Job Description:
Optomi, in partnership with one of our premier clients, is seeking an experienced API Business Analyst to join their team! This candidate will be responsible for working with business units to define needs and recommend IT solutions. This candidate will work with stakeholders to understand business needs and technical requirements. Experience with EDI and APIs is required; additionally, SQL experience is a must have.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Business to identify requirements and think critically about what will make it successful; write user stories that effectively communicate the Business’ requirements and that are easily consumed by software development teams.
- Attend and lead Business stakeholder meetings; provide project status reporting to management; assist with testing scenarios and validate results.
- Create deliverables such as process flows, wireframes, mockups and functional prototypes to effectively communicate design strategies and detailed interaction behaviors.
- Prepare and deliver client presentations.
- Advocate on behalf of Business to IT, and advocate on behalf of IT to Business.
- Become a Subject Matter Expert on a variety of packages and custom business.
- Go beyond just reading and understanding information, to making sense of it, and finding patterns for improvement.
- Support business applications. Troubleshoot and resolve applications issues.
Experience Required:
- 7+ years of prior experience as a Business Analyst or other IT role, such as support or development.
- BA / BS in IT, statistics, computer science, mathematics, information management, or a related field or equivalent experience.
- Strong investigative and analytical skills.
- Curious, self-motivated, independent.
- Interpersonal communication skills with the ability to work independently or as part of a team with both the Business and technology staff.
- Skilled at defining and documenting business and functional requirements for ongoing system enhancement initiatives in agile software development environments.
- Experience writing clear acceptance criteria to a testable level specifically for APIs.
- Experience with EDI file formats and other proprietary data exchange formats.
- Experience leading or participating in all Agile meetings including: sprint planning, sprint grooming, review, demo, stand-up, and retrospective sessions.
- Experience in all phases of product, software, and testing lifecycles.
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Microsoft Office experience: Word for documentation, Excel for data handling, excellent skills with Visio for diagrams, PowerPoint for presentation and Outlook for email.
- Firm understanding of relational databases, database structures and design, and data management.
- Solid SQL knowledge, experience writing investigative queries, firm understanding of joins.
