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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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<<experience 10/2019to 06/2019data analystangi homeservices inc.– ,built an end to end analytics-based solution for animal shelters to verify optimality of current capacity, with a vision to deliver recommendations to improve animal outcomes and health in the future.created a cloud-based (aws/flask/html) ui to source animal shelter data & present optimal solution.utilized delphi method to generate synthetic data (for missing values) using information from animal experts.leveraged sql/python to pre-process and optimize animal shelter data.dealt with a tricky client, with unclear outcomes (and impacted by covid-19 times) - yet delivered a complete, extendable analytics/ ui solution.predicted the outcome of animals with 73% accuracy, based on characteristics of the animals at the time of intake. 01/2019to 06/2019analystameresco–half moon bay.indtraders of import export licenses in india, operationalized and negotiated the prices/rate of various meis/seis by predicting the price of the meis/seis licenses using time-series analysis and supervised machine learning model, resulting in savings of inr 1,000.created a new billing system from scratch to increase efficiency and reduce time spent in creating bills using excel, vlookup, hlookup and formulas, which resulted in time spent in creating bills reducing by 50. 06/2018to 09/2018analyst internspencer stuart–chicago.indalthough junior, quickly earned responsibility for creation of data architecture & automation for bse's mutual funds.processed 1 million+ weekly transactions to enable audits, executive reporting - presented to cxos weekly. education expected injuly 2018totobachelor of engineering:information technologyuniversity of mumbai, vidyalankar institute of technology-mumbai,gpa:expected injunetotomaster of science:business analyticsuniversity of california-san francisco,cagpa: summarya motivated data enthusiast with 5+ years of sql and data analysis experience, 3+ years of object-oriented programming experience and 2+ years of python and r experience. self-taught machine learning and big data and applied to various settings by taking 3 coursera courses, 3 udacity courses, 2 udemy courses and am an aws certified cloud practitioner. motivated to make a difference and hence currently analyzing publicly available animal shelter data. highlightstools: sql, python, jupyter notebook, flask, r, tableau, spark, mongodb, excel, html, mapreduceskills: a/b testing, data analysis, database management, data mining, data visualization, hypothesis testing, modeling, machine learning, statistical analysis, dashboardsautomationbilling systemclientdata analysisdata miningdata visualizationdatabase managementdelphifundshtmlmachine learningexcelmodelingmongodbpythonreportingsqlstatistical analysistableauvision skills tools: sql, python, jupyter notebook, flask, r, tableau, spark, mongodb, excel, html, mapreduceskills: a/b testing, data analysis, database management, data mining, data visualization, hypothesis testing, modeling, machine learning, statistical analysis, dashboards,automation, billing system, client, data analysis, data mining, data visualization, database management, delphi, funds, html, machine learning, excel, modeling, mongodb, python, reporting, sql, statistical analysis, tableau, vision.