Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst
American Public Education, Inc.

American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) is seeking a Senior Business Analyst with strong analytical and product management skills to proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers across the enterprise. The candidate will display a deeper understanding of the role and business analysis tasks and techniques and demonstrate effective team leadership behaviors. The Senior Business Analyst establishes and maintains liaison relationships with business partners across the enterprise in order to provide effective technical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes business practices throughout APEI or its affiliated departments and utilize this information to influence system enhancements and maintenance requests.
• Analyzes business processes to define the functional and detailed requirements and works with the technology development team to design specifications and approach.
• Understands, analyzes, interprets, and documents process workows.
• Analyzes information to include performance data, metrics, and process interdependencies to conceptualize and dene operational problems.
• Meets with the department contacts and reporting team to create functional design documents for new reports providing data mapping and report layout specifications.
• Leads discovery sessions, publish meeting minutes, and ensures all action items are completed in the timeframe set.
• Consult with business process owners to obtain additional information during system development in order to evaluate an alternative approach.
• Conduct system demonstrations and coordinate the creation of user guides.
• Assist the project team and key stakeholders in the review of test cases.
• Prepare User Acceptance Testing (UAT) documentation and lead the user acceptance testing effort with the responsible business process owner.
• Monitor and document post-implementation problems and revision requests.
• Performs other duties assigned

Requirements:

• Seven to ten years of experience working in Information Technology as a Business Analyst.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum development methodology as well as more formalized waterfall-style Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Experience with design/development of web applications and SaaS products.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products, especially SharePoint, Project, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Ability to use current and contemporary business tools and methodologies. Experience with project management processes and tools preferred. Attention to detail and the ability to self-motivate.
• Proven leadership ability, with strong interpersonal skills.
• Ability to set and manage priorities and projects with tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to articulate ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Superior analytical, evaluation, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional service orientation.
• Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration or related field required; advanced degree preferred.

About Us:

Online, on campus and in the workplace, we provide higher education and training to our country's heroes - military service members, veterans, nurses, government employees, and motivated professionals that want to make a difference. American Public Education, Inc. educates service-minded students, ranging from the military, public service, federal agencies, and nursing communities, through American Public University System (APUS), Hondros College of Nursing (HCON), Rasmussen University and Graduate School USA (GSUSA).

It is the policy of American Public Education, Inc. (APEI) to afford equal opportunity to all qualified persons. We treat all qualified individuals equally as to their recruitment, hiring, assignments, advancements, compensation, and all other terms and conditions of employment. American Public Education, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, or physical, mental, or sensory disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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