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Job Title
Business Analyst
Job Location
Kansas City
Job Type
Business Services
Country/Territory
United States
Region
The Americas
Description
The Business Analyst plays a key role in translating end user
expectations/outcomes to real design specifications. Aligns with
business stakeholders to create 3-year business capability roadmaps
that identify enterprise technology solutions that deliver value to
clients and position the firm for growth and achievement of its
strategic plan. Uses significant independent judgement in solving
problems and choosing methods of work. Mentors others on complex and
far reaching technology issues.
Key Responsibilities
Business Technology Definition & Strategy
Liaison between IT and assigned business areas on projects and
portfolio management
Attends business specific meetings (i.e. team, leadership) to
engage and understand business day to day operations, build
credibility to best guide technology solution alignment
Consult with customer to proactively identify technology solution
opportunities for unique and complex problems that have a
broad impact or significant risk to the business
Defines, prioritizes, and manages program and project initiatives
(business and IT)
Contributes to the creation of project charters, scoping documents
and other pre-approval materials for proposed projects - facilitates
through governance approval and the hand-off to the Project Manager
Accountable for facilitating, developing, and representing
functional business capability roadmaps
Solution Logical Design
Crafts approach (i.e. work sessions, scenarios) to gather
high-level and detailed design
Frames, visually depicts "logical" solutions that aid
developers, engineers in translating business needs into
viable technology plans
Completes root cause analysis and translates outcomes in business
consumable language, including translating complex and
conceptual ideas
Monitors that the solution is meeting the stakeholder's
expectationsGathers high-level business requirements and contributes
to the definition of scope during initial discovery by conducting
meetings/interviews, and facilitating large group/cross-functional
sessions with partners
Quality Control
Creates, executes testing plans to confirm requirements are met by
technology solution both in new technology projects and
requested changes that are enhancements to the existing platforms
Business Architecture
Works cross-team to establish enterprise process management
guidelines and framework
Ensures business requirements captured during a project are moved
into the enterprise process model (EPM) for leverage in future
enhancements, training, or support work
Acts as a consultant to technologists who are evaluating
changing/replacing business area technology
Develops/manages company end use-cases to help with organizational
change management and unique technology solutions (for example: such
as desktop images)
Establishes business integration map that links one business
area's processes to another tactically, to provide visibility
to impacts when 1 area of business is changed
Education
Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related
degree and 2-8+ years of related experience, depending upon level.
Required Experience
0-8 years of relevant technology and business roles to include
Business Analyst/consultant, trainer, or communications specialist
Some experience facilitating design sessions
Participated in, and documented process mapping sessions
Clyde & Co shifted to virtual work for the majority of our
lawyers and business services team with the global outbreak of
Covid-19. This precaution was taken to help protect our people,
clients and communities. It is likely that this role will start
virtually while the firm continues to evaluate the situation.
-Principals Only-
We offer a rewarding work environment that supports professional
growth and opportunities. We value diversity in our work place and
it is the policy of the Firm to recruit, hire, promote, reassign,
compensate and train highly qualified persons without regard to
race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression,
religion, national origin, age, disability or any other basis
protected by applicable law.
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