering designed `hand draw shape recognition' interface which helps the user to invoke desired application just by drawing the shape, , apache, big data, business intelligence, draw, clients, data mining, databases, database, e-business, edit, erp, filling, drawing, java, machine learning, excel, middleware, mysql, nlp, networks, neural, oracle, /sql, postgresql, programming, python, reporting, research, sales, servers, scripts, sql loader, tableau, tables, toad, type, validation, view.