Job Title : Business Analyst
Location : Newark, DE (Hybrid) – 3 days a week onsite
Start Date : 2025
Type : Contract to Hire
Position Summary : We are seeking an Analyst to join our Client’s team. This role involves working closely with IT, business, and tech partners to define and deliver solutions that meet business objectives. The ideal candidate will combine business and technology skills with strong leadership, communication, negotiation, facilitation, and presentation abilities.
Key Responsibilities :
- Collaborate with IT and business partners to deliver solutions
- Act as a servant leader and facilitator between business/dev partners and IT
- Guide the team to be self-organized and remove impediments
- Lead planning, analyzing, validating, and managing requirements, business processes, high-level solution design, test case design, and implementation planning & support
- May lead other IT projects as needed
Top 3 Requirements :
- Personality/Soft Skills : Must be able to interface primarily with tech teams to get requirements and set expectations. Must understand technology and processes and be able to speak on them well.
- Jira : Proficiency in using Jira.
- Scrum Experience : Experience facilitating scrum ceremonies and performing BA work.
Additional Requirements :
- Prior experience in a highly regulated environment
- Familiarity with Office suite
Nice to Have :
- Experience with Confluence
- Technical background
Required Skills :
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (4 years experience in a related field)
- Experience working on multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong understanding of agile and waterfall methodologies
- Experience with agile tools like JIRA/Confluence
- Good time management skills
- Effective communication at different organizational levels
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities
- Ability to assess and improve team scrum maturity
- Enforce best practices for the BA team
- Fluent in technology and project/software development methodologies
- Strong presentation, facilitation, interview, and workshop skills
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation, and conflict-management skills
- Intermediate skills in Word and Excel