Senior Business Analyst

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Moss is a national privately held construction firm providing innovative solutions resulting in award-winning projects. With regional offices across the United States, Moss focuses on construction management, solar EPC, design-build, and public-private partnerships. The company’s diverse portfolio encompasses a wide range of sectors, including luxury high-rise residential, landmark mixed-use developments, hospitality, K-12 and higher education, justice, solar energy and battery storage, and sports. Moss is ranked by Engineering News-Record as one of the nation’s top 65 general contractors, and the 3rd ranked solar EPC nationwide. Moss prides itself on a strong entrepreneurial culture that honors safety, quality, client engagement and employee development. Its employees consistently rank Moss as one of the best places to work.

POSITION SCOPE AND ORGANIZATIONAL IMPACT

Moss' Senior Business Analyst plays a pivotal role in ensuring that the Digital Transformation (DT) team understands business requirements for collaboration by creating a strategic relationship between the business and the DT team. The Senior Business Analyst must have strong technical skills coupled with business process and systems experience. They will elicit, analyze, specify, and validate the business needs of project stakeholders. This includes interviewing stakeholders, as well as gathering and compiling user requirements to design solutions for the organization’s various business processes. The Senior Business Analyst will also apply proven communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills to help support the development process when custom development is needed, and to ensure that project deliverables are met according to specifications.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in designing technology solutions to enable business requirements and processes
• Maintain a sufficient level of expertise with the organization’s current platform(s)
• Maintain current knowledge of the rapidly changing technology market
• Engage with project managers and project stakeholders to develop project scope and vision for all DT related projects
• Clearly identify project stakeholders and establish user classes, as well as their characteristics
• Conduct interviews to gather user requirements via workshops, questionnaires, surveys, site visits, workflow storyboards, use cases, scenarios, and other methods
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics
• Maintain a catalog of common patterns or issues to be reused in new solution designs
• Assist in conducting research on software, products, and services to meet agreed upon requirements and to support purchasing efforts
• Participate in the QA of purchased solutions to ensure features and functions have been enabled and optimized
• Analyze and verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards
• Develop and use standard templates to write requirements specifications accurately and concisely
• Translate conceptual user requirements into functional requirements in a clear manner that is comprehensible to developers/project team
• Where applicable, develop prototypes of interfaces and attributes based on the user requirements
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team, using new and existing processes
• Develop and conduct peer reviews of the business requirements to ensure that requirement specifications are correctly interpreted
• Assist with the interpretation of user requirements into feasible options and communicate these back to the business stakeholders
• Manage and track the status of requirements throughout the collaboration project lifecycle; enforce and redefine as necessary
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications of business requirements – verbally or through written documentation – to project managers, sponsors, and other stakeholders so that issues and solutions are understood
• Provide guidance and/or instruction to junior staff members
• Perform other related duties as assigned

EDUCATION AND WORK EXPERIENCE

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in the field of business administration, computer science, engineering, finance, or information systems and two to five years related work experience
• Training or experience in business-project management
• Four to six years of experience in building and specifying mission-critical business applications, and at least one year with collaboration technologies
• A firm grasp of technologies
• Demonstrated knowledge of the organization’s core business process and operations
• Proven experience with business and technical requirements analysis, elicitation, modeling, verification, and methodology development
• Experience overseeing the design, development, and implementation of software and hardware solutions, systems, or products
• Ability to create systematic and consistent requirements specifications in both technical and user-friendly language
• Ability to apply statistical and other research methods to systems issues and products as required
• Clear understanding of product management and market placement
• Demonstrated project management skills and project management software skills, including planning, organizing, and managing resources
• Understanding of application development and software development lifecycle concepts for solutions requiring custom development
• Excellent understanding of the organization’s goals and objectives

JOB TITLE: SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST

JOB LOCATION: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL

CLASSIFICATION: FULL TIME – EXEMPT – SALARIED

REPORTS TO: SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER