Job Description

The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary As a Business Analyst at Huron, you are responsible for analyzing complex business system problems to be solved with automated systems. You will create specifications for systems to meet business requirements and provide support in identifying, evaluating, and developing systems and procedures that meet user requirements. Working under limited supervision, the Business Analyst defines specifications for product development and testing, uses development specifications to create detailed unit, integration, and acceptance test cases, executes testing, and analyzes results.

Qualifications

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Facilitate communications with product stakeholders to understand product needs and priorities
• Work with Scrum team to translate business requirements to User stories.
• Elicit business and functional requirements and prepare requirement documentation as it pertains to new products, tools or solutions.
• Recommend efficient models and workflow processes; create process flows to facilitate understanding and agreement with internal and external stakeholders using various notation (use cases, business process diagrams, workflows, swim lanes)
• Learn about a specific business need rapidly through analysis by using fit/gap analysis, feasibility studies, and business case creation
• Develop detailed expertise in a line of business
• Lead the scrum team using Agile methodology and scrum practices
• Help the product owner and development team to achieve customer satisfaction
• Prioritize requirements with stakeholders
• Work side-by-side with appropriate teams to represent the customer, set priorities when conflicts arise, and answer specific requirements questions
• Coordinate user acceptance tests, training and communication as needed
• Enable change throughout the organization
• Assist in the development and execution of best practices, techniques, business architecture governance and tools as needed by the PMO

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, business or a related field from an accredited university or institution or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst
• 3+ years of experience in an IT Role
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps Tool
• Experience working with cloud projects
• Experience working on multiple project types (i.e. commercial off the shelf, new development, and enhancements/support)
• Experience working in multiple business areas within a company
• Experience writing unambiguous, verified to a testable level requirement.
• Competent analytical skills and business acumen; analytical thinking, problem solving and quantitative abilities; detail oriented, committed to a high level of accuracy; track record of managing multiple projects concurrently
• Excellent organizational, time-management, and meeting facilitation skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks
• Proficient knowledge of key concepts and processes within the Software Development Life Cycle including Agile and Waterfall methodologies as well as process and workflow management
• Knowledge of technology networks, database, communications, internet, system interfaces, data integration, and operating systems
• Ability to adapt quickly to new and changing business and technical environments
• Advanced skills using Microsoft Excel & Visio. Basic skills/familiarity with other Microsoft business products (Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook) required
• Strong communication skills (oral and written) with a wide range of audiences (technical and non-technical, staff and managerial
• Understanding of the concepts of data and object models along with relationships and hierarchy
• Practical experience with Scrum is required

Posting Category Education

Opportunity Type Regular

Country India

Huron Consulting Group