Business Analyst III

What You ll Do

Strategy and business analytics - 5%

Provide input to Business Case documentation.

Partner with Portfolio Analyst for deep understanding of business objectives and outcome desired

Understand business KPIs and metrics that deliver value

Stakeholder management and understanding - 30%

Effectively manages stakeholder engagement and communication with executives within and across value streams.

Obtain a solid understanding of relevant business area(s)

Elicit requirements based upon product vision and knowledge which might include:

o Documenting automations and calculations

o Diagramming detailed process flows

o Mapping data and system flows

o Building permission matrices

o Creating data dictionaries

Use a variety of techniques to understand business requirements, such as: interviews, workshops, surveys, site visits, and storyboards.

Performs &/or leads analysis to identify gaps in current & future state to realize objectives within value stream & multiple initiative.

Delivery and Execution 60%

Create user stories which contain necessary details for development teams to build and quality assurance teams to test against within a workstream.

Facilitate story refinement sessions with delivery team members.

Generate use cases to assist in the breakdown and sequencing of user stories.

Translate conceptual user requirements into clear, detailed functional requirements.

Maintaining a prioritized backlog with multiple sprints worth of stories

Support delivery teams as they develop, test, and deploy solutions.

Independently runs UAT.

Measurement and Improvement - 5%

Manage user acceptance testing to ensure that the value expected is met with the solution.

Review delivery team output to ensure requirements are correctly interpreted.

Other Responsibilities

Responsible for upholding F5 s Business Code of Ethics and for promptly reporting violations of the Code or other company policies.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

What You ll Bring

• Experience working in a large scaled Agile environment, particularly familiar with Scrum practices.
• Strong understanding of Azure DevOps (ADO) (preferred), Trello, Jira, Rally, or similar
• Experience determining the explicit and implicit needs and requirements of various stakeholders.
• Ability to quickly learn the objectives, structures, operations and policies of a new business area.
• Strong communication, problem resolution, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to engage both developers and business partners to achieve target outcomes.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Strong elicitation skills, design-thinking acumen, a solid base of business understanding, and an awareness of technology/system development methodologies.
• Hard and soft skills and flexibility to accommodate evolving stakeholder needs.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in business analysis or product management disciplines, including:

o Business rules analysis

o Current-state analysis

o Gap analysis

o User story and scenario development

o UAT design and execution

o Business process modeling

o Decision analysis and modeling

o Root cause analysis