Job Details: Senior Business Architect / Solutions Designer

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Job Title: Senior Business Architect / Solutions Designer
Job ID: DWC178
Company: d
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: TBD
Date Posted: Apr-29-08

Data Warehouse Consultants (www.dwconsultants.com) is seeking a Senior Business Architect / Solution Designer for a client in Pittsburgh, PA.

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Writes comprehensive functional specifications from requirements documents and input from other domain and technical design sources.
• Insures accuracy, completeness, clarity and simplification of functional specifications.
• Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders for review/acceptance and compliance with requirements.
• Revises functional specifications as necessary throughout the development lifecycle.
• Provides development expertise in bridging domain requirements to developer/QA-ready functional specifications.
• Conducts analytical review meetings as required with domain experts to acquire the details needed to write functional specifications.
• Facilitates the clarification of functional specification issues as they arise during the development process.
• Creates visual models, charts, flow diagrams and other specification components that facilitate simplification and abstraction.
• Creates initial business object (entity) diagrams that can be used to initiate database design.
• Creates user interface mockups and associated behavioral rules to define navigation, validation, data relationships and trigger events.
• Defines business rules that are complete and unambiguous including supporting formulas, algorithms, data queries, process steps and decision points.
• Presents functional specifications to internal stakeholders.
• Identifies exception conditions and alternate use case paths not identified in requirements documentation.
• Provides report layouts, filters, groupings, subtotals and data mapping rules.
• Defines impact of enhancement/project to other integrated applications.
• Maintains revision history
• Defines glossary of significant terms as a component part of the functional specification.
• Insures traceability of requirements throughout the functional specification.


Basic Qualifications:
• BS/BA in computer science, informatics or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 6 or more years experience developing functional specifications for commercial software products
• Detailed understanding of business processes
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Commercial software development experience
• Knowledge of fundamental relational database design concepts
• Ability to read and interpret fundamental SQL queries
• Understanding of event-driven, object-oriented technologies
• Understanding of functional specification approaches that lead to successful technical design and test case development.
• Strong process definition skills
• Experience defining Use Cases
• Knowledge of UML concepts
• Skilled at abstracting process details from domain experts
• Skilled at analyzing and mapping complex processes
• Skilled at identifying exception conditions
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and common SDLC methodologies

*Direct candidates only, please

For immediate consideration, send your resume to info@dwconsultants.com

Location: [rss] US-PA-Pittsburgh
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
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For immediate consideration, send your resume to info@dwconsultants.com


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