Business Analyst Job Posting

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Job Title:	Business Analyst - ONLY LOCAL TO JACKSONVILLE
Company:	TEAM International
Position Type:	Contract to Hire
Pay Rate:	Competitive
Date Posted:	Oct-29-09

We are in urgent need of qualified Business Analysts to fill 3 months contract-to-hire position located in Jacksonville, FL.

NOTE: The manager will consider ONLY candidates who reside within 100 miles from Jacksonville.

Job Description:
* To elicit, analyze, validate, specify, verify, and manage the real needs of the project stakeholders, including customers and end users.
* To perform business analysis including workflow analysis, business information requirements and models.
* To help define scope and objectives.
* To break down high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements and quality, specified in an appropriate level of detail suitable for use by those must base their work on the requirements.
* To write requirements specifications according to templates, using natural language simply, clearly, unambiguously, and concisely.
* To work under general direction and to work closely with applications development staff and business staff to advice on complex business issues.

Qualifications:
* Interviewing skills - the ability to talk with individuals and groups about their needs and ask the right questions to gather the essential requirements information.
* Listening skills - the ability to understand what people say.
* Analytical skills - the ability to critically evaluate the information from multiple sources and breakdown high-level information into details.
* Observational skills - the ability to validate data obtained via other techniques and expose new areas for elicitation.
* Writing skills - the ability to communicate information effectively to customers, managers, and technical staff.
* Organizational skills - the ability to work with the vast array of information gathered during analysis and to cope with rapidly changing information.
* Interpersonal skills - the ability to help set priorities.
* Modeling skills - the ability to represent requirements information in graphical forms that enhance textual representations.
* An understanding of contemporary requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, verification, and management practices and the ability to apply them in practice; familiarity with requirements engineering books and resources.
* An understanding of how to practice requirements engineering according to several software development life cycles in a team environment
* Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise software products are positioned and developed
* Application domain knowledge is a plus, to have credibility with user representatives and be able to work effectively with them
* Mentor business analysts on team
* Possesses expertise in the business unit(s) they support, as well as, an understanding of the IT organization*s systems capabilities
* Proficient at Microsoft Excel, Word and Visio
* Support testing and implementation phase as a SME
* College degree or equivalent certification, minimum 5 years experience as a business analyst.
* Default experience a plus.

Location:	US-FL-Jacksonville
Telecommute:	No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name:	Roman
Contact Phone:
Contact Email:	romank@teaminternational.com

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