Bank Of America Business Analyst 

United States, Texas, Plano 

690218121

This position is for an experienced Business Analyst on tech side with a minimum of 9+ years in technology projects, who will act as the primary interface with business partners, stake holders, solution architects, and cross-organizational technology teams. The Analyst will analyze current processes and systems, assessing the business model and its integration with technology. The Analyst is responsible for working with stakeholders to understand their needs, analyze problems, and elicit requirements/stories from a business team. Also gather and apply technical knowledge in use cases, process models, technical requirements, acceptance criteria and more into JIRA Epics & Stories, spikes and asks that can be executed by the team. Working closely with the Development Team to refine and estimate the story requirements. The Analyst will be part of an Agile Scrum team, collaborating with the Product Owner(s) to evaluate, the Features, write effective user stories, document business rules and with the Developers to review technical design, identify enablers and dependencies. The resource must be able to be able to act as the communication hub between tech teams and business partners/product owners.

• Bank of America, EET domain experience required.
• Must have excellent analytical skills and at least 9 years of experience as a Business Analyst, working closely with business partners to elicit requirements, document process flows, identify risks and mitigation and participate in definition of strategies for the technical solution.
• Experience documenting detailed functional and technical requirements for business requirements in JIRA as any Issue Type.
• Ability to communicate and work with developers to ensure that acceptance criteria for the user stories are understood and applied.
• Provides support to Testing to clarify requirements, to ensure that test plans and scripts satisfy the requirements and determine whether a defect is a new requirement, or truly a defect.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, and ability to facilitate discussions, conduct presentations and deliver technical requirements.
• Self-motivated with ‘growth mindset’ and requires minimal supervision.
• Good problem solving and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to analyze existing capabilities and identify gaps and opportunities.
• Working knowledge of agile tools such as JIRA/Confluence and Jira align is a plus.
• Knowledge of project managements principles, practices, techniques and tools (Waterfall & Agile).
• Must have technology project background and understand full SDLC.
• Demonstrates initiative, is conscientious and provides complete follow-through on areas of responsibility.
• Strong team player with superior time management skills.
• Prepare graphics, workflows and illustrations to elaborate on or complement technical design writing.
• Must be an intermediate level or above user of Office suite including Visio.
• Prior BofA Experience preferred.
• Must have change Management exposure and willingness to learn & comply with Bank’s Enterprise Change Management and Release Management processes.

Required Skills:

• 7+ years practical agile experience.
• Experience in being a Product Owner OR working closely with Product Owner to define business needs.
• Business Analyst experience in converting business need into epics and stories.
• Experience refining business processes and testing.
• Extremely strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work with both technical and business team members with ease.
• Strong JIRA, Network Relationship Building.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with SQL and other data tools.
• Horizon toolset familiarity.
• Change Management familiarity.