Position Title: Business Analyst
Duration: 6mo contract to hire
Schedule: Remote
Location: Kansas City, MO region
National Travel: About 2 – 3 times per year once converted to a Full Time Employee
Start Date: November 4th or ASAP
Experience:
· Bachelor's degree with 5 - 7 years of position related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
· Experience with all phases of development life cycle, including analysis, design, construction, implementation, and following it through to the evolution phases.
· Experience working in an Agile environment preferred.
· Experience serving in a project manager role (or dual business analyst / project manager role) for small- to medium-sized projects preferred.
· Insurance industry experience preferred.
Tools:
· Jira and/or Jira Cloud – required
· Targetprocess – preferred or willing to learn the software
Responsibilities:
· Ability to work independently.
· Must be proactive and demonstrate initiative.
· Demonstrates excellent skills for gathering, analyzing, and validating requirements through interviews, observation, facilitation, and other proven business analysis techniques.
· Demonstrates excellent ability to understand the ‘big picture’ and how systems and applications affect, and are affected by, other applications and initiatives.
· Ability to express findings and recommendations clearly to differing levels of management, both verbally and in writing, in a professional manner.
· Knowledge of and ability to modify business intelligence visualization tools.
· Must be able to write and interpret SQL queries.
· Must be able to manipulate and analyze data using SAS.
· Must be able to use Microsoft 365, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
· Demonstrates ability for technical and creative problem solving.
· Familiarity with or ability to learn diagramming and modeling techniques and software.
· Ability to work collaboratively and to negotiate successful solutions.
· Ability to learn internally developed and vendor-developed web-based, client/server, and stand-alone PC applications.
· Ability to train and mentor staff.
Day-in-the-life of your team:
· Assist Product Owner and partner BA in maintaining a well-prioritized and refined backlog.
· Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders and team to ensure clear and detailed user stories, including mockups, as necessary.
· Contribute to effective team PI and sprint planning.
· Help drive and support delivery of assigned single service and new state implementations.
· Serve as point of contact for identifying and communicating customer needs to Project Manager and/or Product Manager.
· Act as a liaison between states and the internal team to ensure clear and consistent communication.
· Organize and lead meetings to discuss business needs, ensuring all internal and external stakeholders are aligned.
· Assist in data testing for assigned implementation projects.
· Assist Production Support in troubleshooting and resolving issues encountered in Production, as needed.
Certifications:
One or more of the following (or similar) certifications preferred:
· SAFe: POPM (SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager), SP (SAFe Practitioner)
· Scrum Alliance: CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner)
Travel:
· Must be able and willing to travel to locations throughout the United States and with such frequency as necessary to meet the needs of this position and the Association.
About Us
ECCO Select is certified as a Women-owned, Minority-owned, Small Business Enterprise. We are a talent acquisition and advisory consulting company, specializing in providing people, process, and technology solutions for our clients’ needs. ECCO Select has experience in assisting our commercial and government clients successfully manage projects and programs that transform their business operations through a variety of IT solutions. We’re the talent behind the technology. To find out more about ECCO visit www.eccoselect.com.
Our Commitment
We would love to have you join our team! ECCO Select is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. ECCO Select’s policy is to provide equal opportunity to all people without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, veteran status, age, disability, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other legally protected category.
Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law
This Organization Participates in E-Verify
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- Can you work W2 without current or future sponsorship?
- What ERP projects have you managed?
- Are you knowledgeable with SAS, SQL, and business intelligence visualization tools?
- Have you managed small to medium size projects?
- Are you currently in the Kansas City, MO region?
- Do you have any experience working on Insurance industry projects?
Work Location: Remote
