Job Details
Description
Summary
The Business Integration Business Analyst II will coordinate the development of small to large scale projects from conception to implementation. This position will analyze, design, and document system requirements with business area(s) sponsoring the project. Acts as the liaison between business owners, technical analyst, IT and application vendors throughout the project.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Direct and manage development for small to large scale projects and ongoing enhancement requests.
- Track project deliverables using appropriate tools by identifying and managing project dependencies and critical path.
- Present reports defining project progress, risks, problems and solutions.
- Work directly with technical analysts, IT and application vendors to transform and develop design requirements throughout all phases of the project from system design to implementation.
- Analyze business processes and data to help determine how new technology can satisfy business needs.
- Under limited direction of management, project managers and/or senior team members work closely with technical analyst, IT and application vendor to transform and develop design requirements throughout all phases of the project from design to implementation.
- Organize and participate in design review sessions to gather business requirements for new projects, enhancements/improvements to existing functionality, and issue resolution.
- Elicit requirements through interviews, business analysis, workflow analysis and data analysis.
- Collaborate with business area and technical experts to establish the technical vision and analyze tradeoffs between usability and performance needs.
- Drive and challenge business units on their assumptions of how they will successfully execute their plans.
- Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility and conformity to standards.
- Develop and manage deployment plans and assist in development and execution of test plan.
- Facilitate user integration and acceptance testing of supported applications.
- Assist web server administrator with application installation and validation.
- Some minimal travel by car and/or air in conjunction with local, regional and/or national travel.
Qualifications
- Self-directed requiring minimal oversight and the ability to mentor less experienced staff.
- Prior experience with large-scale organizational process improvement efforts desired.
- Understand the components involved in running a successful project.
- Strong analytical, organizational and project management skills.
- Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Knowledge of all phases of software development including requirements analysis, design, testing (integration, user, and performance), implementation and support.
- Excellent communication skills with ability to relay information well in both written and verbal form.
- Able to recognize potential assignments outside own areas of specialization and apply appropriate business technology related expertise as necessary.
- Ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
Education & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Business, Technology, or related field or equivalent combination of education and professional experience
- 2+ years related Analysis experience
- Basic SQL database knowledge and query language is preferred
About Stifel
Stifel is a more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients' money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success.
While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let's talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success.
At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off.
Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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