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*MUST BE ELIGIBLE TO WORK W2*

*MUST BE WILLING TO TRAVEL (up to 25% of the time)*

Description

Seeking an experienced Business Analyst to join team supporting a strategic workplace benefits program. Successful candidate will have proven experience in providing business and process analysis expertise to Agile development teams. Successful candidate will serve as a liaison between the business and technology while also serving as a backup to the Product Owner and Scrum Master as needed. Successful candidate will be comfortable supporting technical work sessions, design flow-diagrams, and architecture designs using SparX EA and/or MS Visio.

Candidate is able to work remotely from home on EST hours; however, must also be willing to travel for onsite meetings as needed. Travel is likely for all PI planning events but will occur outside of this on occasion as well.

Client Job Summary: The Business Analyst will provide process analysis skills to an Agile development team. The responsibility of the Business Analyst position is to be a liaison between the business and IT as well as possessing the ability to back up the Product Owner. They will participate in a broader Agile program interfacing with other PO’s and program level participants. Additional they will be responsible for the delivery objectives of the engineering development team.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required

• 6 – 8 years’ experience as a Business Analyst (including requirements development) required

• Previous experience as a Product Owner in an Agile project is a plus

• 2-4 years of group and voluntary experience is preferred

• Ability to design flow-diagrams/architecture designs using MS Visio or SparX is required

• JIRA software experience a significant plus

• Solid understanding of project management techniques/methodologies

• Competent use of Microsoft Office applications to include Microsoft Project, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Access required

• Capability to multitask and work on a variety of projects and teams is essential

• Ability to assume project management role as necessary

• Ability to perform ScrumMaster (SM) duties for agile development team required

• Ability to lead backlog grooming, estimation & retrospective meetings

• Lean-Agile experience a plus

• Ability to comfortably communicate with multiple levels of employees throughout the organization with minimal supervision

• Previous experience with the EIS core software is a significant plus

General Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working with the SME’s and Business Owners in defining stories and prioritizing the Team Backlog to streamline the execution of program priorities, while maintaining conceptual and technical integrity of the features executed by the team

• Works closely with Product Management to prepare for PI Planning

• During PI Planning the BA is involved with story definition, providing clarifications necessary to assist the team with their story estimates and story sequencing, and drafting the team's specific objectives for the upcoming Program Increment.

• Backlog refinement - With input from System Architect/Engineering and other stakeholders, the Product Owner has the primary responsibility of building, pruning, and maintaining the team backlog.

• The BA may also participate in the preparation of the PI System Demo to make sure that they will be able to show the most critical aspects of the solution to the stakeholders.

• Coordinates real world testing and exploratory testing activities, works closely with business on executing testing activities

• Utilizing key stakeholders and SMEs, research, facilitate discussions, analyze, and evaluate options and for presentation to management.

• Create and deliver through the full sign off, target state process flows, business requirements, user stories, process, and tools by working with Key Stakeholders to elicit information and gain agreement.

• Understand the target vision and communicate that vision to stakeholders, particularly when conflict arises.

• Assist in the prioritizing of backlog and capabilities.

• Serve as the primary liaison between business and technical stakeholders where technical capabilities are being developed, particularly where alignment is needed on future direction.

• Assist with end-to-end testing and identification of defects before migration to production.

• Make informed recommendations on how the business should best utilize technical capabilities under development.

• Provides oversight, including Scrum Master & project management, to cross functional changes that includes both process and system changes.

• Manage project tasks or parts of the project plan assigned within scope, quality and timeframe allocated with minimal supervision

• Identify, evaluate, and track progress of project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating them appropriately with suggested mitigating actions and implementing as directed.

• Deputize as ScrumMaster, unless one is assigned to the team in which the BA would serve as a backup SM

• Maintain and develop knowledge of project methodologies and a professional network of contacts, sharing knowledge and best practice where appropriate to support continuous improvement

• Where role includes management of project resources, coaching, training & development, and performance management of resources may be required.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Excellent communication. Ability to interface with all levels of leadership within an enterprise regardless of role, function, responsibility.

Experience Level

Intermediate Level

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $50.00 - $60.00/hr.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a hybrid position in Fort Wayne,IN.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on May 30, 2025.

About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services

We’re a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We’re a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We’re strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We’re building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.