Sr. Business Analyst Job in Marlborough 01752, Massachusetts US

Apex Systems, a national technical staffing organization, has multiple openings in Marlborough, MA for Technical Business Analysts on a direct hire basis.  The salary range is between 80-115K depending on experience and skill level, with full benefits.  If interested, please send a Word resume to bnelson@apexsystemsinc.com. 

The Senior Business Analyst is the key liaison between a high profile client and the Technology Teams. This is a highly visible position, as the Senior Business Analyst elicits and drives requirements and initiatives at multiple levels of detail for client(s). The Senior Business Analyst should have a strong attention to detail and is entrusted with accurately documenting requirements and acceptance criteria for a project.  The SR Business Analyst must have experience working on custom application and/or database projects.  Any experience with Business Intelligence tools, and/or SQL Server, is a huge plus.

Position Responsibilities:

Interface with the client and multi-disciplinary teams within client’s (Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Database and Data Warehouse Developers, Project Managers) to support the solution delivery process

·     Synthesize complex and contradictory information into concise, readable, unambiguous written requirements at multiple levels of detail

·     Take primary ownership for written requirements specifications, from initial creation, through change management and solution delivery

·     Take direction from Project Management regarding schedule, scope, and cost tradeoffs

·     Assist with the delivery of the system into production by designing and supporting the formal client acceptance process, according to client’s defined standards

·     Accurately document requirements and acceptance criteria

·     Perform analysis of new data for inclusion in a marketing database, and ad-hoc analysis of data in the database to support the requirements process

Required Skills

·     Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

·     5+ years experience with writing detailed requirements specifications for IT solution delivery with a significant database component or database focus - consisting of at least 100 distinct enumerated requirements

·     5+ years experience as a business requirements analyst with full lifecycle software implementations (SDLC) involving large databases

 

Preferred

·     Experience with Marketing preferred, especially: Database Marketing, Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Interactive Marketing

·     Experience with test planning and use cases

·     Skilled with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project and Visio

·     SQL experience to conduct basic data analysis

·     Experience as an end-user with BI tools such as SAS, Business Objects, Cognos, etc.

·     Experience as an end-user with Campaign tools such as Unica, Alterian, etc.

·     Ability to thrive in a complex environment and rapidly master complex data structures

·     Exhibits intense curiosity, to dig beneath the superficial and identify facts