Lead IT Business Analyst

What you’ll do:

Job Summary

The Business Analyst serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and the IT function, leveraging business analysis tools and techniques used to understand the structure, policies and operations of an organization, and to recommend solutions that enable the organization to achieve its goals.

The Business Analyst is responsible for business analysis planning; requirements elicitation; requirements management and communication; requirements analysis and validation for medium and large projects; estimation of BA work and meeting estimates; testing scenarios and script development; and guiding customers through user acceptance testing.

This position will work on projects that deploy and integrate solutions across the engineering portfolio, including: Portfolio/Project Management, PLM, CAD, Design Simulation, Design Automation, MES, ERP, Data Lake, and other engineering-adjacent applications to enable unified Digital Threads.

Job Responsibilities

• Business Analysis Planning: Assist in planning the business analysis approach, deliverables, and planning estimates for medium projects (runners, minor and major repeaters)
• Requirements Elicitation: Conduct requirements gathering activities (brainstorming, focus groups, interviews, observation, prototyping, workshops), with guidance as needed, and document the results requirements for small or runner projects.
• Requirements Management & Communication: Assist in ensuring that requirements meet the business objectives and solution design; and ensure requirements are communicated and presented in a format that are understandable to stakeholders, including solutions designers and developers.
• Requirements Analysis: Assist in analyzing, prioritizing and organizing requirements to ensure efforts focus on the most critical needs, and model requirements to demonstrate process and/or solution function.
• Validation: Coordinate the approach and development of use cases and test scenarios with the customer to ensure user acceptance testing is complete and validates that project requirements have been achieved.

Functional Support: Apply application experience to provide end user training and direct application testing for the solutions being deployed

Design Support: Work with system and solution architecture to confirm solutions that meet customer requirements. Define those proposed solutions into functional design proposals for development and end-user review.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum of 3-year IT or relevant work experience
• Working knowledge of foundational engineering process including New Product Development (NPD/NPI) and Change Management
• Familiarity with core engineering digital design applications including MCAD, ECAD, and design simulation
• No relocation is provided for this position. Candidates must reside within a 50-mile radius of Beachwood, OH: Moon Township, PA: Raleigh, NC: Galesburg, MI: Menomonee Falls, WI or Houston, TX location in the United States to be considered for this opportunity
• Candidate must be authorized to work in the United States on a continuous basis without company sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications:

• DevOps tools (e.g. Jira)

• PPM tools (e.g. Clarity ProPM)

• Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)

• Product Lifecycle Management (e.g. Dassault Enovia and/or 3DExperience)

• Working knowledge of Export Control data management practices and requirements

• Engineering Requirements Management (e.g. Doors, JAMA)

• Artificial Intelligence

• Data Analytics and dashboards (e.g. PowerBI)

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal. This position will often work with other business analysts, project managers and business teams on a regular basis.
• Good team-oriented interpersonal skills. Assists with facilitation sessions, may require some coaching on how to lead and influence others, and to effectively interface and work with a wide variety of people.
• Good team player, self-motivated and committed with an ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.