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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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<<professional summaryenergetic data engineer in developing robust code for high-volume businesses. strong decision-maker with 6 years of experience in data engineering and help firms in designing and executing solutions for complex business problems involving large scale data warehousing, real-time analytics and reporting solutions. ability to translate business questions and concerns into specific quantitative questions that can be answered with available data using sound methodologies. skills python 3.x, r, sqlhadoop, apache sparkhive, pig, kafka, sqoop, oozieteradata, snowflakeamazon s3,emr,lambdagit, jenkins, splunkms officemicrosoft visual c#.net education the university of texas at dallasrichardson,txexpected in4 2020––master of science:business analytics-gpa: work history avanade- , 04/2020-currentcombining data from multiple source systems (profile, systematics, etc.) and multiple platforms (snowflake, onelake, hubs) and computing canonical gold-star metrics “once and for all” to cut operational costs.develop spark jobs to transform data and apply business transformation rules to load/process data across enterprise and application specific layers.experience in building/operating/maintaining fault tolerant and scalable data processing integrations using aws.configured s3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data based on requirement.good working experience on submitting the spark jobs which shows the metrics of the data which is used for data quality checking.working on building efficient data pipelines that transform high volume data into a format used for analytical, fraud prevention and ml use cases.extensively used splunk search processing language (spl) queries, reports, alerts and dashboards.excellent knowledge of source control management concepts such as branching, merging, /tagging and integration, with tool like git.performing data quality checks like row count, schema validation, hash key validation for all data movement between applications.avanade- , 08/2019- 04/2020responsible for designing and developing various analytical solutions for gaining analytical insights into large data sets by ingesting and transforming these datasets in the big data environment using technologies like spark, sqoop, oozie, hive.scheduling jobs to automate the process for regular executing jobs worked on using oozie.developed oozie workflow schedulers to run multiple hive and pig jobs that run independently with time and data availability.familiar with data architecture including data ingestion pipeline design, hadoop information architecture, data modeling and data mining,machine learning and advanced data processing.all the projects which i have worked for are open source projects and has been tracked using jira.parallel copying of files between various clusters using distcp, kafka in hadoop.ascend learning- , 09/2018- 12/2018acquire, clean, integrate, analyze and interpret disparate datasets using a variety of statistical data analysis and data visualization methodologies, reporting and authoring findings where appropriate.developed linear mixed effects models for boston ed-fi dataset to estimate the teacher contribution to the student test scores.random intercept model which utilized a pre-post-test design and included fixed effects for student demographics and a growth model where students were nested by time (random slope and intercept) and teacher was tested.generated various clustering models for entire west virginia department of education and evaluated cluster’s performance.verizon-big data engineer. 01/2014- 07/2017identify customer's digital analytical needs and engage with customer and principal architects daily, understand the business requirements for big data analytical solutions and break down large scale requirements into detailed system specifications.moving data to hdfs framework using sqoop from teradata, sql server.good working experience on hadoop tools related to data warehousing like hive, pig and also involved in extracting the data from these tools on to the cluster using sqoop.solved performance issues in hive with understanding of joins, groups, bucketing, partitions and working on them using hiveql.deployed programs written in pyspark to run spark mllib, for analytics and reduced customers churn rate by 25%. skills python 3.x, r, sqlhadoop, apache sparkhive, pig, kafka, sqoop, oozieteradata, snowflakeamazon s3,emr,lambdagit, jenkins, splunkms officemicrosoft visual c#.net.